>The evolution of "cuck" shows that different far-right groups are learning the same language
>I first heard the word “cuck” in mid 2015, when a speech I gave at the Oxford Union on the subject of No Platform policies went up on YouTube. Among the numerous comments labelling me a “social justice warrior”, there were a few calling me a cuck. At the time I thought little of it, assuming it was some MRA-type buzzword that you would only ever encounter if you were the kind of masochist who reads YouTube comment sections about yourself.
>I was, of course, wrong, and now it’s everywhere. A lot of mainstream outlets suggest it stands for “cuckservative”, a term used by alt-right types to abuse traditional conservatives, implying that they’re being cuckolded by allowing their countries (and their wives) to be screwed both physically and metaphorically by foreign interlopers. But it didn’t start that way. Working as part of the Alt-Right Open Intelligence Initiative at the University of Amsterdam, I dove deep into the bowels of Reddit so that I could tell the story of where cuck came from, what it means, what it can tell us about the people who use it, and maybe even how they can be beaten.
>We’ll likely never know precisely when “cuckold” first became “cuck”. It originated in 2014, in the bowels of the controversial online bulletin board Sup Forums, and in the absence of an intrepid data adventurer capable of scraping the site’s logs without losing the will to live, that’s probably the most we can say. “Cuckold” began to be used on Reddit in places like the virulently misogynistic TheRedPill, where it was used to insult men foolish enough to trust women (who then inevitably cheat on them and make them raise the children of other men). It probably emerged in its shortened form in late 2014. This is when the “it’s-actually-about-ethics-in-games-journalism-not-rabid-sexism” GamerGate movement, which targeted women in the video game industry, was kicked off Sup Forums. GamerGate found a new home on Reddit at /r/KotakuInAction.
>GamerGaters, primarily angry adolescent (and post-adolescent) boys led by cynical neo-reactionaries like Milo Yiannopoulos, used “cuck” to refer to the ex-boyfriend of games journalist Zoe Quinn, who was the focus of much of their ire (she had the audacity to be female and develop a game). From there cuck evolved into a catch-all way of abusing men who might be otherwise referred to as “betas”. At the same time, it became popular in explicitly racist subreddits, and it picked up racial connotations as a result. You can see the time progression in the graph below.
>The rise of "cuck", though, is most obviously connected to the rise of Donald Trump. The subreddit The_Donald made it big after Trump won the New Hampshire primary in February 2016. It was then that use of the word cuck exploded, both within The_Donald and elsewhere, as you can see in the graph below.
John Hall
>Before The_Donald, misogynists, hipster racists and other alt right commentators existed on the peripheries. The_Donald has provided a means for all of these groups to come together, and they found in “cuck” a term that encapsulated everything they hate. It’s all things to all bigots: a racially-tinged term of abuse, a slur against men who trust women, a label for conservatives who aren’t conservative in the right ways, and an Islamophobic dog-whistle that propagates the narrative that Europe and America as a whole are being screwed by Muslims.
>With each Trump victory, cuck gained linguistic currency in The_Donald. From there, it migrated to other communities on Reddit. While it might have once been possible to distinguish out-and-out white supremacists from ironic Nazis, now the different groups were learning the same language.
>There is a solution to these extreme subreddits: ban them. When /r/CoonTown, the successor to other racist subreddits, was banned in August 2015, the use of “cuck” decreased. The word never quite recovered its original racist connotations.
>It’s time to take Reddit back. It’s all too easy for its administrators to sit on their hands and say they’re facilitating freedom of speech, but we know that’s nonsense. Allowing groups like this to exist allows their hatred to spread. The_Donald has pushed over and over to get its content to the front page of Reddit, so that new unsuspecting users see it when they come to the site and get drawn in. This is a simple choice. Reddit needs to act now, and stop providing a fermenting vat for hatred.
How do we stop the rise of cuckod-shaming, Sup Forums?
Cooper Hall
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Ethan Roberts
>Working as part of the Alt-Right Open Intelligence Initiative at the University of Amsterdam, I dove deep into the bowels of Reddit so that I could tell the story of where cuck came from, what it means, what it can tell us about the people who use it, and maybe even how they can be beaten.
makes you wonder if all science that's not math/physics/chemistry/biology is just straight up bullshit
Alexander Martin
Is this person even real? He looks like a robot
Aaron Green
Wasn't part of the start of cuck because Moot got cucked?
Nathan Kelly
>MRA-type buzzword
Hunter Gomez
they say the word cuck and cuckhold in the fucking simpsons for fucks sake, sjw's have literally become the pro-degenerate morality police, remember when people were trying to censor the simpsons for being too edgy?? the left has become these faggots
Gavin Wright
The word cuck comes from the breeding habits of the cuckoo bird. How are you people so ignorant? Why is your understanding of things limited to the title of porn categories?
a cuck asks for more censorship on (((reddit))) in order to stop being called a cuck. move along.
Jeremiah Campbell
>It originated in 2014, in the bowels of the controversial online bulletin board Sup Forums, and in the absence of an intrepid data adventurer capable of scraping the site’s logs without losing the will to live, that’s probably the most we can say. Just to be clear, it came from a bunch of 2010 (or so) articles on vice etc. promoting it as "the intellectual sex fetish." It became a go-to word not just because the whole thing was pretentious and delusional, but because it basically the emperors new clothes - it leaned FAR too hard on peoples willingness to not laugh at the obviously pathetic. The whole mindset of "I lie to myself to feel less pathetic so obviously others will believe me too" suddenly had a name: Cuck.
Julian Hernandez
>Alt-Right Open Intelligence Initiative
Ayden Murphy
Cuck predates the CEO of Troll Inc.'s treachery. It's been used as an insult for a while, especially on Sup Forums with all the cuckold spam that pervaded /new/ and early Sup Forums and to shit on Louis CK. But it got big with Sup Forums harbor, and m00t being outed as one.
"Cuckservative" also predates the whole thing, but it really only got popular in 2015 to describe weak Republicans like Jeb!
Blake Sullivan
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Josiah Moore
The (((establishment))) takes what they've started describing as the "alt-right" very seriously.
Thomas Phillips
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Jacob Mitchell
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Easton Gray
there can be NO alternatives there is only ONE media OUR media and if you want to change that you're gonna have to come through ME
but seriously we can't let these grassroots journalists get their hands on the truth about the nuclear codes
>tfw they expand NATO's propaganda division and it does nothing
