https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement

Oh, you know, just in about half the widely publicized instances of right wing extremists committing hate crimes or domestic terrorism or what not since about 2019.

The incidents linked on this wiki page are far from exhaustive.

As wiki states, the term originated over a decade ago as basically a joke format, but was used with increasing regularity by right wing extremists in the lead up to and during the trump administration.

I guess you haven’t watched much news in the last decade?

Every single GTA V or RDR2 centric discord I have ever been on is full of people who use the vernacular I described, to the point they will mock and then ban you for questioning it, as if theyve always been right.

Its possible I’ve just had extremely bad luck.

Its also possible that these people are primarily console players who just got computers to play only Rockstar games, I guess if you had 0 experience with PC gaming and 100% with consoles, it could explain only hearing the term modding as something illegal or cheating.

Or it could be along the lines that you’ve said: Younger generations just read official documentation and have near 0 knowledge of anything that came before?

Thank you, this clears up nothing rofl.

sigh

that is entirely possible.

wouldnt be the first time a totally contextually misunderstood term was more or less accidentally appropriated to have some new meaning, making its widespread adoption and widespread lack of its contextual origination even more infuriating.

This is kind of but not really similar:

What in the fuck is up with the PC GTA/RDR community using the term ‘mod’ incorrectly?

In every other context of video gaming ever, a mod is something that adds or changes a single player game, or a modded multiplayer game basically includes the server set of mods that all behave equally for all players.

But in Rockstar Online communities, modding means to be using a cheat engine. Something like what would be called hacks or aimbots or teleporting yourself or others or spawning anything on command, some other kind of client side exploitation software.

I have no idea how this happened or is the norm.

In any other game ever, a ‘modded’ server would mean oh we tweaked some global vars and we added these weapons and this vehicle and this new mechanic.

In Rockstar games a modded server is not a term that makes sense to these people because modding is cheating and only players can run mods… even though you can absolutely run an emulated private server through RedM/FiveM, and you can absolutely (and basically have to) run server side mods (as a barebones setup will be lacking MANY core and ancillary gameplay functions).

It fucking baffles me.

Basically, while the permaonline 00’s highschoolers that went to college were obsessing over MBTI profiles, the permaonline 00’s highschoolers that did not, or barely graduated, they wanted to seem smart and tried to do the same thing, but fucked it up due to lack of general knowledge.

And of course, the dumb version prevailed amongst the lay people because that is basically what always happens.

I have two questions:

Can Sigma be gyatt?

Can Sigma have skibidi?

I am 100% certain the people that came up with Omega picked Omega due to ‘Alpha and Omega’.

I posted a big blurb on this elsewhere in the thread but basically, Gamma Delta and Omega all were introduced after Alpha and Beta was seen as too simplistic.

At the time, Omegas were meant to be… even more manly than Alphas because they didn’t give a fuck.

The be all, end all, of male archetypes.

This did not work as the power creep continued with Sigmas.

At this point I await the addition of Tau Psi Rho and Epsilon males. Basically because any of those greek letters sound cooler than ‘Zeta’.

So, to my knowledge, here is how this went.

They took the disproven wolf analogy literally and resulted in Alphas and Betas.

Alphas are basically confident, attractive, and charismatic. Alphas get and say what they want.

Betas basically lack at least 2 of these attributes. Betas were also initially ‘nice guys’ before that term got memed into oblivion, ie, they would be negotiable, willing to accept compromise.

Basically Alphas are bad boy / jocks and Betas are shy but polite nerds.

And for a while this permeated.

At some point, the communities using these terms more or less realized they were nearly all, in actuality, Betas.

Then, Gamma Delta and Omega all came about in roughly the same time, and the system was reworked.

Alpha: Confident Successful Leader

Beta: Cooperative Loyal Subservient

Gamma: More Confident than Alphas, but doesn’t care to lead groups, therefore is aloof / adventurous.

Delta: Basically ‘Enlightened Loner’. Someone who isn’t interested in much socializing and has little or no outward personal connections. (Basically a nice way of framing being a NEET or hikikomori, a cope)

Omega: Someone who is so above all this nonsense they don’t give a fuck, because they are so smart and successful without anyone’s help.

Next we got Sigmas: Somehow even more OP than Omegas, Sigma males are intelligent, capable of manipulating any social hierarchy to their own ends, capable of doing basically anything but they are so cool they just do that shit when they feel like it and then vanish when bored. Almost every video about a Sigma Male will show John Wick.

As you say, sigmas came about within around 6 months of the term incel and incel communities / identity becoming decently established in internet culture. So yeah, this is an even harder cope than Deltas, as theyre now all acting like they could absolutely do x if I wanted to, I just don’t feel like it.

Finally we now apparently have Zetas.

Zetas are apparently somehow even more OP than Sigmas, being a kind of hybrid of Alphas and Sigmas. Its something like… I am a highly conventionally successful person and am very skilled and talented and clever but whoo boy do I get tired of social interactions some times.

(In reality, this is basically anyone who has held down a decent job for a few years and is quite egotistical, but not constantly assertive or boastful).

Zetas are fairly new and still being actively reworked.

I think the idea of a Zeta Male can best be explained by the number of previously but no longer successful tech bros being laid off or fired ot divorced recently.

So basically its TechLead and people like him doing fanfiction of themselves.

So… Alphas, Betas and Zetas are very social. Deltas are not, Sigmas and Gammas are social occasionally and Omegas hate socializing but do it anyway.

Basically this shit reads like someone who has only watched action movies attempting to develop character archetypes, and that is largely because so much of this just is directly based off of action movies from the 80s onward and boys and men trying to find their favorite analogues.

Its wild to me that there is general knowledge of the term ‘Boogaloo Boys’, but … even amongst left wingers who purport to study the movement … somehow very few people seem to actually know its origin, which is of course a stupid 4chan joke turned into a meme taken waaaaay too seriously.

Its literally just the (thing happening again): Electric Boogaloo joke, in this case the recurring thing being ‘Civil War’.

Which itself is a joke that is based on a laughably bad and obscure movie from 1984, Breakin’2: Electric Boogaloo, a sequel to a movie about break dancing.

I remember just casually being able to use (thing 2): Electric Boogaloo as a joke amongst other nerds for any topic a decade ago, and now you can’t say Boogaloo because edgelords decided to actually try it so if you use the term around a ‘political’ zoomer or alpha, they think youre a terrorist.

Edit: More context!

Hobby Lobby is a large chain of huge arts and crafts stores, mainly. They mostly sell a whole bunch of obnoxious Live Laugh Love signs, candles, other stupid kitschy crap that stereotypically adorn middle aged overweight christian wive’s homes.

If memory serves, in many states they made it so their company provided healthcare plan does not cover abortions and other healthcare related to women’s reproductive/sexual health, like contraception.

And that was before the Supreme Court ruling a few years back overturning Roe v Wade.

Beyond that, they are rather notorious for being led by evangelical christians.

Now normally you think that means great, can’t get hired if you have a tattoo or piercing or colored hair or are gender nonconforming.

In hobby lobby’s case, basically yes, and, also they paid to smuggle thousands of ancient cuneiform tablets out of Iraq.

Not long after the 2003 invasion, Baghdad’s main museum was ransacked, and some years later, hobby lobby higher ups (family owned business hyuck hyuck) paid for them to be shipped to Turkiye, where they were discovered with false documentation.

Apparently they wanted them for their private collection, though with that many, you’d need a small museum… literally criminal cultural appropriation.

Oh no, is this a medieval era version of Soviet minedogs with cats?