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hoppyhoppy2 on Aug 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: NvChad: An attempt to make Neovim TUI as functiona...

Although at first I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt by thinking maybe it was made by someone named Chad or whatever, the name of their newest release ("MegaChad") points toward it being a reference to Chad Thundercock, a fictional character in a series of 4chan memes popular among members of the "incel" community. Probably not something a "serious" or "professional" project would choose.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/virgin-vs-chad

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gigachad

ethelward on Aug 19, 2021 [–]

Yeah, it has left the 4chan community and entered the mainstream quite some time ago; e.g. here (https://old.reddit.com/r/virginvschad/), and it even has derivatives now (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/swole-doge-vs-cheems).

cuddlybacon on Aug 19, 2021 | [–]

Yeah. It is general internet culture at this point.

hkt on Aug 20, 2021 | | [–]

Still not a great look though.

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