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[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

What is a chud? I'm guessing it's a play on the term Chad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think a tumblr post popularized it... Basically it went something like "I don't like insulting people by saying they live in a basement, so I use CHUD (Cannablistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, after the horror movie of the same name) instead"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

there's cinema chuds and everyone else chuds. cinematic chuds are nyc sewer dwelling C.H.U.D.s and appear on the surface to kidnap and feed. everyone else - chuds has always meant racist fuckwits.

it's the bucket that holds your racist hicks, your KKK organized racist fucktype, capitalist-fetish racists, everything from someone who frequently worries about about miscegenation to the mormons who thought black people didn't get into heaven until the 70s when they decided god sent word that, well, maybe some. it's a big, handy bucket.

[–] Revan343 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If the words are related, the relationship is the other way around; the earliest urban dictionary definition is from 2003

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

the movie CHUD came out in 1984

[–] Revan343 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but I don't know if the word was common slang between then and the urban dictionary entry, whereas I definitely saw it in the mid-late aughts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

true, but I can attest that people were saying it in the 90s. It wasn't as popular, but chud was an insult when I was in high school, in the 90s.