‘Yeah, I’m based.’

【最近気になった英語】based adj. 我が道を行く

日本がwokeなど全く『知らんがな』することに対して、basedと言っている。

— buvery (@buvery) February 2, 2021

 

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HeighwayDragon

7 years ago

“Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, ‘You’re based.’ They’d use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, ‘Yeah, I’m based.’ I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.” ~Lil. B, BASED GOD

WHAT DOES BASED MEAN?

Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger.

Based has been appropriated by the alt-right online as a general term of praise, as if "un-woke."

うんっ・・・・勉強になりました。