Dickle was just an example. Why not your usernames or something.?

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Probably most (all?) people "come up with" new ways to use language, and not infrequently. Whether something takes hold and goes into common usage or not depends on a lot of factors like:

  • How well it "rolls off the tongue".
  • Whether someone famous popularizes it.
  • Random chance.
  • Whether it's related to an item of popular media or other sort of trend/fad.
  • Whether certain powerful ideologies or agendas artificially try to boost its popularity for whatever reason.
  • Streisand effect.

"Rizz" certainly embodies the first one. "Maxxing" seems like a second-to-last bullet thing to me, as do "alpha", "beta", and "sigma". I don't know enough about the history of the word "based" to have an opinion.

And I'd say the line between "internet jargon" and other slang/jargon/terminology/whatever is pretty fuzzy. Like, does "enshittification" count? How about "woke"? Or "slop"?

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