The hacker known as “4chan”

Most new words start in socially isolated communities and radiate outward as those outside the community are exposed. Generally this also causes a loss of original context that can lead to a drift in or loss of meaning from the original use in its origin community.

Both based and maxxing come from the alt-right / incel community originally, I believe.

Linguistics Nerd on YouTube has good videos on the origin of many modern slang words.

This guy just pulled a classic Dickle. What a maroon.

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Infinite monkeys and typewriters

Eventually someone's gonna say something at the right time and it'll become a meme

It's basically random

This answer is so established that even SNL did a bit on it. https://youtu.be/dw0ifECyfPI

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"?

A slang word also needs a bit of je ne sais quoi. Like it needs to tickle the brain right when you say it.

A country dance festival in Russia is called a Putinanny

Why not my username actually?

Mostly Imageboards, at least the ones i see. I think the word maxxing was used first in incel communities.

Dickle is where you tickle a dick. A dick tickle, if you will.

Vapid tiktok famewhores.

You can see from the 'maxxing' [sic] term, since it's spelled wrong. We've had "maxing out" for decades , but 20yo barbies couldn't know that.

That's why we downvote that one, for instance, we heckle, and we move on.