Chadfish
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) + catfish (“to create and operate a fake online profile to deceive”).
Verb
[edit]Chadfish (third-person singular simple present Chadfishes, present participle Chadfishing, simple past and past participle Chadfished)
- (incel slang) To catfish someone (typically a woman) by creating a fake online profile posing as an attractive man.
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Kristine Øgsnes, "'There’s No Self-Improvement for Subhumans': Håpløshet og fortvilelse som sosialt lærte holdninger blant incels", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 36:
- That one where you chadfished a girl in the mall and made her walk in circles is still the best
- 2024 January 3, Alyssa J. Davis, Heather Hensman Kettrey, “Undoing Violence in the Manosphere: Incels' Disengagement from Extremism in Digital Free Space”, in Mobilization: An International Quarterly, volume 28, number 4:
- In response to this post, Incels.is members expressed admiration for this Incel and diminished the intelligence of the woman he Chadfished.
- 2024, Michael Halpin, "Are you an NPC?: The Stigmatization of Facts and Knowledge in Right-Wing Online Communities", research paper published on SocArXiv, page 29:
- Incels Chadfish by creating fake dating app profiles using pictures of extremely attractive men.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chadfish.
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Kristine Øgsnes, "'There’s No Self-Improvement for Subhumans': Håpløshet og fortvilelse som sosialt lærte holdninger blant incels", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 36:
Noun
[edit]Chadfish (plural Chadfish or Chadfishes)
- (incel slang) An account or persona used for this purpose.
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Kristine Øgsnes, "'There’s No Self-Improvement for Subhumans': Håpløshet og fortvilelse som sosialt lærte holdninger blant incels", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 36:
- his chadfish are god tier blackpill. ensuring many keks at foid suffering
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn-en: kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital og fellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page ii:
- i dump stacy on my chadfish account months later she texts me she wants to marry me and get back together
- 2022 December, Michael Halpin, anonymous quotee, “Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women”, in Gender & Society[1], volume 36, number 6, page 824:
- In response to User 8's post, User 35 states, "your Chadfish would have had taken the virginity of a dozen women by the end of high school. Fresh pussy, untouched by work or duty."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chadfish.
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Kristine Øgsnes, "'There’s No Self-Improvement for Subhumans': Håpløshet og fortvilelse som sosialt lærte holdninger blant incels", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 36: