![]() ![]() And like most memes, it eventually worked it's way outside 4chan to the rest of the internet several years after the fact. For example, the developers of a game adding a long-awaited feature would elicit posts and responses on 4chan exclaiming "THANK YOU BASED DEVS!".Īs the gag of attributing things personally to Lil B died down and people continued to use "THANK YOU BASED X" as a response to something they liked, people eventually simply started used "based" as a general descriptor for anything they liked. Eventually, people started substituting "God" with whoever was actually (or believed to be) responsible for the positive thing. Rapper Lil B said based means 'being yourself and not caring what others think of. Being positive.Ĥchan picked up on Lil B in 2011-2012 ish, and it became a running gag to attribute any positive happenings to the work of Lil B, and to respond to threads or posts about positive things with "THANK YOU BASED GOD!". The word based on TikTok means to be yourself without worrying about how other people may perceive you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Not being scared of what people think about you. In Lil B's own words:īased means being yourself. The original meaning came from rapper Lil B "The BasedGod". ![]() Theres a rapper named Lil B, who also goes by 'The Based God', that originally used it to mean 'being true to yourself', and that meaning does still exist in conversation, but especially when you hear it in rap. Its been simplified to that in recent years. ![]() My understanding from having been around when it first started: 'Based' is kind of just an adjective for something that is 'cool' or 'awesome' most of the time. ![]()
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