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"Based" is slang for "cool" or "in" that's common on 4chan, but I believe has its origins in the 90s offline

on 4chan it's largely used to mean something along the lines of "fitting the 4chan anti-groupthink groupthink"

>>permo-+(OP)
I do recall people saying based a lot in the 90s, it meant based in reality.

>>permo-+(OP)
It originally meant "based on your own beliefs," usually in the context of sticking to your guns despite unpopularity. Which is/was the cool thing to express on 4chan.

>>neom+G1
This is it.

>>neom+G1
this sounds much more plausible than the sibling comment's "based on your own beliefs", but plausibility is not necessarily correctness

>>hot_gr+Uy
nah. 4chan learnt it from the rap song "Based God".

>>hot_gr+Uy
What? It’s from the 80s and means high on crack (freebase) and was re-popularized by Based God like 10–15 years ago.

>>honkle+uN1
It meant the same thing in "Based God." I know 4chan didn't invent the phrase.

>>hot_gr+Bh2
Based in that means "being intoxicated with cocaine".

>>honkle+qj2
Lil B said it's both: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based%20God But only because he changed the meaning. Didn't realize there was an older one too.

>>peyton+Ja2
Yep, didn't know about the crack meaning. Based God made it what it is today.