Jake Neuffer

Oct 7, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Amy Rose Spiegel |Mette Kierstein |Karen Bakker |Jake Neuffer

Introducing “Gigachad” | Generated using EHStock / Getty Images Signature“Been gymmaxxing lately,” my friend quipped as he made a protein shake. “Proteinpilled too,” I said. My generation is speaking a new slang—new to us, anyway. Not quite ubiquitous, but familiar to that contingent of chronically online youth (and is that phrase not becoming a tautology?). These are phrases borrowed from incels, or “involuntary celibates,” an online community of radical misogynists.