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2016·The platform era

Chad

A cartoon of an impossibly confident jaw, used sincerely and sarcastically at once.

You might remember it as Gigachad, Virgin vs Chad

A meme

The story

What this was

An archetype drawn as an exaggeratedly masculine figure, set against the Virgin, and later Gigachad. Began as mockery of online masculinity subcultures and was adopted by the internet at large as a way of saying somebody is simply correct.

It first appeared in 2016, during the platform era.

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The platform era

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Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.

Behind the record

Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

What happens
An archetype drawn as an exaggeratedly masculine figure, set against the Virgin, and later Gigachad. Began as mockery of online masculinity subcultures and was adopted by the internet at large as a way of saying somebody is simply correct.
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