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Chad

You might remember it as Gigachad, Virgin vs Chad

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

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2016·The platform era

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

At a glanceThe facts

Spread in
2016
Format
Meme
Era
The platform era
Where it started
Chicago slang of the 2000s for wealthy young men from the northern suburbs, taken up on 4chan
Also known as
GigaChad, from 2016, uses photographs of a model taken by Krista Sudmalis for an art project
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

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.

TimelineIn order

  1. Took off

    A character called Chad Thundercock spreads from 4chan.1

  2. Made

    GigaChad appears.1

  3. Made

    The “Virgin vs. Chad” format begins on 4chan’s /r9k/ board.1

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered asThe internet invented it.

ActuallyIt was used in Chicago, as an insult, before it was used online.1

More from hereIn this collection

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

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

ConnectedFollow it further

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Chad (slang)

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