I recently noticed a post from a blahaj user whose profile was styled after Celeste from Madeleine. She does trans stuff and posts quite a bit, including to a sub¹ called “femcelmemes”.
I’ve seem the word more than a few times in the past year, and I thought it meant “female incel”.²
However, the sub in question just seems to post girly stuff and be accepting to all feminine energents “where anybody can post memes that fit the vibe.” So what the hell is this vibe? I don’t see any incel-adjacent stuff except maybe some facetious self-deprecation, but do you have to get incel vibes to do that?
¹ Until we can truly standardize what we call them: magazines, communities (Lemmy, please pick a better name. This is too vague.), forums, hashtags, etc…, I’m calling them something we can all understand. ² Thinking about the etymology of “incel”, “femcel” should actually be “female celibate”, but who in the sam hill cares.
By “vague”, I mean really easy to confuse with an actual community, e.g. the gaming community. It’s just a bad and overgeneral term.
Also, I’m on mbin.
Well, do you know the slangy uses, or at least the meaning specific to that sub?
Mags or magazines used to be the term used, but I’ve not paid attention for a while since kbin is stalled.
Communities just isn’t snappy enough either. I also don’t think it’s a good word for it. Hopefully something better catches on.