• fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I can hear a faint “yeaaahyh” echoing through every hole, reminding me of a question I had back then: “what the fuck does crunk even mean?”.

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      4 months ago

      Crunk is a nonsensical word first used by Doctor Seuss in one of his books.

      Crunk as a pseudo past tense for “crank” as in “cranked up” was slang for upbeat songs, clubs, people, parties, moods, and associated with southern hip hop. Artists like OutKast and Lil Jon use this as the foremost definition.

      Unrelated, crunk was also first used and popularized by Conan O’Brien (and Starburns from Community, Dino Stamatopoulos) as “America’s newest profanity” in 1992 as a word that sounds vulgar and meant getting shit faced, i.e. “crazy drunk”. White people in the 90’s and 00’s seem to use this as the foremost definition.