“From Love To Loathing: How The Word ‘Based’ Was Co-Opted From Lil B And Corrupted By The Alt-Right”

In The Early 2010s, A New Kind Of Internet Positivity Began To Take Shape—Unfiltered, Raw, And Filled With Love. At The Center Of This Movement Was A Figure Who Was Simultaneously Surreal, Prophetic, Absurd, And Radically Sincere: Lil B The Based God. A Bay Area Rapper And Cultural Iconoclast, Lil B Took What Was Once An Insult—“Based”—And Redefined It, Transforming It Into A Philosophy Rooted In Self-Love, Freedom, And Non-Judgment.

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