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Off-topic, but do you mean "biased" when you say "based"? I feel like I'm in some parallel universe because I swear for the last 6 months I've not seen a single person spell biased right.

Was there a meeting where everyone agreed to make a confusing change to the spelling and no-one told me about it?

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see: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based+God && https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based

Also https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-god

"Based" is similar to some uses of "cool" - it's a kind of generic positive adjective. You can read it as "sounds pretty good to me" / "sounds pretty cool to me".

It has nothing at all to do with "biased".

I've never seen it used as "cool", it's much more commonly used as synonym for "conservative" or "unique going own way despite popular opinion".

EDIT: Other poster explained it maybe better as "being yourself and not caring what others think of you".

> "unique going own way despite popular opinion"

Well, that's at least one aspect of "being cool", so I still feel they are at least vaguely related.

more specific than just cool, it sometimes means the opposite of debased (: to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character. : to reduce the intrinsic value of (a coin) by increasing the base-metal content )

I've read it as high quality, high character, or high value depending on the subject.

No, based =/= biased.

> Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger.

> Based has been appropriated by the alt-right online as a general term of praise, as if “un-woke.”

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/

Well, TIL.

Based is the opposite of cringe, the usage started with 4chan and continues on /pol/ to this day.

It’s a young persons word…

OK, cool. So it's like how everyone tried to make "on fleek" a thing a little while back?

I'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.

I think its origin is being high on crack cocaine (freebase) and feeling good as a result

From “All your base are belong to us.” Not a new term. It’s a gamer thing.

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