Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube
by maest on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:51AM
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What is a "normie"? Sounds like a vaguely inflammatory/derogatory term, but not 100% clear on what you mean by it.
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube
by BoxOfRain on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:09PM
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It's not necessarily derogatory, it depends on the context.
"Normie" just means "ordinary", "average", or "uninitiated". It usually means someone with very conventional political or cultural views but it can also mean "someone who isn't part of a subculture or group" ie developers talking about laptops might say "normies don't usually need more than 8GB of memory but some development tasks require more to be comfortable". Other times it's used in a more derogatory sense to imply that someone is a bit too credulous towards the establishment of the day ie "normies think that corruption and inequality only exist in developing countries".