Virgin vs. Chad meme
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Virgin vs. Chad meme is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 24, 2021 and March 05, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “how did he come up with the Virgin vs. Chad meme in 1983?”; “I kind of want to make a Virgin vs. Chad meme comparing his answer with Ezra’s”. It most often appears alongside 1950s, 1980s, 1983.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 24, 2021
- Last seen: March 05, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
It’s impossible to tell when Fussell is serious vs. joking. The section on the physiognomy of different classes has to be a joke, right? But then how did he come up with the Virgin vs. Chad meme in 1983? Also, why does my brain keep telling me these are John McCain and Donald Trump? A friend urges me to think of these not as "rich/successful people" vs. "poor/unsuccessful people", but as three different ladders on which one can rise or fall. The most successful proles are lumber barons or pro athletes or reality TV stars. These people are much richer and more powerful than, say, a schoolteacher, but they’re still proles, and the schoolteacher is still middle class. Likewise, a very successful middle class person might become a professor or a Senator or Jeff Bezos, but this doesn't make them even a bit upper class.
(I kind of want to make a Virgin vs. Chad meme comparing his answer with Ezra’s, but I’ll restrain myself out of respect for the dignity of our participants.)