• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 hours ago

    The first part is (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek: “foid” or “moid” are variations of a pejorative for “female” or “male” that started unironically in incel circles, but I mostly see it used ironically in memes like this now: similar to others like “Chad, Stacey, Alpha, Sigma” that came from the same place.

    Tech is just technique. Calling a new thing you can do a “tech” comes from gaming circles, like how speed runners find strategies to optimize their runs.