Fuckboy

About

“Fuckboy” used as a pejorative toward men who are perceived as immature, weak or disrespectful toward women. On Tumblr, the term has also spawned a derivative phrase “en garde (English: on your guard), fuckboy," which is often accompanied with images of skeletons in a similar vein to 2Spooky.

is an Internet slang term used as a pejorative toward men who are perceived as immature, weak or disrespectful toward women. On , the term is associated with the phrase “En garde, fuckboy,” which is often paired with images of skeletons in a similar vein to .

Origin

On December 29th, 2004, Urban Dictionary^[1] user bretb submited an entry for the term “fuckboy,” defining it as “a person who is a weak ass pussy.”

Spread

On November 29th, 2008, YouTuber DJFullmoon uploaded a music video for the track “Fuck Boy” by hip hop artist Papa Duck (shown below). In the following years, prior to its adaptation by Tumblr, the term became used in the lyrics of several other hip hop and rap songs.^[8]

On October 23rd, 2013, Tumblr^[6] user adotjam published a post falsely attributing the quote “Once a fuckboy, always a fuckboy” to the deceased Roman Catholic Religious Sister Mother Teresa. Over the next year, the post gained over 81,000 notes. On March 11th, 2014, YouTuber BrealTV uploaded a satirical video titled “Signs you may be a fuckboy with Professor Houseshoes,” which called out submissive, unoriginal and fake men as being “fuckboys” (shown below).

On April 30th, the “No time for dat goku” Tumblr^[2] blog posted a photoshopped image of a retro-themed video game featuring a skeleton wielding a knife with the caption “En Garde, Fuckboy” (shown below). In the first four months, the post gained over 39,000 notes.

On August 7th, 2014, the “Get Wrecked Fuckboy” Tumblr^[3] blog was launched, which highlights images and animated GIFs of skeletons. On September 5th, Redditor ThirdWaveSTEMinism submitted a post questioning the use of the term “fuckboy” toward perceived bigots to the /r/socialjustice101^[4] subreddit. On September 17th, Tumblr^[7] user misslahla posted an image macro of a skeleton with the caption “Parlez vous francais, fuckboy?”, gathering more than 36,000 notes in two weeks (shown below, left). On September 27th, Tumblr^[5] user rememberingsuunday published a list of “fuckboy symptoms,” which accumulated upwards of 165,600 notes within 48 hours (shown below, right).

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