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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is NNN an incel thing? No way people in relationships are doing this dumb shit 😂

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah kinda. It has roots in christian fanaticism where masturbation=bad. It also had some roots in faux masculinity stuff like how they said not masturbating increases testosterone (it doesn't). It's one of those things where on the surface it may seem silly and goofy but if you delve down deep enough you get bad shit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It’s one of those things where on the surface it may seem silly and goofy but if you delve down deep enough you get bad shit.

To make it abundantly clear, No Nut November was always a satirical thing. That's how it was intended to start with and it didn't have any of that masculinity nonsense attached to it. After it started getting traction though people started injecting in all kinds of insanity into it and it almost got completely co-opted by extreme far-right nutjobs. Rolling Stone even put out an article saying as much.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Make dumb joke.
  2. Others join in.
  3. Some of them don't know it's a joke.
  4. More of them don't know it's a joke.
  5. Holy shit there are a lot of you.
  6. A new movement is born.

Thanks, 4Chan. Turns out there ARE consequences to certain varieties of edgy humor when you don't know how batshit insane the other people on your website are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Only reason I'm interested in NNN is because I started a race against some random dude on reddit on who can lose the fastest. I'm still record holder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Somebody told me it was to create awareness of testicular and prostate cancer. I know it's also a fetish thing in the kink community (those wearing chastity devices).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was used as a method to promote awareness but that wasn't the original intent. It was just simply a joke that got insanely out of hand. The Chastity thing you're talking about is actually an October thing called Locktober. Some people do carry over into November but the kink community in general uses October.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. I might not be into the kink but, I can respect that people are doing Locktober for safe, sane, and consentual pleasure-related reasons. NNN was a joke originally (like the "fap roulette" challenges of yore) but definitely subverted for some pretty nefarious reasons, using shame and sexual frustration to try to radicalize people into right-wing misogyny and violence.

It's really fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. I've not known anyone, myself included, to do Locktober for some awful reasons. No Nut November just got out of hand and next thing you know you have extremist figures going mental.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't No Shave November the movement that was supposed to bring cancer awareness?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Correctamundo. No idea why I said that but yeah, you're right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

nutjobs

But it's supposed to be no nut November...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watch them eventually try to seriously attempt no pee January

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it would be so nice if we left this awful meme back to rot on Reddit, wouldn't it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fairly sure it originated on 4chan 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk man trying to outlast your partner and seeing who breaks first might be kinda fun?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not putting her through that 😂

Honestly, it should be renamed No Fap November

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For people who are into this sort of things, those terms are interchangeable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in a relationship, and I just reinterpret it. I interpret it as I can't make myself nut. There is definitely no reason to it. It's just fun in a way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fun is in the nutting, unless you're a nutter 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Putting it under someone else's control can be even more fun.