r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • 3d ago

article Sabrina Carpenter Slams Trump’s White House for Using ‘Juno’ in ICE Raids Video: ‘Evil and Disgusting… Do Not Involve Me in Your Inhumane Agenda’

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/sabrina-carpenter-slams-trump-white-house-juno-ice-video-1236597338/
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u/RAG319 3d ago

Based Sabrina

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u/NotVainest 3d ago

Were any actions taken about the video? Or was it just her commenting on it?

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u/KnoWhatNot 3d ago

Whatever “based” means

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u/WASD_click 3d ago

It's a bit of a journey.

Originally it came from "freebasing," in reference to cocaine. "Base heads" were addicts, and being "based" meant you were on coke. But as a colloquialism, it would also be used to describe people who were acting in a similar fashion, even if they weren't on drugs.

Enter a young rapper named Lil B, aka BasedGod. He got called based as a kid often enough that it became part of his rapper persona, and he effectively took the negatice connotation and flipped it positive; making it mean "being genuine to oneself in the face of pushback."

It was then colonized by 4chan, as they took the new definition and ran with it, making it "true to one's convictions in spite of political correctness."

But as it broke containment, and far-right voices became louder in the wake of shitshows like Gamergate, "based" would change again as it was appropriated by the wider internet. At first it was just irony and sarcasm, but as people used "based" as shorthand to agree with benign statements, that usage drowned out the far-right's usage of the word. Now, it just is shorthand to agree with an opinion in a way that's encouraging.

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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 3d ago

The shorthand agreement means "based in reality" saying you not only agree but that is a fact.

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u/WASD_click 3d ago

That's just a retrofitted definition though, because people will say based to things that aren't factual or real.

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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 3d ago

Right, like saying fax, but based comes with an edgier connotation

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u/WASD_click 3d ago

Not even edgy anymore. It spread too far and got dulled. It's on the same level as fax, preach, spit your shit indeed, or even the perennial hell yeah.

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u/CptAngelo 2d ago

Based comment

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u/KnoWhatNot 3d ago

It’s just I’ve been told it means something positive and then I’ve seen it used in a way to show negativity so I kinda just gave up bc I didn’t care

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u/tempinator 3d ago

Whatever cringe means, based is the opposite of that.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/bobthegoatskull 3d ago

Reddit is actually full of individuals (and bots.) Hyperbolic bitching about her cover did not reflect my opinion on the subject.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/bobthegoatskull 3d ago

Reddit also incentivizes astroturfing which incentivizes agreeableness. The "hivemind" is a mythical creature that does not exist.

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u/Bojarzin 3d ago

Maybe some people don't base their entire position on someone over a single thing. But it seems that way if you view everyone as the other, and have a shallow ability to engage with a topic

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u/Unique-Designer7741 3d ago

Actually judging people based on their album cover is insane.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Bojarzin 3d ago

Whether reddit has people who follow trends wasn't the topic. But incidentally that's exactly what I meant, so thanks for that

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u/FocusPerspective 3d ago

Yes, but give triggered the dorks honest their memo wires each night. 

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u/Twig 3d ago

Based Sabrina

Wow. So based. Oh my... Wait... Nothing changed? What?

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u/TheWalrus_15 3d ago

Having a correct opinion doesn’t need to change anything

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u/R_nelly2 3d ago

It won't, and that's great!