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alphawhisky 7 hours ago

Nah it kept it's meaning, just spread more. If anything, the level of abstraction grew. "Mogged' used to be a standalone phrase, but now it's always "___mogged".

Ancapistani 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Before “mogged” was a standalone phrase, it was apparently “AMOG” - “Alpha Male of the Group”.

I don’t remember knowing that before this conversation. I asked Claude for the history of the term, then for primary sources, and manually put the below together to show a history of the term over time:

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Stage 1: “AMOG” == “Alpha male of the group”.

> she is not yet into you and a AMOG upsurps you

September 2003

https://web.archive.org/web/20231203102826/http://www.fastse...

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Stage 2: “amogged” ~= “dominated”

> He will never AMOG you agian.

August 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20240719094244/http://www.fastse...

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Stage 3: “mogged” (transition to a word without the context of the original initialism)

> Once thought invincible the mightly 6'8" 330 pound Martyn Ford is easily mogged upon

May 2016

https://desuarchive.org/fit/thread/37236240/

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Stage 4: “-mog” (noun), “-mogging” (verb)

> he heightmogs hard

December 2020

https://looksmax.org/threads/why-are-height-mogs-not-as-brut...

elicash 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe I phrased it poorly, but I just mean the context for it changed as it became mainstream. I wouldn't say it's still "incel-speak."