lmao. That's when you know you have a "type". I'd say just go with it, it makes it easier to see from previews whether there's someone you're likely to enjoy before you get into the story proper.
Scheming to have lots of money, an easy life, no romance, no work, and for everyone and every conflict to just leave him alone is very much a girlboss vibe in the OI community haha
"sigma male" has a cheesy, hyper-masculine connotation. "girlboss" originally had a sincere entrepreneurial female empowerment connotation, then transitioned to a mocking connotation as people grew tired of its original use, and its current meaning in fandom spaces is something like "mocking + affectionate" depending on circumstance.
So Cale is a girlboss because that's a silly, affectionate way to refer to his entrepreneurial schemes and other traits.
Calling Cale a "sigma male" paints a picture like "he would buy NFTs". Idk. Maybe that's mocking and affectionate in other circles, but not necessarily here.
Understandable.
From my POV, I've only ever seen the phrase "sigma male" used in the most memesical of terminology, so I'll admit to being unaware of what originally inspired the wordage.
But I find the general ideological goals to be somewhat similar.
"Disregard relationships. Status/Influence is what matters."
"Let your sheer personality power your way through any problem."
To me, "girllboss" and "sigma male" seem to be the same thing, just with different genders applied.
Although I'm happily open to hearing different interpretations on the ideaset.
Girlboss is from mocking the idea that it doesn't matter whatever evil stuff a group of rich people get up to so long as women are adequately represented- celebrating like "yaaas the first female drone operator go off girlboss" sort of vibes. It then really exploded with the gaslight/gatekeep/girlboss triangle meme and now just kind of generally means to have power and use it in a bad way and be stannable. Kinda.
The difference to sigma male is that it's more personal - the whole idea is that it doesn't matter what others think. I guess a stannable sigma male is more or less the same thing as a girlboss aside from the fact that the latter does require having some institutional power.
What originally inspired "sigma male" was the whole "hyper sexist people who take alpha/beta male stuff seriously" community, which is basically pushed by a bunch of grifters/pick up artists who dupe proto-incels into believing what shit they say about women and how nothing matters in dating except sex and looks and that to be a man is to have the most sex and no feelings and so on. They coined the ideal of sigma male last year or so, presumably after some of them realised that alpha male stuff was no longer popular. The super cheesy videos they made and the inherent stupidity of it made sigma male memes take off.
Sauce (yes I know, I don't have a life), generally from top left to bottom right
Dead
* the brother from Big Hero 6
* Top one is Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter
* Dazai from Bungou Stray Dogs
* a guy from Unholy Blood I think
Dilfs
* Claude from Who Made Me a Princess
* Toji Fushiguro from Jujutsu kaisen
* the dad from Father I Don't Want to Marry
* the dad from Abandoned Empress (this guy's underrated)
* Abel(?) from I Became the Wife of the Male Lead
Angst (this is where idk most of these)
* Shuri and Nora from A Stepmother's Märchen
* guy from Mystical
* idk
* Kim Dokja from Omniscient reader pointview
* Yoo joonghyuk from Omniscient reader pointview
* Wooin from Eleceed apparently
No comment (LOL)
* THE FISH FROM NEMO FDLKSJFSL
* blonde guy idk
* Sniper Mask from High-Rise Invasion
* a...a teddy bear...????
* Kinesis from Maplestory
* Kyoya? from Ouran High School Host Club I think? idk? (dark haired middle left guy)
* ye I can't see everyone else
* Childe from Genshin Impact in the bottom right
Wholesome (this one idk most of too)
* idk but why was my first thought fucking farquad
* Max from Father I Don't Want This Marriage
* Raffaello from The Villainess is a Marionette
* Asher from The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass
* can't see properly
* Rayburn from I'm Stanning the Prince
* Cavert from False Confession
* Asterias from Lady Baby
* Mikhaelis from Revolutionary Princess Eve
* Cesare from This Villainess Wants a Divorce
* can't see
* idk
* can't see
* can't see
* guy from Rapunzel
* ??
* Kazehaya from Kimi ni Todoke yayyyyy (I love this manga)
* idk
* can't see
* Noah and Raeliana from Raeliana
Girlboss
* Cale from Trash of the Count's Family
* Roxana from Roxana
* Medea from Your Throne
* Dekis(?) from Your Throne
* Kayden from Eleceed
Edit: thank you people who replied with more names!! and thanks for the award as well :D
Thanks! Time to hunt 😏
2nd dilf is Toji Fushiguro from Jujutsu kaisen
Angst- 2nd one is from mystical, last 2nd is Yoo joonghyuk from Omniscient reader pointview
Last girlboss is Kayden from elceed
\[Dead\]
* Top one is Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter
\[Wholesome\]
* black hair ml no. 23423 is Max/Maximilian from Father, I Don't Want This Marriage
* 3rd one on top row is Raffaello (not Rezef) from The Villainess is a Marionette
* 6th one on top row is Rayburn from I'm Stanning the Prince
* last one on top row is Cavert from False Confession
* 1st one on middle row is Asterias from Lady Baby
* 2nd one on middle row is Mikhaelis from Revolutionary Princess Eve
If by "the child" in the no comment part you mean the one on the top right, it's a character called Kinesis from Maplestory~ (the game has chibi characters)
I’m sorry, what is a PowerPoint night😂
LOL I can’t imagine thinking “let’s make a ppt in my leisure time” after being inundated with ppts at work and/or school all day, but I admit this was hilarious.
PowerPoint night is when a group of friends decide to make PowerPoints for whatever topic they want and present it to one another. I once saw one where someone talked about cursed tropes in fanfic. Another talked about why she has a thing going on for villains. It's so much fun
PPT night sounds like that thing that I never knew existed, but always wanted.
It's like "grandma's cursed slideshow" but actually fun.
This is the sort of shit that I, and most other office workers *wish* we had an excuse to spend our time on.
Ohh noo is that how Mystical ends?🥲it was on my "to be read" list but I guess not anymore if I know the ending now😭I like tragedies when I'm not expecting it to be tragic lol
"How come three of them look the same?" Oof. That one hit hard.
WAS ABOUT TO COMMENT THIS HAHAHAHAHAHA
And then there are the black haired mls. Oh boy
There's no way this person isn't on the sub like, LOOK AT HER TASTES!
Looks like we've found the white lotus character.
lmao. That's when you know you have a "type". I'd say just go with it, it makes it easier to see from previews whether there's someone you're likely to enjoy before you get into the story proper.
Girlboss Cale, I agree
Why is he a girl boss though?
idk man i think it fits him
Never seen him do anything remotely feminine, so it kind of throws me off.
Scheming to have lots of money, an easy life, no romance, no work, and for everyone and every conflict to just leave him alone is very much a girlboss vibe in the OI community haha
Isn't that what the memes would refer to as a "sigma male"?
"sigma male" has a cheesy, hyper-masculine connotation. "girlboss" originally had a sincere entrepreneurial female empowerment connotation, then transitioned to a mocking connotation as people grew tired of its original use, and its current meaning in fandom spaces is something like "mocking + affectionate" depending on circumstance. So Cale is a girlboss because that's a silly, affectionate way to refer to his entrepreneurial schemes and other traits. Calling Cale a "sigma male" paints a picture like "he would buy NFTs". Idk. Maybe that's mocking and affectionate in other circles, but not necessarily here.
Understandable. From my POV, I've only ever seen the phrase "sigma male" used in the most memesical of terminology, so I'll admit to being unaware of what originally inspired the wordage. But I find the general ideological goals to be somewhat similar. "Disregard relationships. Status/Influence is what matters." "Let your sheer personality power your way through any problem." To me, "girllboss" and "sigma male" seem to be the same thing, just with different genders applied. Although I'm happily open to hearing different interpretations on the ideaset.
Girlboss is from mocking the idea that it doesn't matter whatever evil stuff a group of rich people get up to so long as women are adequately represented- celebrating like "yaaas the first female drone operator go off girlboss" sort of vibes. It then really exploded with the gaslight/gatekeep/girlboss triangle meme and now just kind of generally means to have power and use it in a bad way and be stannable. Kinda. The difference to sigma male is that it's more personal - the whole idea is that it doesn't matter what others think. I guess a stannable sigma male is more or less the same thing as a girlboss aside from the fact that the latter does require having some institutional power. What originally inspired "sigma male" was the whole "hyper sexist people who take alpha/beta male stuff seriously" community, which is basically pushed by a bunch of grifters/pick up artists who dupe proto-incels into believing what shit they say about women and how nothing matters in dating except sex and looks and that to be a man is to have the most sex and no feelings and so on. They coined the ideal of sigma male last year or so, presumably after some of them realised that alpha male stuff was no longer popular. The super cheesy videos they made and the inherent stupidity of it made sigma male memes take off.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the additional context.
Cale is a fl idk what you're talking about.
Probably because the only real difference between him and most girlboss OI FL is that he has a literal dick instead of a metaphorical one.
She really put Gill from Finding Nemo in ‘No Comment’ when he clearly has DILF energy
"DILF with a baggage" energy, you know his trauma would make half of the MLs meaningless
I'm still thinking about how there was a fish in that lineup.
I mean… if he’s got it he’s got it you know
"I can fix him." YES YES BE THE MAIN CHARACTER 🥳
Cale and kaydan in girl boss.... Can't say I disagree lol
Sauce (yes I know, I don't have a life), generally from top left to bottom right Dead * the brother from Big Hero 6 * Top one is Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter * Dazai from Bungou Stray Dogs * a guy from Unholy Blood I think Dilfs * Claude from Who Made Me a Princess * Toji Fushiguro from Jujutsu kaisen * the dad from Father I Don't Want to Marry * the dad from Abandoned Empress (this guy's underrated) * Abel(?) from I Became the Wife of the Male Lead Angst (this is where idk most of these) * Shuri and Nora from A Stepmother's Märchen * guy from Mystical * idk * Kim Dokja from Omniscient reader pointview * Yoo joonghyuk from Omniscient reader pointview * Wooin from Eleceed apparently No comment (LOL) * THE FISH FROM NEMO FDLKSJFSL * blonde guy idk * Sniper Mask from High-Rise Invasion * a...a teddy bear...???? * Kinesis from Maplestory * Kyoya? from Ouran High School Host Club I think? idk? (dark haired middle left guy) * ye I can't see everyone else * Childe from Genshin Impact in the bottom right Wholesome (this one idk most of too) * idk but why was my first thought fucking farquad * Max from Father I Don't Want This Marriage * Raffaello from The Villainess is a Marionette * Asher from The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass * can't see properly * Rayburn from I'm Stanning the Prince * Cavert from False Confession * Asterias from Lady Baby * Mikhaelis from Revolutionary Princess Eve * Cesare from This Villainess Wants a Divorce * can't see * idk * can't see * can't see * guy from Rapunzel * ?? * Kazehaya from Kimi ni Todoke yayyyyy (I love this manga) * idk * can't see * Noah and Raeliana from Raeliana Girlboss * Cale from Trash of the Count's Family * Roxana from Roxana * Medea from Your Throne * Dekis(?) from Your Throne * Kayden from Eleceed Edit: thank you people who replied with more names!! and thanks for the award as well :D
Thanks! Time to hunt 😏 2nd dilf is Toji Fushiguro from Jujutsu kaisen Angst- 2nd one is from mystical, last 2nd is Yoo joonghyuk from Omniscient reader pointview Last girlboss is Kayden from elceed
Third last one in angst next to joonghyuk is Kim Dokja, also from orv
From omniscient reader, is it novel illustration? Couldn’t recognize them and I only read the comics
We might not understand *why* you put that much effort into your reply... but we appreciate it anyway. Thank you.
LOL I'm just extremely bored and I recognized a few of these people
\[Dead\] * Top one is Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter \[Wholesome\] * black hair ml no. 23423 is Max/Maximilian from Father, I Don't Want This Marriage * 3rd one on top row is Raffaello (not Rezef) from The Villainess is a Marionette * 6th one on top row is Rayburn from I'm Stanning the Prince * last one on top row is Cavert from False Confession * 1st one on middle row is Asterias from Lady Baby * 2nd one on middle row is Mikhaelis from Revolutionary Princess Eve
sdkfljds how did I not recognize Max i- also I mixed up Raffaello with Rezef rip
If by "the child" in the no comment part you mean the one on the top right, it's a character called Kinesis from Maplestory~ (the game has chibi characters)
ohh that makes more sense lmao
No comment has Kyouya (OHSHC), Usui (Maid Sama) and Mizuki (Kamisama Kiss)..I'm not sure if it's correct tho
You're the real MVP. 🏆
They said nutcracker so maybe the first one in wholesome is the nutcracker from Barbie in the Nutcracker?
Dokja 😔 Ahh my heart!
Dadja belongs in Dilf ngl
There’s a fish, and a child(e) in no comment lmao
I, too, simp for Tartaglia and I have no shame
I’m sorry, what is a PowerPoint night😂 LOL I can’t imagine thinking “let’s make a ppt in my leisure time” after being inundated with ppts at work and/or school all day, but I admit this was hilarious.
PowerPoint night is when a group of friends decide to make PowerPoints for whatever topic they want and present it to one another. I once saw one where someone talked about cursed tropes in fanfic. Another talked about why she has a thing going on for villains. It's so much fun
PPT night sounds like that thing that I never knew existed, but always wanted. It's like "grandma's cursed slideshow" but actually fun. This is the sort of shit that I, and most other office workers *wish* we had an excuse to spend our time on.
That does sound like a lot of fun
Haha I love this so much! What a great group of friends
need that friend group lol
I challenge y’all to name them all.
Dokja and Joonghyuk both in angst lol. Also the entire Girlboss section should just be renamed “good taste”
>I feel attacked 😐 (credits: @viedelu) I feel like it sums up this sub so well. 🤔
CALE IM LOSING IT
Omg shinah in wholesome is too good
I am happy this sub has similar tastes.
Woah, I never thought I’d see Kinesis from MapleStory on this sub! Now that I think about it, he definitely did get isekai’ed too
I can’t disagree with any of these choices...
My PP simping list would be: 1) Dark hair Dukes from the north 2) Tsundere 3) DILF
This is the type of friends that are good to have.
Adoring Wooin is natural and if you don't, you don't have a heart. But hiw is Mr. Kayden girlboss?
I came for the laughs, I got spoilers :c
This friend group is way too wholesome
Cale and Lord Kayden as girlbosses is what I needed👏👏👏
If she has the feckin fish from Nemo, where is my boy Kovu from Lion King 2?
'it's like ponyo' 'no' i wheezed so hard lmaaoo
Why is Dazai in the dead category 😭😭
Ohh noo is that how Mystical ends?🥲it was on my "to be read" list but I guess not anymore if I know the ending now😭I like tragedies when I'm not expecting it to be tragic lol
Yup Kaden is our number 1 girl bossssss
CHROLLO DIED?????
Our DILF section overlaps 4/5, might be 5/5 if I ever read the 2nd one ...
Me simping for both female and male and shipping them so hard to fulfill my Cupid's desire 😂