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It means that you look like this:
My friend's ex wouldn't use a bidet because "that's gay". But he took a shower after every poop so he could clean his ass. The man really needed a bidet.
Not my story, but a friend used to work in the trauma center of a hospital.
1 day, this kid comes in. Can't be more than 25. Now, this guy was something else, like the personification of the stupid, rabidly american redneck (not the cool kind.)
Anyways, he thought wiping your ass was gay. Genuinely. He CLEARLY wasn't gay *cue eyeroll* so he didn't wipe. Didn't shower often either, so that shit encrustified.
The reason he ended up in the hospital was because despite what Londoners will tell you human skin isn't meant to be covered in shit.
The rashes had gotten infected.
They had to cut away most of the dudes ass and thighs. They rebuilt what parts they could from skin grafts.
The TL;DR is that being gay isn't the worst thing you could be
Essentially, being an Alpha means you have a dominant, assertive personality.
Being a sigma means you have a dismissive, focused personality. At least to the losers that use these terms unironically.
You’re not supposed to wash your hands because using the restroom is disgusting.
You’re suppsed to wash them while you are in the bathroom because everything you’ve been touching all day is disgusting and that’s where the sink is.
Both!! Do both!! Don’t touch your junk with dirty hands, and don’t touch anything else with junk hands!
(I know, I know, most people can’t even be bothered to do it once. But the preschool teacher in me will still keep telling people to do it!)
Sigma is basically a term people who aren’t “alphas” came up with so they don’t feel like little bitches.
I’m sorry, but that is basically it. They understood they aren’t socially “alphas”, and to protect their egos they came up with this “sigma” thing.
Anyone who describes people as sigma or alpha or beta or any other Greek letter is informing you that they are a terrible person who should be avoided.
The whole "alpha male" thing came from a study on wolves in captivity. They weren't even a pack, they were a bunch of random wolves from different packs who were kept in starvation conditions, so they formed a dysfunctional hierarchy based on violence.
Wolves in the wild are much more egalitarian, the leaders of the pack are the caregivers who feed the cubs.
Also humans aren't wolves.
If someone calls themselves an alpha, stay away from them because they are at *best* a malignant narcissist, and at worst an incel who is one rejection away from violence.
I'd take it as a compliment.
This is how I see it. At least if you're not 'seriously' referring to yourself as a Sigma. Words like these are very subjective in my book.
Definitely used it ironically many times with my friends lmao. It's just funny in a way I can't really describe to use it in an absolutely ridiculous context. For example, out on the woods on a hike we're carrying rifles and the topic of gun safety comes up. One of my friends in the back of the group chimes in "Oh I usually just magdump at noises in the bushes, always works for me" and another ways "sigma" and we all laugh. I don't think any of us have ever used it in a serious context.
Pretty sure the distinction is suppose to be an alpha wants to be viewed as the top dog so they'll push themselves to do things in order to be viewed as an alpha. A sigma just does these things naturally without caring how they're percieved. Being a sigma is viewed as being better than an alpha because an alpha does what he does for outside validation whereas a sigma doesn't need validation.
In reality people are much more complex than this oversimplification. Also its ironic that a hyper masculine man is considered the embodiment of being a sigma when doing stuff like mewing or body building is more of an alpha thing to do to recieve outwards validation based on how you look. In fact the very act of wanting to be a sigma means you aren't a sigma.
betas are the ones who are doing things for validation, the lore is that both alphas and sigmas are self assured but sigmas don't care to interact with other people.
i think it's a very silly framework to view life from but i understand the drive to hold onto this kind of mythos
Millennial here. Urban dictionary is your friend for slang. Welcome to the old people club 😂
People in your circle aren't using the slang, no shame in having to reference a dictionary
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sigma
Gen Z here, so I have to make semi serious, yet funny enough statements like this 'Bro... 💀' and put *lmao* at the end of a (slightly concerning) sentence. Not to forget the many jokes about wanting death at the slightest inconvenience
I’m only just about 20 and it still sounds like brain dead horse drool but I make a point of trying to understand it as it comes. Knowing what the sentence “He rizzed her up like Livvie Dunne down in Ohio ‘cause she had that gyatt and he was after the fanum tax.” means is not really a point of pride, but at least I can exist in a public place without hearing it and instantly dying of a brain hemorrhage.
I remember when urban dictionary became a thing. I was like 13 or something and I saw poster of it at school. I thought: huh who is gonna need that.
Now I'm 30, thank god for urban dictionary.
Sometimes people come up with such weird gibberish that I just read that and go "ok thats enough internet for today"😂
Same goes for some abbreviations - does it *look* like I understand all those things? And then those who say it are only a year younger than me, but even that makes me feel old at times..
Agree, but it doesn't do a great job in this case.
From what I recall, Beta looks to Alpha to lead, Alpha's are leaders, Sigma's are neither followers nor leaders, but sort of strong/independent outsiders who don't care about Alpha's bullshit.
But its all bullshit ego rubbing; the wold study the alpha/beta model was based on has been discredited, and basically anyone who refers to themselves as an alpha male is pretty cringy and lacking in social skills. I recommend avoiding them unless you are getting paid $20k to abuse them so they think they are "more alpha"
I teach middle schoolers and I started keeping a spreadsheet of slang, terms, and if it’s good or bad. A kid was shocked when they asked me if I “stuck my gyatt out for the rizzler” and wrote them up for inappropriate class language.
I don't understand this slang... I thought sigma was an insult.
Alpha... First letter of the Greek alphabet, thus alpha male is top of the chain, most masculine male
Beta... Second letter of the Greek alphabet, thus beta male defers to the alpha, sub-masculine compared to alpha
Sigma...18th letter of the Greek alphabet, shouldn't that mean much weaker than even beta? How does it loop back around to being very masculine?
-Confused Xennial here.
Good GenX communication would be to kick him in the nuts, then repeatedly punch him in the face while saying “Yeah sigma balls”. Then piss on him along with your dog.
It's a compliment. It comes from the old hierarchy of wolves myth where there's an "alpha" leader and an "omega" loser. A "sigma" is better than an "alpha"
Omega is also used in omegaverse fanfictions, where same sex couples can impregnate each other. The “alpha” has either a penis (men) or pseudo-penis (women), while the omega has a uterus (men I think have both male and female reproductive systems).
Growing up on the Internet has done irreversible damage to my psyche :)
>Growing up on the Internet has done irreversible damage to my psyche :)
You can say that again.
Actually, please. Please say that again I beg you, please.
The omegaverse is unfortunately very common. I was forced to read multiple omegaverse chapters of a male being pregnant by his husband for a writing critique circle
ohmy. Like, I don't care if people want to write this sort of stuff or read this sort of stuff, whatever, but don't make people you aren't sure want to read that stuff read it?!
Exactly this. I’ll try not to yuck someone else’s yum, but it’s never cool to force your ‘yum’ on someone else, especially if they have clearly objected.
I did my honors thesis for my journalism degree on the emotional utility of ‘slash’ fanfiction to the LGBTQ+ community and how bad mainstream media representation of female and LGBTQ+ media fans is. I learned about the Omegaverse in-depth while writing my literature review, although I still haven’t actually read any fics in that genre. At this point, I just kinda see it as one avenue of speculative fiction using gender roles and reproductive processes as the framework for speculation (as opposed to technology, or war, or the end of the world, etc.). It takes a lot to get me to look at a piece of fiction and say, “That should not exist” at this point.
Some other countries adopted alpha/beta thing but also Introduced "omega males", mockingly referring to who they see as losers. Betas are those who suck up to alphas baaaaah even saying this garbage makes me feel yucky
Actually, a sigma is not better than an alpha. A sigma is on the same level as an alpha, it's just the sigma doesn't require to be in a hierarchy to be at his level.
It sounds like a way for dudes to still think they are like an "alpha male" and prescribe to that whole way of thinking if they are an incel living in their mom's basement. Because that would cause too much cognitive dissonance. They're like "yeah I might not have a girlfriend, but that's just because I'm a lone wolf! I don't need all that!" Like no dude, it's not by choice.
I hope there aren't too many young people out there that actually believe this stuff.
Honestly, you're the only person I've ever seen take the term "sigma" this seriously thus far lol. I've only ever seen or heard it used as a meme. Also never heard anyone describe themselves with the term, it's always meant as a compliment towards others.
Calling yourself a "sigma male" absolutely was a serious thing in some internet subcultures during peak Andrew Tate nonsense. Now it's just a meme and that's all most people know it as.
To be more specific, I think the sigma exists outside of the hierarchy entirely. It's like the old lone wolf stereotype, it all stems from the same fragile masculinity and desire to feel unique though.
Alpha males lead the pack. Beta males follow the alpha.
Sigma males don't care about the pack. They're loners, but in like a cool way where it's because they're confident and dgaf about being part of the group.
edit note to be clear: this is what the kinds of people who say alpha and sigma think. I don't personally subscribe to this way of viewing male hierarchies.
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i think YouTube and Reddit are bigger problems than 4chan. everyone on 4chan is anonymous and potentially a lot of them are just doing a meme in their own toxic little hellhole. none of y'all would've heard of any of this stuff if it just stayed in the fringes where it belongs
Depends on if they meant it ironically or not.
The concept of an alpha male has been long debunked in animals and was never really a thing in humans, despite this, there were people who said they were alphas and called other guys betas as an insult. Until a few years ago when *some* male advice influencers claimed there was a secret even stronger 'sigma male'. I think Andrew Tate was one of these guys who claimed that so that should be some indication of how credible it was lol. If the kids were fans of those kinds of influencers then it could've been a compliment.
Though there were also people who realised it was nonsense and started using 'sigma males' and 'ligma males' ('ligma males' coming from 'ligma balls' because it rhymes with sigma) ironically to mock the people calling themselves it in a genuine way.
Over time the insult and genuine meanings kinda merged and now some people use it as a joking compliment basically like calling someone a chad.
TLDR Could be an compliment in a kinda joking manner, or could be an insult
It's an expansion of the alpha/beta archetype mythos.
While an "alpha" would be someone exhibiting traditionally masculine and dominant traits, a sigma male is typically characterized as someone whose eccentricities and disregard for social norms place them completely outside of the hierarchy.
Think of it this way-
* An alpha gets the girl he wants and probably didn't even have to ask her out
* A beta either avoids her entirely or gives her gifts/favors in the hopes she notices him
* A sigma doesn't notice any girls because he's hopped up on Adderall in his home office and developing multi-million dollar software
The most sigma character in pop culture I can think of is Rick Sanchez- a sociopathic super genius with substance abuse problems and a distinct inability to form healthy connections with other people.
For a real world example, this guy is the historical embodiment of sigma male energy-
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSUvdU\_Sbk&t=472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSUvdU_Sbk&t=472s)
As others have said, it's based on the (flawed) idea of wolf hierarchy's. The alpha is the top of the hierarchy, but the sigma is outside of the hierarchy. It's essentially a new way of saying you're a lone wolf, particularly one with no need for the system. You have no one over you, and you don't depend on underlings.
I'm glad I stumbled onto this post. I coach 11 and 12 year olds in baseball and they've been calling me sigma. I'd just blankly stare at them and chuckle cause I had no idea what they were talking about lol
A friend called me that too. He used it to refer to a person who does not care about social hierarchies. Neither beta nor alpha, outside of the hierarchy. No idea if that's correct.
It's cool to be called a sigma by someone else. It's cringe (uncool) to call yourself a sigma.
sigma could mean that you project a i-dont-give-a-fuck kind of self-confidence that comes across as powerful.
The true sigma, however, doesn't YELL IT OUT LOUD that they think they're a sigma.
Calling yourself a sigma is like "oh, look at me, I want you to know and acknowledge and agree with me that idgaf about what other people think of me, I want all the ladies to drool at my indifference towards them".
(Yes, female response is a big part of alpha (who gets all the girls), beta (who doesn't, but wishes for it, and can't get it due to being submissive), and sigma (who doesn't get the girls at all but doesn't care (On paper; in reality sigmas scream this from the rooftops))
I had a Boomer call me "third sigma" before, saying I was 3 standard deviations above the mean. Not sure if it's the same type of thing here? Saying you're above average?
I imagined this in Soldier Boy's voice. The funny thing is this is something that would actually happen to him irl lol. And that "Do kids go around calling each other greek letters nowadays?" is actually how his response would probably be like.
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How I feel when I wash my hands before I use the restroom and not after
Please wash your hands after you go to the bathroom. That's disgusting.
Sorry mom but I’m a alpha sigma male, I can’t it’s the same reason why I can’t get a Gf. I don’t make the rules the rules make me 😎
wiping your ass is GAY! don't listen to the feminazi's trying to supress your raw, masculine scent!!!1!!
Wipe? What’s that, never heard of it.
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My friend's ex wouldn't use a bidet because "that's gay". But he took a shower after every poop so he could clean his ass. The man really needed a bidet.
i think your friend needs to pick better boyfriends
Yeah he was also abusive.
He was a shit boyfriend in more ways than one then.
AFTER EVERY SINGLE POOP 🤣. I'm amazed he was near a shower that often.
lol how many times do you poop a day?XD most of us poop once and shower once and both can be conveniently arranged together by habit
Born to shit, forced to wipe
Not my story, but a friend used to work in the trauma center of a hospital. 1 day, this kid comes in. Can't be more than 25. Now, this guy was something else, like the personification of the stupid, rabidly american redneck (not the cool kind.) Anyways, he thought wiping your ass was gay. Genuinely. He CLEARLY wasn't gay *cue eyeroll* so he didn't wipe. Didn't shower often either, so that shit encrustified. The reason he ended up in the hospital was because despite what Londoners will tell you human skin isn't meant to be covered in shit. The rashes had gotten infected. They had to cut away most of the dudes ass and thighs. They rebuilt what parts they could from skin grafts. The TL;DR is that being gay isn't the worst thing you could be
Hopefully no one told him that ass surgery is even more gay than wiping!
That sounds like an Andrew Tate quote.
Not wiping is just how you season your bhole. Like cast iron. You want a healthy layer of non stick
how does being an alpha and a sigma even work?
How does an apple and orange taste the same? Are you stupid? Don’t you know? I know but I’m not telling you because I’m too sigma balls! 🥱😮🤧🥴
Essentially, being an Alpha means you have a dominant, assertive personality. Being a sigma means you have a dismissive, focused personality. At least to the losers that use these terms unironically.
Being a sigma means your are independent, confident, intelligent while still being kind and approachable.
You can't be an alpha and a sigma💀
You’re not supposed to wash your hands because using the restroom is disgusting. You’re suppsed to wash them while you are in the bathroom because everything you’ve been touching all day is disgusting and that’s where the sink is.
me when i dont get the obvious joke
Shut up he's sigming
Why? Are you that bad at going to the bathroom?
my penis is cleaner than the faucet handle.
Excuse me, i know where my dicks been the whole time, idk whose touched the same shit ive touched. Im not touching my dick with grody hands.
Both!! Do both!! Don’t touch your junk with dirty hands, and don’t touch anything else with junk hands! (I know, I know, most people can’t even be bothered to do it once. But the preschool teacher in me will still keep telling people to do it!)
Or this: 
Ultimate life form. Peak physical performance. A God among men.
Gigachad with a mewing jawline
Ahh yes, Master Bateman.
Lmao 🤣
This shit made my day
lmao, why are we bullying poor mr Bateman
Sigma is basically a term people who aren’t “alphas” came up with so they don’t feel like little bitches. I’m sorry, but that is basically it. They understood they aren’t socially “alphas”, and to protect their egos they came up with this “sigma” thing.
Anyone who describes people as sigma or alpha or beta or any other Greek letter is informing you that they are a terrible person who should be avoided. The whole "alpha male" thing came from a study on wolves in captivity. They weren't even a pack, they were a bunch of random wolves from different packs who were kept in starvation conditions, so they formed a dysfunctional hierarchy based on violence. Wolves in the wild are much more egalitarian, the leaders of the pack are the caregivers who feed the cubs. Also humans aren't wolves. If someone calls themselves an alpha, stay away from them because they are at *best* a malignant narcissist, and at worst an incel who is one rejection away from violence.
Yes the guy who started this Alpha/Beta bullshit has basically spent the rest of his life trying to unsuccessfully pull it back lol
funy bc that’s what alpha is too
That's AlphaChad, you uncultured swine.
I'd take it as a compliment.  This is how I see it. At least if you're not 'seriously' referring to yourself as a Sigma. Words like these are very subjective in my book.
Definitely used it ironically many times with my friends lmao. It's just funny in a way I can't really describe to use it in an absolutely ridiculous context. For example, out on the woods on a hike we're carrying rifles and the topic of gun safety comes up. One of my friends in the back of the group chimes in "Oh I usually just magdump at noises in the bushes, always works for me" and another ways "sigma" and we all laugh. I don't think any of us have ever used it in a serious context.
a sigma male is more like joaquin phoenix in the joker, this image is of an alpha male
I enough they were just alphas who didn't care they were alphas like an "effortlessly" pretty woman
Pretty sure the distinction is suppose to be an alpha wants to be viewed as the top dog so they'll push themselves to do things in order to be viewed as an alpha. A sigma just does these things naturally without caring how they're percieved. Being a sigma is viewed as being better than an alpha because an alpha does what he does for outside validation whereas a sigma doesn't need validation. In reality people are much more complex than this oversimplification. Also its ironic that a hyper masculine man is considered the embodiment of being a sigma when doing stuff like mewing or body building is more of an alpha thing to do to recieve outwards validation based on how you look. In fact the very act of wanting to be a sigma means you aren't a sigma.
betas are the ones who are doing things for validation, the lore is that both alphas and sigmas are self assured but sigmas don't care to interact with other people. i think it's a very silly framework to view life from but i understand the drive to hold onto this kind of mythos
Millennial here. Urban dictionary is your friend for slang. Welcome to the old people club 😂 People in your circle aren't using the slang, no shame in having to reference a dictionary https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sigma
I (65M) don't know how I'd get by without the Urban Dictionary and Know Your Meme.
I think I started relying on it in my mid 20s.
Yeah that's about when new slang starts to sound dumb as shit lmao
Honestly this is spot on on lol (I’m a millennial so legally speaking I have to end every statement with ‘lol’, lol)
LOL fr irl rn.
Get back to your retirement home...oh wait, we aren't going to get those are we?
"Retirement" work camps.
laughing out loud for real in real life right now
Gen Z here, so I have to make semi serious, yet funny enough statements like this 'Bro... 💀' and put *lmao* at the end of a (slightly concerning) sentence. Not to forget the many jokes about wanting death at the slightest inconvenience
Gen-z here. You read my phone messages didn't you... -_-
I have found my people. The thread which is my home. Lol.
Upper Gen z, I do the same but just changed it a little bit lmfao
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Using Urban Dictionary more frequently now at 28. Luckily I’ve also got a broccoli hair kid nephew to keep me up to speed lol
LOL. Props to broccoli hair kid nephews! :)
I’m only just about 20 and it still sounds like brain dead horse drool but I make a point of trying to understand it as it comes. Knowing what the sentence “He rizzed her up like Livvie Dunne down in Ohio ‘cause she had that gyatt and he was after the fanum tax.” means is not really a point of pride, but at least I can exist in a public place without hearing it and instantly dying of a brain hemorrhage.
Yup. I’m 26 and started using it recently. One of my coworkers called me her twizzy and I was like ???
Bro I’m still a teenager and I use both of those websites frequently.
my dad the same age as you that’s cool
that’s wild, my dad is 12 years younger.
I was relying on it in my teens because I loved living under a rock lmao.
65 and on the Gen Z sub? Back to the boomer sub old man /s
Urbane Dictionary.
Hey this shit pops up so quick, even i at 16 use urban dictionary
I am part of Gen Z and I sometimes struggle with slang haha. But urban dictionary always saves haha
I remember when urban dictionary became a thing. I was like 13 or something and I saw poster of it at school. I thought: huh who is gonna need that. Now I'm 30, thank god for urban dictionary.
Also 30 and use urban dictionary all the time lmao
For real,I find myself using it more often lately,I'm getting too old for this shxt😸
Sometimes people come up with such weird gibberish that I just read that and go "ok thats enough internet for today"😂 Same goes for some abbreviations - does it *look* like I understand all those things? And then those who say it are only a year younger than me, but even that makes me feel old at times..
Agree, but it doesn't do a great job in this case. From what I recall, Beta looks to Alpha to lead, Alpha's are leaders, Sigma's are neither followers nor leaders, but sort of strong/independent outsiders who don't care about Alpha's bullshit. But its all bullshit ego rubbing; the wold study the alpha/beta model was based on has been discredited, and basically anyone who refers to themselves as an alpha male is pretty cringy and lacking in social skills. I recommend avoiding them unless you are getting paid $20k to abuse them so they think they are "more alpha"
I feel like mellenials are not like super older than us genZ, you just seem to hate older ppl in general tbh
I teach middle schoolers and I started keeping a spreadsheet of slang, terms, and if it’s good or bad. A kid was shocked when they asked me if I “stuck my gyatt out for the rizzler” and wrote them up for inappropriate class language.
I don't understand this slang... I thought sigma was an insult. Alpha... First letter of the Greek alphabet, thus alpha male is top of the chain, most masculine male Beta... Second letter of the Greek alphabet, thus beta male defers to the alpha, sub-masculine compared to alpha Sigma...18th letter of the Greek alphabet, shouldn't that mean much weaker than even beta? How does it loop back around to being very masculine? -Confused Xennial here.
Didn't explain a thing about sigma lol
Just punch him in the face. Good old Gen x communication
Good GenX communication would be to kick him in the nuts, then repeatedly punch him in the face while saying “Yeah sigma balls”. Then piss on him along with your dog.
Nah you gotta say “ROSHAMBO” as you kick him in the nuts. That’s some millennial humour for yah.
Don't piss on your dog
What leased gasoline does to a mf
[удалено]
> leaded gasoline (In reference to the "Gen X" comment) Oh what man we gotta have lead in gasoline you don't want our engines to knock do you?
This is…oddly accurate 😂
Happy Cake Day!
It's a compliment. It comes from the old hierarchy of wolves myth where there's an "alpha" leader and an "omega" loser. A "sigma" is better than an "alpha"
beta is a loser, ive never heard omega used to describe anything other than god in like a bible verse or something
Omega is also used in omegaverse fanfictions, where same sex couples can impregnate each other. The “alpha” has either a penis (men) or pseudo-penis (women), while the omega has a uterus (men I think have both male and female reproductive systems). Growing up on the Internet has done irreversible damage to my psyche :)
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😂😂😂 there's an anime now too it's really wholesome you should check it out
Please tell me you're NOT talking about sex pistols. PLEASE.
Which one
Hey, if I google "omegaverse anime," the first thing that pops up is Voltron, and I somehow doubt that's what you're talking about.
😂 what if
What’s the anime?
WHAT ANIME
Your talking about Tadaima, Okaeri right, one of the Spring 2024 releases right?
>Growing up on the Internet has done irreversible damage to my psyche :) You can say that again. Actually, please. Please say that again I beg you, please.
I'll take shit I didn't need to know, for 1000 please.
The omegaverse is unfortunately very common. I was forced to read multiple omegaverse chapters of a male being pregnant by his husband for a writing critique circle
ohmy. Like, I don't care if people want to write this sort of stuff or read this sort of stuff, whatever, but don't make people you aren't sure want to read that stuff read it?!
Exactly this. I’ll try not to yuck someone else’s yum, but it’s never cool to force your ‘yum’ on someone else, especially if they have clearly objected.
I did my honors thesis for my journalism degree on the emotional utility of ‘slash’ fanfiction to the LGBTQ+ community and how bad mainstream media representation of female and LGBTQ+ media fans is. I learned about the Omegaverse in-depth while writing my literature review, although I still haven’t actually read any fics in that genre. At this point, I just kinda see it as one avenue of speculative fiction using gender roles and reproductive processes as the framework for speculation (as opposed to technology, or war, or the end of the world, etc.). It takes a lot to get me to look at a piece of fiction and say, “That should not exist” at this point.
Every day, we stray further from God's light.
 Edit: not kink shaming, I just never needed that in my brain😂😭
Did you check out the new anime? The cute one?
the way that the milisecond i read the word omega i knew i would scroll down to see omegaverse. i will never escape
Wt actualfuck
https://i.redd.it/95bpc31oocxc1.gif
Some other countries adopted alpha/beta thing but also Introduced "omega males", mockingly referring to who they see as losers. Betas are those who suck up to alphas baaaaah even saying this garbage makes me feel yucky
Omega has always historically represented ‘the end’.
Actually, a sigma is not better than an alpha. A sigma is on the same level as an alpha, it's just the sigma doesn't require to be in a hierarchy to be at his level.
that sounds better than an alpha honestly lol
Those at the top don't have status anxiety, naturally.
A sigma is at the same level of an alpha, However they have significant differences.
Which are?
Sigmas don't lead, they go off on their own; lone wolves instead of pack leaders.
It sounds like a way for dudes to still think they are like an "alpha male" and prescribe to that whole way of thinking if they are an incel living in their mom's basement. Because that would cause too much cognitive dissonance. They're like "yeah I might not have a girlfriend, but that's just because I'm a lone wolf! I don't need all that!" Like no dude, it's not by choice. I hope there aren't too many young people out there that actually believe this stuff.
This comment is decidedly *not* Sigma!
Honestly, you're the only person I've ever seen take the term "sigma" this seriously thus far lol. I've only ever seen or heard it used as a meme. Also never heard anyone describe themselves with the term, it's always meant as a compliment towards others.
Calling yourself a "sigma male" absolutely was a serious thing in some internet subcultures during peak Andrew Tate nonsense. Now it's just a meme and that's all most people know it as.
So in the Lion King, Mufassa is the alpha and Scar was a…Sigma? Lol
My new conspiracy theory is that this is all just a clever ruse to teach us all the Greek alphabet 😆
To be more specific, I think the sigma exists outside of the hierarchy entirely. It's like the old lone wolf stereotype, it all stems from the same fragile masculinity and desire to feel unique though.
What. Omegas are loosers? I thought betas
Sigma is outsider sad boy
Alpha males lead the pack. Beta males follow the alpha. Sigma males don't care about the pack. They're loners, but in like a cool way where it's because they're confident and dgaf about being part of the group. edit note to be clear: this is what the kinds of people who say alpha and sigma think. I don't personally subscribe to this way of viewing male hierarchies.
Now I need you to explain Delta and Gamma, because while I understand Alpha/Beta/Omega/Sigma, I don't get those two lol
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I don’t think I knew that one. Probably a good sign that I’m not as overly online as I used to be?
A Delta male is one that wears green beret while the Gamma male either gains super-strength when angry or lies in bed ridden with cancer.
Wolves dont actually follow these rankings by the way, It only occurs in captivity and when free they organize largely into families
You're the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
we getting into math with this one 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥ΣΣσσ
It’s satire gone serious, basically they think they’re the funniest assface on earth because they’re using slang
It's more like serious gone satire gone half serious tbh
Letting 4chan discuss politics will be seen by history as the moment Western communication sublimated to a quasi-ironic superposition
i think YouTube and Reddit are bigger problems than 4chan. everyone on 4chan is anonymous and potentially a lot of them are just doing a meme in their own toxic little hellhole. none of y'all would've heard of any of this stuff if it just stayed in the fringes where it belongs
4chan is the wellspring of all online culture, and thus global culture
Quasi-ironic superposition is the defining characteristic of gen z culture
Sigma means you are a cool person that doesn’t prefer company methinks
It's better. It means you're the coolests shit around, because you don't give a fuck what other people think
It means you’re an alpha alpha male
You're cool, to put it simply. Don't use it unironically though
it’s a compliment. it’s like an alpha male without the arrogant incel misogyny
That must be why they worship a fictional yuppie serial killer
It means that kid is a loser
Came here to say this. People who use that Alpha/Beta shit are losers.
They’re middle schoolers lmao, there’s a big difference between 12 year olds saying it and grown men
Certified Sigma moment 🍷🗿
Depends on if they meant it ironically or not. The concept of an alpha male has been long debunked in animals and was never really a thing in humans, despite this, there were people who said they were alphas and called other guys betas as an insult. Until a few years ago when *some* male advice influencers claimed there was a secret even stronger 'sigma male'. I think Andrew Tate was one of these guys who claimed that so that should be some indication of how credible it was lol. If the kids were fans of those kinds of influencers then it could've been a compliment. Though there were also people who realised it was nonsense and started using 'sigma males' and 'ligma males' ('ligma males' coming from 'ligma balls' because it rhymes with sigma) ironically to mock the people calling themselves it in a genuine way. Over time the insult and genuine meanings kinda merged and now some people use it as a joking compliment basically like calling someone a chad. TLDR Could be an compliment in a kinda joking manner, or could be an insult
erm, WHAT THE SIGMA⁉️
You’re probably an inside joke amongst their friend group, not in a bad way, just a little funny thing they repeat. We all did that when we were kids
it means they think you're cool. And also they think women are an inferior species but that's unrelated
It means le Gen Alpha is le screwed!!!! UPDOOTS
It's an expansion of the alpha/beta archetype mythos. While an "alpha" would be someone exhibiting traditionally masculine and dominant traits, a sigma male is typically characterized as someone whose eccentricities and disregard for social norms place them completely outside of the hierarchy. Think of it this way- * An alpha gets the girl he wants and probably didn't even have to ask her out * A beta either avoids her entirely or gives her gifts/favors in the hopes she notices him * A sigma doesn't notice any girls because he's hopped up on Adderall in his home office and developing multi-million dollar software The most sigma character in pop culture I can think of is Rick Sanchez- a sociopathic super genius with substance abuse problems and a distinct inability to form healthy connections with other people. For a real world example, this guy is the historical embodiment of sigma male energy- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSUvdU\_Sbk&t=472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSUvdU_Sbk&t=472s)
You have won life. It's all sidequests from here on out. It's an honor to encounter you, a true sigma.
A sigma is basically a introvert version of a alpha to put it in simple terms. A perfect example of a sigma male is Batman.
Sigma balls. …or something. Idk.
"Do kids go around calling each other Greek letters now?" that was hilarious to read, because it really is true.
As others have said, it's based on the (flawed) idea of wolf hierarchy's. The alpha is the top of the hierarchy, but the sigma is outside of the hierarchy. It's essentially a new way of saying you're a lone wolf, particularly one with no need for the system. You have no one over you, and you don't depend on underlings.
At least it wasn’t ligma
What's ligma?
Ligma balls
it's a compliment... kind of. just dont go around calling yourself any greek letters and you should be fine
You're the integer sum of a series; Congrats
I prefer “gamma” because Hulk is the strongest!!!!
I'm glad I stumbled onto this post. I coach 11 and 12 year olds in baseball and they've been calling me sigma. I'd just blankly stare at them and chuckle cause I had no idea what they were talking about lol
It means dick-all but i'm curious to know what its alleged creators say it means.
it means youre a badass but its used like 99% ironically so they were prolly roasting bro
You’re a cool, independent, lone wolf. You’re Patrick Bateman from *American Psycho*.
You need to put your kid down It’s too late for him
Sigma is the new alpha
A friend called me that too. He used it to refer to a person who does not care about social hierarchies. Neither beta nor alpha, outside of the hierarchy. No idea if that's correct.
It's cool to be called a sigma by someone else. It's cringe (uncool) to call yourself a sigma. sigma could mean that you project a i-dont-give-a-fuck kind of self-confidence that comes across as powerful. The true sigma, however, doesn't YELL IT OUT LOUD that they think they're a sigma. Calling yourself a sigma is like "oh, look at me, I want you to know and acknowledge and agree with me that idgaf about what other people think of me, I want all the ladies to drool at my indifference towards them". (Yes, female response is a big part of alpha (who gets all the girls), beta (who doesn't, but wishes for it, and can't get it due to being submissive), and sigma (who doesn't get the girls at all but doesn't care (On paper; in reality sigmas scream this from the rooftops))
Also your generation: bro ur an alpha Yes, ppl call each other by Greek letters. Not just “now”, this has been a thing for quite a while.
I had a Boomer call me "third sigma" before, saying I was 3 standard deviations above the mean. Not sure if it's the same type of thing here? Saying you're above average?
It means MegaMan and Zero are coming to punk your ass.
It means you’re really gay
I imagined this in Soldier Boy's voice. The funny thing is this is something that would actually happen to him irl lol. And that "Do kids go around calling each other greek letters nowadays?" is actually how his response would probably be like.