Meaning of Chadfishing | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of creating a fake online profile to catfish someone (typically a woman) by pretending to be an attractive man.

uncountable

Examples

“Chadfishing encapsulates the Incel worldview’s diagnosis of a hypocritical social environment which claims to believe in feminist, egalitarian principles but which in fact facilitates degenerate, looks-obsessed behaviour.”

“so i spent all night talking to this goody two shoes foid last night on my chadfishing account and heres what she admitted”

“In a thread receiving more than 100 replies, User 8 shares screenshots from conversations with numerous women he is Chadfishing: When Chadfishing these girls are like slaves.”

“The aim of 'Chadfishing' is to show that regardless of how terrible a man is, women will still be prepared to sleep with him because of how good-looking he is (see also Klee 2019).”

CEFR level