Chadfishing

From Chadfish +‎ -ing.

Chadfishing (uncountable)

1. (incel slang) The act of creating a fake online profile to catfish someone (typically a woman) by pretending to be an attractive man.
   • 2020, Henry S. Price, "Antifeminism in Neoliberalism: The Case of Incel", thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham, page 251:

     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.

   • 2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn-en: kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital og fellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page iv:

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

   • 2022 December, Michael Halpin, anonymous quotee, “Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women”, in Gender & Society‎^[1], volume 36, number 6, page 824:

     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.

   • 2023, Robert Lawson, Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints‎^[2], page 133:

     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).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chadfishing.

Chadfishing

1. present participle and gerund of Chadfish