What is Choppleganger? The brutal meaning behind social media's latest GenZ term

Move over Millennials, because the GenZs are here again with a brand new mind-boggling term. The trend by Gen Z to come up with internet slangs is not ending anytime soon. The newest slang word emerging through this linguistic change is the word Choppelganger.

What is the origin of the new slang Choppelganger?

Although millennials were the driving forces in the digital world and coined phrases such as FOMO, YOLO, and the infamous adulting, the torch has been passed on to a newly cynical group of people. The new slang word is not an accolade. This word merges two words, chopped and  doppelganger. According to Gen Z, chopped means people who are not attractive to look at. Additionally, the word doppelganger is one who looks like another person but is a stranger to that person.

For example, where a social media user calls someone Shah Rukh Khan's Choppelganger, they are considering the person as a less attractive version of the actor. This combines a number of different words to create a root understanding of social media slang to grasp the full meaning of the derogatory message.

Like all other internet slang terms, it would be highly improbable to trace its origin before it becomes outdated and falls out of fashion. But the earliest available record of its usage has to do with a video that contained a look-alike for rapper Kendrick Lamar. The original commentator said: "My dyslexic a** read this as 'choppelganger' and I think I just made a word for someone who looks like u but very slightly and subtly worse."

This trend went viral on the internet with one user saying, "Everyone has a choppelganger it’s like someone who almost looks like you but chopped." Another internet user said, "Or maybe you’re someone’s choppelganger idk. Food for thought."

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