Chads and Stacies

A crudely-drawn disjointed man with triangle-shaped haircut and a woman with similar features hold a blank picket sign together. Both are blond-haired, blued-eyed, and are wearing bright pink tops and bright green shorts or pants.

"Chad" and "Stacy" (plural Stacies) are memetic archetypes popular in online communities and internet memes. Chad and Stacy represent heterosexual cisgender men and women, respectively, that are unintelligent but physically fit, and are defined primarily by their perceived sexual appeal. Both archetypes are representative of traits that are hated in Manosphere movements such as incels. However, "Stacy", was historically used as a lens to view all women who are sexually active, and such, was an outlet for especially extreme hatred.

Though Chads and Stacies were common early in their popularity in misogynist communities, they have been normalized in popular meme culture for years, including in memes that satirize and outright mock their meanings. As such, the uses of these tropes is not necessary hateful.

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