/lit/ - Literature

>>22947746
It started on /sp/ as much as on /mu/, due to Lil B's ongoing feud with Kevin Durant.

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>>21721853
Lil B, the Based God, is a meme rapper who achieved minor celebrity on /mu/. But where he REALLY took off was when he started to get into a fight with Kevin Durant of the NBA and /sp/ picked up on it. "Thank You Based God" became a popular phrase on /sp/ about a decade ago because we became more and more aware of this hilarious feud that this mediocre rapper was trying to start with one of the most famous athletes on the planet.

It went to a higher level when Durant, out of the blue, declared that Lil B was a "wack" rapper. This caused Lil B to get extremely upset, and he declared that Kevin Durant was cursed. Specifically, he declared that the #BASEDGODCURSE was now in effect on Durant, and KD would not win any championships, or get any women, until he played Lil B in a game of 1v1 pickup basketball. Durant, of course, refused to do this. And then KD began to suffer a series of increasingly ridiculous misfortunes in the NBA playoffs: terrible luck, stretches of awful play, freak injuries, etc.. So the curse seemed to have an effect. This increased Lil B's fame on /sp/ and spread the "Based God" name more, and "based" spread more as a result.

To top it all off, Lil B finally lifted the curse on his own accord... when Durant joined the Golden State Warriors, Lil B's hometown team (Lil B is from Oakland). And those are the only rings Durant has ever won, lending credence to the idea that the curse does in fact have some legitimate supernatural power.

/sp/ of course always got a kick out of all of this, and I'd argue they are much more responsible than /mu/ for spreading "based" as a word.