Recently, the term "Hagmaxxing" has been spreading around the web, but did you know it started as a joke on 4Chan?
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00:00Have you heard the term hagmaxing? As far as we can tell, the first few times it was used
00:04on the internet, it was in the context of becoming a hag or hag-like. But the term has
00:08since evolved, and its new meaning started completely as a joke on 4chan. On May 21st,
00:132024, ex-user iHypocrite posted a screenshot of a fake Vice article that read,
00:18Meet the Hagmaxers, Gen Z's new social trend of dating older women.
00:21The screenshot features a silhouette of a man labeled 20 years old and one of a woman labeled
00:27with a blurb that claims Gen Z men are ditching casual encounters with Gen Z women for long-term
00:32relationships with millennial women, who I guess are now lovingly being referred to as hags.
00:36Later that day, an anonymous 4chan user claimed credit for creating the image, writing,
00:41I made this fake article days ago and right-wing grifters are already capitalizing on it. And it's
00:45true, once the image hit X, various media outlets just took the headline and ran with it, releasing
00:50articles apparently reporting on this quote trend. And like many things online that start ironically,
00:56the term soon became used in earnest to describe younger men dating older women.