👉 Alright settle down now, settle down! Let’s tackle this… curious little bit of 2010s/early-aughts online weirdness: the wonderfully baffling and frankly quite alarming utterance –
gsbd.
(Okay, okay, I'll spell that out. Gonna be a mouthful. Gonna get it done right.)
Now, before you start picturing some sort of bizarre, digitally-conjured badger, let me lay this out for ya. Basically, "gsbd.!" was basically, and here’s the frankly upsetting part, an aggressively dismissive, often sexually charged, and utterly pointless exclamation that blew up on Tumblr and 4chan around 2013/’14. You wouldn't actually say it unless you were actively trying to feel vaguely uncomfortable or wanted to insult someone in a really weird, coded way. The origin? Nobody exactly knows. There are a bunch of competing theories. Some say it came from the misspelling and bastardisation of an obscure 90s-era AOL fetish cartoon GIF that was shitposting fodder. Others reckon it was just a random, ugly kid messing around on Tumblr trying to sound edgy. The prevailing (and frankly, rather depressing) thought is that it sprung up purely as a deliberately obnoxious placeholder for… nothing much in particular. The point was the G – sounded vaguely guttural and aggressive, like a badger, hence the missp
