Normies and Associated Words

I notice that James Corbett of Corbett Report fame has been using this term for some time now and it's a term that perfectly suits a friend of mine who is an utter conformist when it comes to accepting whatever mainstream media propaganda is being trotted out. The top urban dictionary definition of the word is "a person who keeps up with mainstream media, and does what popular culture tells them to do". Here is part of longer definition on the same site:

A person gravitating to social standards, accepted practices, and fads of their own time & geographic grouping without broader cultural perspectives from which they draw. Normies possess a lack of interest in ideas not easily accessible or being outside of their/society's current range of acceptance. A straight. A follower. Most normies adopt a "popularity is the only measure of good or bad" mindset at an early age. Normies typically have a sense of cultural superiority over "counter culture" movements & foreign cultures. They will often try to discredit out cultures or choices falling outside of their majority think claiming those of other dispositions are mentally ill or out of touch with reality.

The equivalent term from my youth (late 60s and early 70s) would have been someone described as straight, who didn't smoke marijuana and take psychedelics, and had conservative political views. Nowadays, especially since the Covid-1984 scamdemic/plandemic was unleashed, a normie is someone who accepts the "official narrative" as propounded by MSM (mainstream media) sources.

Despite being a septuagenarian, I realise that there are other takes on the term "normie", especially in regards to memes on social media. Figure 1 illustrates this:

Figure 1

This investigation led me on to weeb versus normie with Figure 2 showing an infographic on the meaning of the former term:

Figure 2: source

However, there's a plethora of associated terms as can be seen in Figure 3. I can personally identify as a Boomer in the graphic and then, in addition to Normies and Weebs, there are Geeks, Memers, Gamers, Cosplayers, Bronies and Furries. I'm familiar with Geeks and Gamers and I know what a Meme is but I'm not familiar with Cosplayers and Bronies. I think Furries are people who like depicting humans with animal characteristics (cat ears, tails etc.).

Figure 3: source

One urban dictionary definition of a furry is (from March of 2021):

1. Someone with an interest in anthropomorphic animals.

2. An anthro or a human/ultra humanoid animal character. (Popular examples being Loona from HelluvaBoss, Lola Bunny, Beastars characters, etc.)

The furry fandom is a subculture focused around cartoon animals, anthropomorphic animals, and human-animal hybrids, commonly expressed through art, costumes, cosplay, roleplay, media, etc.

A definition of cosplay is literally "Costume Play", dressing up and pretending to be a fictional character (usually a sci-fi, comic book, or anime character). 

A brony is described as follows in this definition from September 2013:

A fan of the show "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". Often male, but female fans are not uncommon. Bronies usually show a want to be accepted as normal people, but don't appear to realise that to be treated the same as anyone else, they need to stop making sure everyone knows and remembers that they are a brony at all times, without fail. They also don't appear to understand that most people don't appreciate the internet being taken over by their fandom, which is another main cause for the hate of bronies.

Here is good definition of dank that seems to pop up a lot amidst the previous terms:

Dank, is an adjective which is over-used by people in general and mostly by people trying to appear cool to their stoner friends. Dank means dark, sticky, gooey, and potent. It was originally a common word to describe disgusting basements and caves ect. Then the world of pot took it over and was using it very correctly to describe very potent strains of marijuana, seeing as the definition of dank meets all the qualities you find in good marijuana. Then "squares" and people who wanted to look cool to stoners started using it to describe anything they think is "cool" which in turns makes them believe they themselves are "cool" as well. In reality it makes them seem as illiterate as an ape. M&M's are not dank, chips are not dank, and your clothes are definitely not dank, you need to stop overusing and killing the word.

All this takes us right back to good old normy, norm, Norm (as in a person's name), normal and normality, normalcy, normalization/normalisation, normally, normative etc. with the etymology of normal being described as follows (source):

c. 1500, "typical, common;" 1640s, in geometry, "standing at a right angle, perpendicular," from Late Latin normalis "in conformity with rule, normal," in classical Latin "made according to a carpenter's square," from norma "rule, pattern," literally "carpenter's square," a word of unknown origin (see norm). Meaning "conforming to common standards or established order or usage, regular, usual" is attested from 1828 but probably is older than the record [Barnhart].