lifefuel

English

Etymology

Blend of life +‎ fuel.

Noun

lifefuel (uncountable)

1. (incel slang) Something that causes one to feel schadenfreude or nihilistic satisfaction, especially over the suffering of women.
   • 2018 May 5, David Futrelle, “The Time For 'Incel' Explainers Was Years Ago”, in Huffington Post:

     When Stephen Paddock massacred dozens of “normies” at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Reddit’s incels celebrated the news as “PURE LIFEFUEL.”

   • 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

     In the wake of the Toronto van attacks, for example, Minassian was celebrated not merely as a giver of “lifefuel” to the incels, but also as a prophet of black pill ideology—someone whose destruction of the normies would herald a wider apocalypse.

   • 2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 59:

     An example of a LifeFuel thread is titled “Whore crying because her chad bf murdered (sic)”, where a woman’s boyfriend was killed in a terrorist attack and incels responded saying “lmao cry little whore”.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lifefuel.

Antonyms

• suifuel