Chadfishing

Meanings

nounChadfishing (uncountable)

uncountableincel slangThe act of creating a fake online profile to catfish someone (typically a woman) by pretending to be an attractive man.
so i spent all night talking to this goody two shoes foid last night on my chadfishing account and heres what she admitted
2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn-en: kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital og fellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page iv
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Chadfishing encapsulates the Incel worldview’s diagnosis of a hypocritical social environment which claims to believe in feminist, egalitarian principles but which in fact facilitates degenerate, looks-obsessed behaviour.
2020, Henry S. Price, "Antifeminism in Neoliberalism: The Case of Incel", thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham, page 251
In a thread receiving more than 100 replies, User 8 shares screenshots from conversations with numerous women he is Chadfishing: When Chadﬁshing these girls are like slaves.
2022 December 29, Michael Halpin, anonymous quotee, “Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women”, in Gender & Society, volume 36, number 6, page 824
The aim of 'Chadfishing' is to show that regardless of how terrible a man is, women will still be prepared to sleep with him because of how good-looking he is (see also Klee 2019).
2023, Robert Lawson, Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints, page 133