gigachad

gigachad

English

Alternative forms

• Gigachad, GigaChad

Etymology

giga- +‎ Chad. Coined by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who described Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad. The perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians".

Noun

gigachad (plural gigachads)

1. (Internet slang) An extremely muscular man often featured in memes, originating in several images posted by the Instagram account berlin.1969, identified as a photoshopped depiction of Russian model Ernest Khalimov.
   • 2021 February 1, Miles Klee, “Who Is GigaChad: Meme, Digital Creation or Russian Model?”, in MEL Magazine‎:

     This gets even weirder, though. Since every photo of him seems to have been taken and released by the artist Krista Sudmalis, whose ongoing "Sleek'N'Tears" project is his lone credit — and there he is exclusively referred to as "1969" — it’s fair to suspect that GigaChad is almost entirely Sudmalis' digital creation.

   • 2021 May 3, Lyshiel Aranal, Trixie Velasquez, “'Thanks for your kind words': GigaChad finally responds to the memes”, in Pop Inquirer‎:

     "GigaChad" (also known as "Average Enjoyer") is Russian menswear model and bodybuilder Ernest Khalimov. Aside from the "GigaChad" memes, he isn’t very well-known. Even in the "Sleek'N'Tears" project, he was exclusively known as "1969," so it’s fair that a lot of people are surprised to hear that he’s a real person.

   • 2021 October 19, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who is Ernest Khalimov AKA GigaChad and what is the Chad meme?”, in The Sun‎:

     It has sparked a constant slew of online memes that poke fun at the idea that the model is in-fact a GigaChad or "Ultimate Man," as defined by the Urban dictionary.

2. (by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.
   • 2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global‎:

     I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.

   • 2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times‎:

     As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.

   • 2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg‎:

     His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

3. (by extension, incel slang) An exceptionally handsome man, having an even higher level of attractiveness than a Chad.
   • 2020, anonymous, quoted in Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 76:

     A forum commenter applied this definition to a woman he saw on social media, "…the foid [woman] had all the gigastacy [rated 10 on the scale] traits, she was hot, blonde, wore makeup, wears skimpy clothes, popular, parties, and her boyfriend is a muscular bodybuilder gigachad."

   • 2020, Nate Gallagher, "The Blackpill and the Suffering Apparatus: Science, Masculinity, and Race as Represented on Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Virtual Forums", thesis submitted to Dartmouth College, page 62:

     Those that land in the top 20 percent of the scale earn some variant of “Chad” as a designation, varying from the low-tier "Chadlites" to the ultimate "Gigachad."

   • 2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 58:

     if you were a foid with the infinite SMV [Sexual market value] that having eggs grants, and every guy on the planet wanted to fuck you, and getting fucked by chads is the biggest source of happiness chemicals possible, wouldn’t you also get fucked by gigachads all day long?

Coordinate terms

• gigastacy

Related terms

• Chad
• Chadlite