Citations:copium

English citations of copium

Noun

• 2003 June 17, Keak da Sneak, (album name):

  Copium

• 2020 November 9, Gita Jackson, “Coping MAGA Tweets Are Funny, But We Need to Move Beyond 4chan Culture”, in VICE‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-05-12:

  If the image of Democratic defeat is of that protester screaming no, the image of MAGA humiliation is of Pepe the Frog or Trump himself hooked up to an oxygen machine that's instead providing him with copium, watching the rare and humiliating end of a one-term president.

• 2020 November 10, Jon Jackson, “'Coping MAGA' Account That Mocks Mournful Trump Supporters Suspended by Twitter”, in Newsweek‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-23:

  There have been many images depicting "copium," an imaginary drug that right-wingers are huffing or injecting to numb themselves from the election results.

• 2020 December 20, Jason Wilson, “Sky News Australia is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories to a global audience online”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-10:

  Some of this is simply dead ender-claptrap: straw-grasping and copium for Trumpists who are struggling to assimilate the new reality. But some of it is racist conspiracy theory, and Sky's new business model means that Australia is effectively exporting it.

• 2021 November 14, Hannah Worthy, “League of Legends: Why I don't care if Europe never wins worlds”, in The Oxford Student‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-04-28:

  It's true, international success has been limited for the west. The closest taste we got to victory was in 2019 when Europe's G2 won the Mid-Season Invitational (the second biggest event in the League of Legends calendar) and came second in the World Championships, losing to China's FunPlus Pheonix in quite a brutal fashion. Despite this, every year European and North American fans turn up to tournaments in droves, bursting with 'copium' and 'hopium', and leading the charge on twitter with unrelenting boldness in their predictions and claims.

• 2022 May 11, Matthew Gault, “Crypto Is Collapsing (For Now)”, in VICE‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-13:

  Some days I think that maybe we're not all gonna make it. It's been a bad week for cryptocurrency, and as of this recording, it's only Tuesday. Bitcoin is down. Ethereum's down. Stablecoin seems not so stable. The NFT market is tanking. There's copium all around, panicked posters, and soothing souls advising everyone to buy the dip.

• 2022 October 28, John Herrman, “Twitter's Day of Spite”, in New York Magazine‎^[6], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

  The internet didn't invent taking joy in your opponents' failures, and "cope" terminology and imagery — including "copium" memes — was popularized on 4chan before flourishing on Twitter, which, in structural terms, one might understand as a whole bunch of chans trapped together in one feed.

• [2022 November 14, Jacob Stern, “PredictIt Already Won”, in The Atlantic‎^[7], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 December 2022:

  You will find bettors engaging in psychological warfare in an effort to tilt the markets in their favor ("pumps"), and you will find bettors engaging in magical thinking because markets are not tilting in their favor ("copium").]

• 2023 February 2, Rich Stanton, “Fans huff the copium as Platinum Games teases MGR:Revengeance's 10th anniversary”, in PC Gamer‎^[8], archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

  Pretty innocuous stuff but it has all fans, myself included, huffing generous amounts of copium while fantasising about filleting giant mechs with a katana. Again.

• 2023 May 19, “Worst I've Ever Been”, in Toxic Positivity‎^[9], performed by The Used:

  Copium has been confusing my own will to live