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[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They’re different things. Movember still exists. NNN started as a meme evolving from the nofap movement only because of alliteration.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

your reminder that NNN was created because the adherents thought it would give them magical powers.

thing is a mental illness top to bottom

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like if youre still a virgin when you turn 30?

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There was a crazy semen retention subreddit that was just filled with paragraphs about how not cumming gave them super powers.

It was very weird.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

It's almost cultlike, very unsettling.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

kinda. IIRC some greentext 4chan anon said it gave them superhuman concentration which kicked it off.

Probably it just meant they concentrated normally without jerking off 10 times a day

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The "nofap movement" are a bunch of incels with cancerous prostates.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

And even more cancerous subredit