Gregory's Server@toddz @bhawthorne @grumpasaurus I myself only know this because I have some cousins who have kids that are the right age, and they basically universally despise crypto (I may or may not have had a hand in that), but use based to describe everything that I would have described as "cool" at their age.
That they _also_ use "cool" is really confusing to me.
@b4ux1t3 the semantic difference in common modern usage between based and cool is really simple. Based implies a degree of defiance, an adherence to ones own way above others. But also the speaker likes it.
Cool now more explicitly means a more relaxed kind of positive connotation.