I would argue that the opposite of based is not cringe but pozzed, as pozzed is an affirmative description of the identity. But perhaps that merits another column.
Where in the world did you get "Based Heads"? I'm older, and I can actually remember when free-basing cocaine became a thing, I had a friend who went down that path. It was never "Based Heads", there were "baseheads", the term having been immortalized in one of the better Public Enemy songs of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR09SP9qdA&ab_channel=PublicEnemyVEVO.
That said, I'm also old enough to remember when "Based" because a thing, and it never had anything to do with "baseheads", it was short for "opinions and views based in facts and logic".
I would argue that the opposite of based is not cringe but pozzed, as pozzed is an affirmative description of the identity. But perhaps that merits another column.
Where in the world did you get "Based Heads"? I'm older, and I can actually remember when free-basing cocaine became a thing, I had a friend who went down that path. It was never "Based Heads", there were "baseheads", the term having been immortalized in one of the better Public Enemy songs of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR09SP9qdA&ab_channel=PublicEnemyVEVO.
That said, I'm also old enough to remember when "Based" because a thing, and it never had anything to do with "baseheads", it was short for "opinions and views based in facts and logic".
I thought based was a neologism that was intended to be the opposite of debased.