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hamplanet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From ham + planet.

Meanings

1. (Internet, derogatory) An extremely obese person, especially one prone to entitled behaviour and fat logic.
   • According to the sidebar, "This sub is a place for you to tell us about hamplanets in your life and your relationships/encounters with them. Remember that hamplanet is not just about the weight, but also the hamentality—rudeness, entitlement, fatlogic, etc. Not all fat people are hambeasts but all hambeasts are fat people". 2016 November 10, Sofia Apostolidou, Jules Sturm, “Weighing Posthumanism: Fatness and Contested Humanity”, in Social Inclusion, volume 4, number 4, Lisbon: Cogitatio Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 154:
   • Reddit is not actually protecting overweight people. Of the five forums banned, two — Fat People Hate and Ham Planet Hatred — did relate to fat-shaming. 2015 June 12, Caitlin Dewey, “Censorship, fat-shaming and the ’Reddit revolt’: How Reddit became the Alamo of the Internet’s ongoing culture war”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023:
   • Deep inside the world of Reddit is a section called r/fatpeoplestories, where 60,000 subscribers gather to invent words (like "hamplanet") and other ways to make fun of overweight people. [2014 February 24, Nuzha Nuseibeh, “The Best (And Absolute Worst) Body Campaigns”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2022:
   • Like a majority of the other FPS moderators, SometimesIArt shared that she once was a self-professed hamplanet and that many members are overweight and in the process of shedding the excess pounds. 2017, Julia A. Signorelli, Of Pumpkin Spice Lattes, Hamplanets, and Fatspeak: The venting genre as support and subversion on Reddit's r/FatPeopleStories (thesis), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, page 70:
   • And you can be damn sure fucking chumps who fit their criteria are actually responding to/validating these mentally ill cows. Even if it's just ultimately to get laid, they're still humouring these fucking deluded hamplanets 2015 January, Angela Nagle, quoting an anonymous commenter, An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements (thesis), Dublin: Dublin City University, page 118:

Forms

Synonyms

fussock · pig · tub of lard · obeast · tubba lard · lardo · hambeast · chunky monkey · fatty boombalatty · porker · tubbalard · fatty bom bom · thunder thighs · chubster · oinker · chod · landwhale · fattie · fatass · chunker · hamplanet · tubbo · lardass · lardbucket · heffalump · roly-poly · fatshit · fat-ass · butterball · fatso · whale · tub of guts · podge · chodder · swagbelly · All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled · salad dodger · fat fuck · hambeast · fatfuck · pudge · chubbs · landwhale · fatty · elephant · fat · gorbelly