Intellectual Masochist

Intellectual masochist: is someone who seeks out mentally painful or exhausting scenarios - complex problems with no good solutions, philosophical paradoxes, depressing truths, cognitive dissonance - and engages with them voluntarily and even finds some satisfaction in the struggle itself. Like, most people avoid thinking about "will the AI revolution lead to my genocide faster or slower" because it's fucking depressing and paralyzing.

An intellectual masochist goes "hmm, let me really dig into this, map out all the scenarios, test the AI systems, have the hard conversations" - not because it feels good, but because wrestling with hard truths is preferable to comfortable ignorance.

Sentence: As an intellectual masochist, she found herself compulsively drawn to the bleakest climate change models, preferring the grim satisfaction of understanding the full scope of the catastrophe to the uneasy comfort of willful ignorance.

by Evaler8 October 3, 2025

Masochist

I have no idea what it means but Keegan said it

“I’m like a social Masochist” -Keegan
Others: hahaha I’m going to quote that

by Aleccc July 4, 2021

Masochist

The one chip challenge.

The act of doing something for the pain because pain is happiness.

A:How do you know he's a masochist

B:he did the one chip challenge.

by Philljohn June 7, 2024

Masochist

When someone want's to play league but also not.

Person 1: "Damn, I want to play league but also don't right now."
Person 2: "That's called being a masochist."

by Mysteea April 6, 2021

ethno-masochist

Someone who hates his own race or feels inferior to another

"The teacher is such an ethno-masochist, she shouldn't be teaching"

by DZEDD September 10, 2021

chaotic masochist

A person who dervies some form of pleasure, be it happiness or something else, from doing incredibly hard things, such as playing games on the hardest difficulty, or simply just likes large explosions and excess of things.

I am a chaotic masochist, and I love explosions and incredibly difficult math. Ultimately, I'm always up for the hardest challenge, and love destruction.

Dude, he's such a chaotic masochist, he plays every game with a difficulty setting on the hardest one, and can't stop building things is games that make massive explosions. He evens finds excitement in doing math I could never do it's so long. No, he doesn't get sexual gratification, just shear joy at the thought of something that masochistic.

by 711 mechy gamer September 22, 2021

Masochists

Masochists are fuckin retards who enjoy pain for secual pleasure (get physical and mental treatment you fuckin scrubs)

"Masochists are retarded"

by Kitkatisonline August 21, 2023