BDE is the acronym for "Big Dick Energy". if you have confidence but aren't cocky about it, you have BDE. if you are a tryhard about it, then you don't radiate BDE.

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy

Big dick energy.
Subtle, sexy confidence; confidence without cockiness

short for Big Dick Energy (from Vox): the complete security of not needing other people’s benchmarks — wealth, intelligence, beauty, or a BD — to know one’s own worth.

Any suspicion of tryhard vibes kills BDE, as does the kind of cockiness that speaks of insecurity: the true BDE-haver is respectful to those around them, but with swagger. Someone with BDE will never text an unsolicited dick pic, because it would simply never occur to them.

Big dick energy. Subtle, sexy confidence; confidence without cockiness.

Obvious acronym for Big Dick Energy.