ain't your buddy, pal!

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

Washington and idaho as well apprently.
- I am from Seattle.
  Anecdotally:
  This is correct.
  People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I've ever been in the US.
Howzit, braddah?!
Same

Interesting. Can we have have at least a tiny bit of info how this data came to be?

Not just this one, but all the infographs, maps etc. Always leave entirely open if someone just guessed the data for the lulz.

This makes me a litte sad sometimes

https://qz.com/316906/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros
- So the map is more accurately titled "How American Twitter users refer..."
- Thanks! I think it would be a great rule of thumb for lemmy to always include sauce and especially the sidefacts about the data that relativize it. (See other replies)
  Less shiny maybe, but more real :)

People in Washington don't refer to each others.

Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)

I thought America was mostly NTSC

Seattle Freeze is REAL

nice maps, homes!

what happened to man... as in hey man.

Can't afford the ticket. . . . BACK TO SUFFRAGETTE CITY
Hey man (nice shot) - they are back, with their last album August 2023.
I don't know, my man.
- that is cool, maaan. you tha man ! oh maaaan did you see those protests in US ?

Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"

I dunno my guy.

I’m not your bro, pal.

So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?

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I love that New England doesn't show a preference for any of the choices. My theory: Boston throws off the curve with "asshole" and "fucker" and the data scientists didn't want to cover cursing.

Masshole.
New England always on top, in our own way; confusing to those who aren't from around here.

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

Don't forget "guy" and "chief".

they forgor 💀

Further down the article this screen’s taken from, they show the raw data they got for “dude”, and its usage is pretty much everywhere.

I don't know why but "fella" sounds old fashioned to me.

Cause ya ain't from the south
- I'm not from the US either, lol

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

I was upset that Kentucky didn't have much coverage, but then I realized that "Hosscat" wasn't one of the choices.

People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don't have friends.

Liv3 WA, can confirm.
Or Florida.
But actually it checks out for WA
- Florida has a few bros.
- I was thinking the north west was looking pretty bare too. Some in Montana, but that’s all.

The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

Having male friends in Georgia is too homoerotic for their sensibilities.

West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guys.” I use those way more than “dude” lol

ok broseph

I'm not your pal, guy!

I'm not your guy buddeh!

Been ‘dude’ for me as long as I’ve been alive.

People really say "fella"? It seems centered around Louisiana?

You can call me Al.

Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?

You have some strange buddies.
- I never call them buddies, idk, that just sounds wrong.

Anything goes in Michigan.

The last two aren't really used here.
- Guess I'm not your pal, fella.

Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.

We do not. So that is accurate!

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

Georgians have no friends.

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?

they are kinda a gender neutral.
Bro is fairly commonly used as gender neutral word.
Man (as in my man) does not have an equivalent (my person does not havve the ring) - but originally, man was the gender neutral term for persons, and we user mer (as in mermaid) / were (as in werewolf) for males. that is how man was used. But that very well could also be due to bias in writing and archiving of stuff, I don not know much about this.
I use "fam".
I'm old, but my even older inlaws refer to each other affectionately as "person."
People say "dude" is neutral, but you don't often see it used when all the dudes are women, and the existence of "dudette" also implies it's not.
"Friend" maybe but could sound sarcastic.
Come to think of it, all these terms are ripe for sarcastic use. In fact, I'd like to see the map of antibrotymology. Which of the above is used the way Wolverine uses "Bub"?
man is short for human
- Hu-man from Earth

The top three are used in California.

I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers "Thanks Buddy")

In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people "Homie" and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.

I really wonder where "Homie" fits into this

So, we're no longer using 'stud?'

Only for bros with benefits.

Chief…

My buddy in Atlanta would like a word.

Which word?
"Stud?"
"My man?"
"Cuz?"
- You know that I'm crazy 'bout dem cupcakes, cousin!
They have a word, you just can't say it

Massachusetts has much more dude than this.

I'm super curious about that hole in Texas for "dude."

Fella is now a warning word.

Michigan is all about it.

bruh

In Florida I mainly hear the top 3.
Bottom 2 would probably get an odd look.
That's really interesting I never thought that something as simple as "bro" would be different in different states

My Dude!

Fella 4 life

https://media.tenor.com/qZXJ8qoEJTcAAAAM/friends-joey.gif

Colorado markedly absent as most people polled were likely from elsewhere and as such brought their own vernacular

I love that Ohio is purple in all of these