What Does This Mean?
Social-media expression in French: « bodycount » is the lifetime number of a person's romantic or sexual partners, and « bodycount élevé » says that number is high. It circulates in TikTok videos and comment threads, sometimes as a joke or a challenge, and is criticised in the press as a loaded, unequal measure of people. This entry records the usage and register only.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Le débat sur le bodycount revient dans les commentaires de cette vidéo."
LORE & ORIGIN
RTBF, in an article dated 22 August 2023, explains that « body count » originally meant counting victims of a disaster and now, online, designates the number of a person's partners, with the #bodycount hashtag drawing hundreds of millions of TikTok views; it notes the unequal judgment applied to women. Slate.fr also covers the term and its link to masculinist circles. The exact collocation « bodycount élevé » is a recent usage; no dated source found yet for its first appearance.
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