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'Based' means that you are very proud of what you have done and what you are doing and that you don't care what anyone else thinks.
It's like if IDGAF (I don't give a fuck) was an adjective.
I used to not like to learn these 'new' terms myself, but this one is an objectively positive to the human language.
I don't see the point of denying the growth of a language in my lifetime just because I become older. I hated it when my parents did it, and they hated when their parents did it... so I'm breaking the cycle