Phrase Meaning – What Does ‘Channelling Your Inner Cupcakke’ Mean?

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This was from a meme group on Facebook. I commented on a post entitled "how many is your battery percentage" where there were options. Each option was meant to be a weapon to defend myself from Michael Myers. Then a guy replied to my comment. He wrote:

You're just channelling your inner cupcakke.

Thus doesn't make any sense, in my view. I think, did he mean to say cupcake instead of cupcakke? Isn't it some kind of dessert?

I also googled the term channelling your inner and I came up with this. Still don't understand!

Best Answer

As mentioned in the links on that forum thread you found, to channel here means:

  1. (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
    He was trying to channel President Reagan, but the audience wasn't buying it.
    When it is my turn to sing karaoke, I am going to channel Ray Charles.

The phrase "channel your inner [noun]" is a metaphor, as if there is some "hidden" or "inner" [noun] that you can channel, that is, allow to be expressed more so than it usually would be. For example, if you want to cook a nice meal for your partner, you might "channel your inner chef" and allow that part of you which enjoys cooking good food to be expressed. If you want to pump yourself up before playing in a football game you might "channel your inner warrior."

In this context I would definitely say that the person meant to type "You're just channeling your inner cupcake." A cupcake, literally, is a sweet pastry food; by extension it can be used as an insult:

  1. (slang) A weak or effeminate man. [synonyms: cockney, pansy, sissy]

I'm not sure what exactly you said that would cause him to respond like that, but presumably it was not sufficiently "macho."

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