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Man what are you talking about, since when is boogaloo used for extremists??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement
Oh, you know, just in about half the widely publicized instances of right wing extremists committing hate crimes or domestic terrorism or what not since about 2019.
The incidents linked on this wiki page are far from exhaustive.
As wiki states, the term originated over a decade ago as basically a joke format, but was used with increasing regularity by right wing extremists in the lead up to and during the trump administration.
I guess you haven't watched much news in the last decade?
I'm from the US, that's probably the reason