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Because I'm that guy: "hanged"
(disclaimer: language is a fluid construct, talk however you want, there's no one "right" way to speak, some of us just enjoy being pedantic assholes)
Nah hung is right. Matt just took some penis enlargement pills.
Because I'm also that guy: both are correct.
It's true that you should only used hanged to refer to hanging a person, but it's not incorrect to use hung in that case.
Source 1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/hung-or-hanged
Source 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA
Depends if you mean 'he suspended himself from a rope' or 'he comitted suicide'
Maybe we should not care how 18th century cowboys pronounced things
I don't, I care about the language as it exists today.
To (badly) paraphrase Pratchett, "A person is hanged, meat is hung. [...] First he was hanged. Then he was hung."
Did you hear about the plastic surgeon that hung himself?