I'll start with one that doesn't seem directly related but correlates so closely that I can't help seeing the "tell" as a warning: putting "kappa" in a sentence like a punctuation mark. I've never seen an online conversation that started with that tell and didn't wander into final solutions and 14 words if it went on long enough. I know it's a :freeze-gamer: thing but it's not like there isn't already a wide overlap between :freeze-gamer: and :frothingfash: .

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    get the feeling they just say furries because if you didn't begin the sentence with that people worry about you when you just spout out a graphic murder fantasy

    again it's super weird they just selected a fetish at random to have murder fantasies about.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I remember when :freeze-gamer: Gate era chuds were having digital pogroms about otherkin in particular. The modern transphobic panic has roots in it, and that's where we get the "dae le attack helicopter" eternal chud joke.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        oh I remember that. psychotically deciding to just focus targetted spite and hatred to some teenager's tumblr blog even if the whole otherkin thing was weird and a bit new agey it was ultimately harmless and just hyperfocusing hatred on it was deeply uncalled for

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          I was a bit of an edgy liberal back in the day but I take some comfort in knowing that even back then I felt deeply uncomfortable with the "hey look this is an easy target let's bully them" fad.

          When I send material to The_Dunk_Tank it's almost always about some rich fuck that could use some discomfort in their life, like :my-hero: or Chris Roberts.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I was kind of into it back then but my family didn't get a computer for some years later so I was basically into the version of it I would hear about in school

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
              hexagon
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              1 year ago

              That's understandable and I'm glad you eventually cleared out those :brainworms:

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        I always found that to be Chuddy, not least because I had a friend at the time who was and is a fairly committed otherkin. It was particularly strange seeing it come from self-proclaimed transhumanist.

        Like if you are a transhumanist and don't want people to be able to become elves if they want what are you even for? Varying forms of "Everyone is a toga-wearing elf around crystal spires of tech so advanced it looks like nature" is your entire idelolgy!

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          There's a remarkable cognitive dissonance with :my-hero: style transhumanist types. They want to live forever and have superpowers but are scared to death of d-word slurs using similar technology to be the kind of beings they always wanted to be. The brave new world can conquer the galaxy, maybe the universe, but it must be a 1950s :grillman: :us-foreign-policy: hellscape or it's wrong to them.

          • Des [she/her, they/them]
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            1 year ago

            i just want bio-genetically engineered horns and cool working demon wings because it would be sexy and fun