Just the usual insecure search for praise and accolades for simply existing that these groups frequently roleplay. They'll rally around, talk about how "stunning and brave™" the OP is, then they'll scour the comments for people who slip up in some way to sacrifice -- so they can all join together in a virtue party.
Must have been a super tough decision to come to. Thank goodness Animal Crossing was around to help make such an important life decision so easy.
Years prowling the dark recesses of the internet can change a person... Make them notice certain things -- patterns. Like a sixth sense, you'll intuitively understand the pernicious mindset of self-designated pariahs, and then bear witness as they gleefully self-destruct and then castigate others for it. It's a dark world... and like Nietzsche said: "When you stare into the abyss... etc. etc."
I'm kidding, of course. Although, It'd be funnier if it sadly wasn't somewhat true!
But really, see anything enough, ya know? These types all seem to be the same.
"It was a place where I could make a little avatar that looked like me (or at least a big-headed skinny version of me) and experiment with hairstyles and fashion. I realized how much happier I felt when my character was dressed in a feminine way. Also I tried on the Tiara hair when I was on a friend's island and he told me I looked pretty and boy, that brought up a LOT of emotions.
Obviously AC wasn't the ONLY thing that helped me realize... I'd been kind of aware for a long time and actively questioning for a few months, but it was a place that I could explore these feelings at a time when I really needed to."
I was a Pokemon in Mystery Dungeon, so I decided to become a Lizardon. I thought it was really cool how I could use these powerful fire attacks and people thought it was cool that I could beat anything in one attack because I had eaten so many gummies.
I hate the spoiled fucking mindset these kids have. "If it feels good then it must be beneficial." No, no its really not. Just because you got all the feels because your "friend" said you looked cute with a tiara on doesn't mean you should run out and immediately get sex reassignment surgery. Being trans isn't inherently good, it just means you have a mental disorder and need to figure out how to work through that. Its nothing to be proud of any more than anxiety and depression are.
If they didn't draw others into their insanity, I'd be fine with this. Peer contagion is a real thing, though, and most of us have a period of vulnerability where we have self-acceptance issues, usually during adolescence. It's important to actively push back on trannies, so that people aren't lured to the snakeoil they're selling for what are standard growing pains.
That's the part that upsets me the most. If they wanted to wade out into the world and deal with all the consequences of such, it would be one thing.
But no, its always "POSITIVITY" and "YOU WILL BE SILENCED IF YOU DISSENT FROM REINFORCEMENT." Not a thing can be criticized or even slightly out of lockstep.
"I'm a guy and I love how Animal Crossing lets me just wear skirts and stuff and nobody cares. :3 I really don't think I'm trans but it's nice having gender expectations just, like, removed."
Just wear a fucking skirt, dude.
"Just as a note, being a trans woman/man/person doesn't always mean that they want to have full physical transformation. Honestly, the point for a lot of people is when they identify as whatever their correct gender is. It has no direct relation to what they wear or how they look overall. Those can be factors of representation, but it's all down to how a person views themselves."
"...when they identify as..."
"when"
So it's a choice and "trans-whatever" aren't really whatever.
Because you’re getting a group of likeminded people together, and groupthink tends to kick in. In some cases it can be decent, e.g. here, and in other cases, you get a couple of rotten apples that affects the entire barrel as it were.
As a random example back on Reddit, it was hilarious when someone on my fave book series subreddit did an analysis of where else people posted. There were the usual other places like fantasy, other similar authors, and then the original KIA popped up as well. The book series had a very strong theme of personal freedom and generally being opposed to authority, something that apparently went along with posting on KIA back in the day before the mods went retarded, and it was kinda hilarious seeing some of the fandom implode when the data came in.
Something about personal responsability, opposing Politically Correct gaslighting and fee-feels regarding weight, and calling out the constant bullshit and pandering lies plastered all over the media drew people to both.
Oh mocking the grifters appealing to victimhood culture to demand lucrative gigs and "representation" in both.
I didn't frequent the Dresden Files sub because there were a lot of SJW-types that hung out over there (along with the incessant bullshit posts about Mantles, Titles, and similar garbage) so I must've missed that. I find it hilarious that they'd get all bent over there when they saw the KIA-posters show up in the poll results, as I'm sure the alt I used to post to KIA would have shown up in those listings.
There is a high chance the soy dude does not have gender dysphoria. There is no way that you do not know you are trans until you play a fking game. Either this is a strong genetic/mental issue or it is a simple fetish.
And 40k are encouraging this fake shit.
I saw a similar situation occur with a dude I'd known for 20+ years, from my college days forward. Guy was as normal as any geek-hobby friend I ever had. He got married, had two kids with a wife he loved, and as a joint hobby they both joined the Society for Creative Anachronism (they were both into fantasy and medieval stuff). Unfortunately, the SCA around this area has largely turned into an SJW cesspool, and I saw him spiral into being a self-loathing, man-hating, flagellant apologist. Flash forward another couple years and he suddenly decides he's trans, despite having never shown any evidence he had dysphoria. Fortunately for his kids they were 18+ at this point, so the impact on them was less than it could have been, but (s)he eventually ended up divorcing the wife and moving out, and then started e-begging for help with the rent and expenses. Dude needed a therapist, not a Ko-Fi for hormone treatments. I figure within a few more years he'll be detransitioning as the local vultures move on to new targets.
It totally was, and if you looked back through his Facebook history you could see the indoctrination and downward spiral. He went from posting normal hobby and personal stuff to dropping stuff that was pro-feminist, anti-patriarchy, and apologizing for his "male privilege". From there it was pro-LGBT stuff, then pro-Trans stuff, and then at the end of one year he posted something about being true to yourself and he dropped that account to start posting under his new name on a new account. Following up on that, "she" has descended even further into new-age lunacy, to the point where "she" believes that "she" is some sort of channel for a goddess machine spirit and that "her" My Little Pony dolls are the avatars of that spirit, that literally communicate with "her". The dude needs some serious mental health counseling and likely some drugs to go with an inpatient stay in the nuthouse so he can be deprogrammed.
I had no idea who the heck that was, so I Googled him and found the Know Your Meme entry. Jeebus, that was a shitshow of a read. The guy I know isn't half that ate up, but after seeing this garbage that was posted to a FB group "she" created, I'm starting to wonder.
Yeah theres's a guy on youtube called geno samuel 2.1 who is doing a docuseries on him. He's on part 41 and is reaching the halfway point of the story.
That is scary stuff. The dude needs a therapist to get his shit in order not online support from a bunch of virtual signaling narcissists who do not give 2c about him or his family.
The problem is not that the guy is an idiot. It is the amount of people cheering him on without telling him to get his shit together and get to a psychiatrist ASAP. Being trans is not like getting a freaking tattoo. And I understand the dude has a wife and a kid.
I once played Black and White and I really liked playing as a god. It felt natural to me and I was so much happier. I now only need for the rest of the world to confirm my chosen identity and enable my delusion.
IKR? There's a reason why there's the joke of "MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls" - Back when I used to play as a female mage in WoW it was just to soak free shit out of thirsty dudes who would pony up loot just because OMG A GURL. I guess it wasn't because of that or the fact that I'd rather stare at a female avatar's ass for umpteen hours while playing. Nope, apparently I was thinking about lopping off my junk and prancing around in makeup.
85 lb middle aged woman = male Tauren hunter. Because it's fun to be a big guy with a big gun. I also had an alt who was a wispy female Blood Elf warrior with a big axe, who had red hair, because I thought it would be amusing.
Fantasy games are for playing out fantasies .. right? Who wants to be "themselves" in a fantasy game?
On top of that, it's baffling to me that anyone would scream for NPCs or PCs that are classified as "trans" in a fantasy world that's high-magic, because it's a short jump to assume that there would be magic in said world that could flip someone's gender from M-to-F or F-to-M. Hell, D&D had magical items that would do that years ago. Granted, those were usually treated as "cursed" items because they would make the PC's life hell until they could either get new armor and weapons or get the curse removed, but who's to say that a character with dysmorphia wouldn't just hunt down one of those so they could flip permanently? A savvy DM could even make that the nature of a quest for the players if they were so inclined.
As far as PC go, if you're a dude waning to play as a wispy female elf, go for it. Woman that wants to play as a beefy male dwarf berserker? You do you. You can pick your gender from the jump, so be what you want to be. That's the whole point of something fantastic in nature - you make it all up as you go.
Go play Cyberpunk and equip yourself with a retractable cyber-dick, I guess. You know they're going to lose their shit even more than they already have over that game once it finally drops.
Just the usual insecure search for praise and accolades for simply existing that these groups frequently roleplay. They'll rally around, talk about how "stunning and brave™" the OP is, then they'll scour the comments for people who slip up in some way to sacrifice -- so they can all join together in a virtue party.
Must have been a super tough decision to come to. Thank goodness Animal Crossing was around to help make such an important life decision so easy.
Years prowling the dark recesses of the internet can change a person... Make them notice certain things -- patterns. Like a sixth sense, you'll intuitively understand the pernicious mindset of self-designated pariahs, and then bear witness as they gleefully self-destruct and then castigate others for it. It's a dark world... and like Nietzsche said: "When you stare into the abyss... etc. etc."
I'm kidding, of course. Although, It'd be funnier if it sadly wasn't somewhat true!
But really, see anything enough, ya know? These types all seem to be the same.
Nice summary.
"It was a place where I could make a little avatar that looked like me (or at least a big-headed skinny version of me) and experiment with hairstyles and fashion. I realized how much happier I felt when my character was dressed in a feminine way. Also I tried on the Tiara hair when I was on a friend's island and he told me I looked pretty and boy, that brought up a LOT of emotions.
Obviously AC wasn't the ONLY thing that helped me realize... I'd been kind of aware for a long time and actively questioning for a few months, but it was a place that I could explore these feelings at a time when I really needed to."
I was a Pokemon in Mystery Dungeon, so I decided to become a Lizardon. I thought it was really cool how I could use these powerful fire attacks and people thought it was cool that I could beat anything in one attack because I had eaten so many gummies.
I hate the spoiled fucking mindset these kids have. "If it feels good then it must be beneficial." No, no its really not. Just because you got all the feels because your "friend" said you looked cute with a tiara on doesn't mean you should run out and immediately get sex reassignment surgery. Being trans isn't inherently good, it just means you have a mental disorder and need to figure out how to work through that. Its nothing to be proud of any more than anxiety and depression are.
Let them kill themselves
If they didn't draw others into their insanity, I'd be fine with this. Peer contagion is a real thing, though, and most of us have a period of vulnerability where we have self-acceptance issues, usually during adolescence. It's important to actively push back on trannies, so that people aren't lured to the snakeoil they're selling for what are standard growing pains.
Some piece of shit providing an example of what you are talking about, peer contagion, from that very thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossing/comments/i5n8c9/animal_crossing_helped_me_realize_that_i_was/g0qsm0n/
That's fucked up.
That's the part that upsets me the most. If they wanted to wade out into the world and deal with all the consequences of such, it would be one thing.
But no, its always "POSITIVITY" and "YOU WILL BE SILENCED IF YOU DISSENT FROM REINFORCEMENT." Not a thing can be criticized or even slightly out of lockstep.
It does sound like one. Why not?
Peak reddit praising this.
The comments are retarded as well:
"I'm a guy and I love how Animal Crossing lets me just wear skirts and stuff and nobody cares. :3 I really don't think I'm trans but it's nice having gender expectations just, like, removed."
Just wear a fucking skirt, dude.
"Just as a note, being a trans woman/man/person doesn't always mean that they want to have full physical transformation. Honestly, the point for a lot of people is when they identify as whatever their correct gender is. It has no direct relation to what they wear or how they look overall. Those can be factors of representation, but it's all down to how a person views themselves."
"...when they identify as..."
"when"
So it's a choice and "trans-whatever" aren't really whatever.
Absolute faggotry.
Shiet, i guess im a trans too since all my WoW characters were hot female Blood Elves!
He. Not she. Don't feed into the delusion.
Cripes, dude, the vision of Donahue in an ugly long "pentacostal" skirt still burns my mind's eye.
What gets me is that someone plays the opposite sex in a game and automagically thinks they're trans ... such brainwashing.
Or don't. Please don't.
Do kilts count as skirts? Scottish clansmen were chads after all.
Why are fandoms such cancerous masses of degenerates? Chances are this dude probably has a crossdressing fetish or is a trans trender.
Fuck it. I slay dragons in skyrim thus I choose to come out as a dragonborn IRL.
Because you’re getting a group of likeminded people together, and groupthink tends to kick in. In some cases it can be decent, e.g. here, and in other cases, you get a couple of rotten apples that affects the entire barrel as it were.
As a random example back on Reddit, it was hilarious when someone on my fave book series subreddit did an analysis of where else people posted. There were the usual other places like fantasy, other similar authors, and then the original KIA popped up as well. The book series had a very strong theme of personal freedom and generally being opposed to authority, something that apparently went along with posting on KIA back in the day before the mods went retarded, and it was kinda hilarious seeing some of the fandom implode when the data came in.
KiA also had an overlap with Fatlogic.
Something about personal responsability, opposing Politically Correct gaslighting and fee-feels regarding weight, and calling out the constant bullshit and pandering lies plastered all over the media drew people to both.
Oh mocking the grifters appealing to victimhood culture to demand lucrative gigs and "representation" in both.
Dresden, I saw that too
Yeah, it was a shitshow there with so much false info. There’s only so much arguing with idiots you can do there though.
I didn't frequent the Dresden Files sub because there were a lot of SJW-types that hung out over there (along with the incessant bullshit posts about Mantles, Titles, and similar garbage) so I must've missed that. I find it hilarious that they'd get all bent over there when they saw the KIA-posters show up in the poll results, as I'm sure the alt I used to post to KIA would have shown up in those listings.
There is a high chance the soy dude does not have gender dysphoria. There is no way that you do not know you are trans until you play a fking game. Either this is a strong genetic/mental issue or it is a simple fetish.
And 40k are encouraging this fake shit.
I originally read this as Games Workshop was encouraging this fake shit. Thanks for clarifying.
You were not the only one. They've been showing signs of infiltration lately.
Well to be fair, the post didn't say that they only discovered his feelings until playing the game.
If you check the profile, dude claims to also have a wife and child.
So we are past supportive and now into forcing a kid to deal with someone this broken from reality and delusional.
I saw a similar situation occur with a dude I'd known for 20+ years, from my college days forward. Guy was as normal as any geek-hobby friend I ever had. He got married, had two kids with a wife he loved, and as a joint hobby they both joined the Society for Creative Anachronism (they were both into fantasy and medieval stuff). Unfortunately, the SCA around this area has largely turned into an SJW cesspool, and I saw him spiral into being a self-loathing, man-hating, flagellant apologist. Flash forward another couple years and he suddenly decides he's trans, despite having never shown any evidence he had dysphoria. Fortunately for his kids they were 18+ at this point, so the impact on them was less than it could have been, but (s)he eventually ended up divorcing the wife and moving out, and then started e-begging for help with the rent and expenses. Dude needed a therapist, not a Ko-Fi for hormone treatments. I figure within a few more years he'll be detransitioning as the local vultures move on to new targets.
That is some scary cult like story.
It totally was, and if you looked back through his Facebook history you could see the indoctrination and downward spiral. He went from posting normal hobby and personal stuff to dropping stuff that was pro-feminist, anti-patriarchy, and apologizing for his "male privilege". From there it was pro-LGBT stuff, then pro-Trans stuff, and then at the end of one year he posted something about being true to yourself and he dropped that account to start posting under his new name on a new account. Following up on that, "she" has descended even further into new-age lunacy, to the point where "she" believes that "she" is some sort of channel for a
goddessmachine spirit and that "her" My Little Pony dolls are the avatars of that spirit, that literally communicate with "her". The dude needs some serious mental health counseling and likely some drugs to go with an inpatient stay in the nuthouse so he can be deprogrammed.Wow you know chris chan?
I had no idea who the heck that was, so I Googled him and found the Know Your Meme entry. Jeebus, that was a shitshow of a read. The guy I know isn't half that ate up, but after seeing this garbage that was posted to a FB group "she" created, I'm starting to wonder.
Yeah theres's a guy on youtube called geno samuel 2.1 who is doing a docuseries on him. He's on part 41 and is reaching the halfway point of the story.
If I ever go that way please someone shoot me.
That is scary stuff. The dude needs a therapist to get his shit in order not online support from a bunch of virtual signaling narcissists who do not give 2c about him or his family.
Its pretty sad what todays youth is going through...
The guy is a full grown dude with a wife and child.
These freaks are so cringey it makes me sick but I also wonder if it's fake and the dude is just karma farming
On the plus side the op who posted this cancer won't be around for very much longer
Just an idiot
The problem is not that the guy is an idiot. It is the amount of people cheering him on without telling him to get his shit together and get to a psychiatrist ASAP. Being trans is not like getting a freaking tattoo. And I understand the dude has a wife and a kid.
I once played Black and White and I really liked playing as a god. It felt natural to me and I was so much happier. I now only need for the rest of the world to confirm my chosen identity and enable my delusion.
IKR? There's a reason why there's the joke of "MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls" - Back when I used to play as a female mage in WoW it was just to soak free shit out of thirsty dudes who would pony up loot just because OMG A GURL. I guess it wasn't because of that or the fact that I'd rather stare at a female avatar's ass for umpteen hours while playing. Nope, apparently I was thinking about lopping off my junk and prancing around in makeup.
85 lb middle aged woman = male Tauren hunter. Because it's fun to be a big guy with a big gun. I also had an alt who was a wispy female Blood Elf warrior with a big axe, who had red hair, because I thought it would be amusing.
Fantasy games are for playing out fantasies .. right? Who wants to be "themselves" in a fantasy game?
On top of that, it's baffling to me that anyone would scream for NPCs or PCs that are classified as "trans" in a fantasy world that's high-magic, because it's a short jump to assume that there would be magic in said world that could flip someone's gender from M-to-F or F-to-M. Hell, D&D had magical items that would do that years ago. Granted, those were usually treated as "cursed" items because they would make the PC's life hell until they could either get new armor and weapons or get the curse removed, but who's to say that a character with dysmorphia wouldn't just hunt down one of those so they could flip permanently? A savvy DM could even make that the nature of a quest for the players if they were so inclined.
As far as PC go, if you're a dude waning to play as a wispy female elf, go for it. Woman that wants to play as a beefy male dwarf berserker? You do you. You can pick your gender from the jump, so be what you want to be. That's the whole point of something fantastic in nature - you make it all up as you go.
Edwin/Edwina from BG2 was so freaking hilarious.
I had both female and male characters. I am so confused, what am I suppose to do now? Get a legos penis or something?
Go play Cyberpunk and equip yourself with a retractable cyber-dick, I guess. You know they're going to lose their shit even more than they already have over that game once it finally drops.
The real reason is because you and every straight male would prefer to look at a hot female character as opposed to a male one.