I first started getting on ventrilo when I was 14. I've run into a few people younger than that over the years in various mmos, and its never really been a problem, fortunately...
Then again, at least 15 years ago we were smart enough not to link porn in an easily accessible area where kids would be playing. TBF, we also didn't have discord seemlessly displaying images/videos in the chat client.
That and my group tried a NSFW channel once... and it died within a couple of weeks of being created, so we deleted the channel. Turns out when most of your group is over 25, you know where to find porn and you don't feel the need to share it because it is not novel to see boobs on the internet.
If someone insists on pronouns, I just don't refer to them by pronouns. they only get their proper name, since they are so special and need everyone to know it. If for some reason i'm talking about the same person multiple times, it slows down the conversation so much that it really begins to grate on people, not because of me but because of the individual. Granted, I have not had many encounters with transtrenders since I moved out to the rural area, but it worked quite well back in the big city.
I can't talk too much about the similarities without getting into spoilers. There are a lot of similarities, and B5 was pitched to Paramount before Warner Brothers.
JMS(the writer for B5) never filed a lawsuit, as it would have damaged both shows more than helped. To my knowledge, DS9 tried never to acknowledge B5.
I'm inclined to think they took some of the basic framework of the idea and ran with it in their own way, making it distinct enough that both stand on their own(though B5 is frankly superior IMO, mostly because DS9 is still a star trek show with a lot of baggage that comes with that).
Thats just the issue, because social pressure will hit them from both sides and neither is pleasant. There are two ways of dealing with this: pick a side, or retreat into the family unit. Unfortunately, the latter is less possible thanks to a variety of socioeconomic factors, such as two earner households, distance between immediate amd extended family, and societal pressure to conform to the new orthodoxy.
yeah, way too early to judge it.... As I say this, the WSB discord was apparently banned.
It is as close to a household name as crypto has right now, but all my money is elsewhere right now so I'll miss this one. oh well.