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4chan is back up! I'm so happy!
I... feel like that says something bad about me, that 4chan is basically the only place left on the internet where I feel at home. (this place is also good, but I do feel a bit out of place here). So many places these days are either enforced, toxic positivity (reddit) or worshipping a single influencer (most other social media). 4chan lets me speak my mind, and I feel like the people there actually get me. I'm a depressed, aging, alcoholic weeb so 4chan is very much "my people." But I can't help but feel like the people there are, weirdly, smarter than a lot of internet sites these days.
A lolcow on Twitter the other day said there's two kinds of trans people. There's Reddit trans and there's 4chan trans. And then I was enlightened.
I think on redit and similar sites, people look to ttans as a gender and political identity. On 4chan, people are just into it as a weird sex fetish. And 4channers are very tolerant of weird sex fetishes. (Arguably too tolerant)
IMO the 4chan transes are older and a little more doomed about it. But also possibly were into trans before it was cool. In the old days it took actual work and guts to research and source and take gray market hormones. You're probably cool AF to do that with no social support at all.
Nowadays, any retard can get hormones if they say "trans" and they are also more likely to hang out on Reddit.
Probably think of it like an alternate universe where, after years of being in the shadows, bodybuilders were validated for wanting to be swole and doctors would write RXes for as much steroids as you can handle, covered by insurance. That generation of broscientists would be SO annoying. And they would be all over Reddit while the OG bodybuilders stuck to 4chan.
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