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1. 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 07:32:33 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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   It’s crazy to think that even the most autistic of the nerd scenes was more normal than a mainstream nerd scene is today nearly 8-10 years ago, but in that time:

   • Social media, and websites that focused around nerd culture didn’t just go political, but they went all in on it.
   • While there was a lot of entryism (highlighted by Anita being caught on tape saying she didn’t play games years before her video series, Brianna Wu injecting itself into GG, and on the other side all the ecelebs who used GG for clout from Milo to Ethan Ralph to PJW to QuarterPounder), the hard truth nobody wants to admit is that everyone wound up picking sides, if not before GG during it. Case in point, when Sam Hyde was a lot more political and provocative in 2016-7 around the time of the world peace saga with [a:s], I remember him saying something that it was literally impossible to be in comedy and all and apolitical around this time.
   • In the furry “fandom” in particular, they didn’t just go turbo political but they went political harder and faster than everyone else. Cons were shut down because of people threatening each other, or at least harassing the shit out of hotels and con operators and attendees. By the time the COVID scare hit, the fandom was pretty damn good about virtue signaling the {current thing}.
   • Everyone and their grandma decided they were transgender seemingly. Anyone who can describe 2016-8 can describe one thing other than the meltdowns over Trump winning and the two minutes hate over CVille, or Twitter purges: it was not uncommon for entire discord chats to “come out” as trans one by one, with an entire framework there to harass you or cut you off if you spoke out about the dangers.
   • When the COVID scare happened, furries went all out to ensure that those not pure would not stay in their community. Aside from harassing every single person who wouldn’t virtue signal for George Floyd, the fandom was very self policing about wrongthinkers since that political shitstorm I’ve alluded to. They would literally dox and harass any furry who dared to consider holding a furmeet during the height of the COVID scare. But when cons began again, they were literally having over the top shows to make sure that you had vaccination proof and masked at all times.
   • A lot of furries, tired of both these issues and the autismlord behavior of furries, decided to call it quits with the “fandom”. The rest are getting eaten alive, refusing to just find another community.