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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• boobs_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks to me like it’s making fun of the really bad brain worms that permeate the trans 4chan community. There’s a very specific type of brain wormed in-group jargon being made fun of here. The orange stick figure is saying they’ll never be orange but we can clearly see they’re just… orange. The brain worms are so bad that they believe even while being orange, they aren’t actually

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  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just knowing about 4chan and the kind of people that use the place, that seems like one of the most harmful places on the internet for trans people. It’s honestly shocking that there’s so much of a community there.

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    • boobs_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Consider that people before transition are not necessarily any different from any other people. You can have very racist, transphobic, alt-right people secretly harboring trans feelings themselves. Sometimes people will turn to those spaces as a coping mechanism and then they become entrenched and invested in the communities. Just because they eventually finally accept their transness doesn’t mean they’re willing to let go of it entirely or the personality archetype they’ve developed as a part of it. If they leave it entirely just because they transitioned them maybe they don’t have another community they feel enough a part of to fall back on. Everyone needs and wants some sort of feeling of community even when it isn’t good for them. It can be very hard to break out of toxic spaces when it’s the only space you know and it’s practically defined you as a person, sometimes for most people’s adult lives

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, it’s poking fun at incels and their 4chan jargon.

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, what does ‘grayscalemoding’ mean then?

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s a replacement for boymoding

      Boymoding is the act of presenting masculine, especially in the context of a transfeminine individual presenting masculine to avoid transphobic harassment.

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    • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Presumably being less orange in some way. None of it actually means anything, all of Orange's words are a parody of that incel terminology, it's just that in the comic being orange or green is a desirable characteristic

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• WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like it to me based what I’ve seen of people poking fun at the toxic trans 4chan stuff.

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