Anon pretends to be a girl online

As we used to say, "MMORPG means Many Men Online Role-playing Girls".
Which has went in a couple different directions, looking back.
- Ah, the Internet. A place where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
  
  And the moderators have beards. Women too
- GIRL is also an acronym for Guy In Real Life.

I can remember the Yahoo chat rooms of the 90's. It's always been doods cybering lesbian sex with each other.
- Scissor me xerces
  
  Scissor me timbers
- I put on my robe and wizard hat
- I can confirm it happened at least once in MSN too 😬
  
  why would you do this to me david
- The ones who kinda knew but kept doing it 🙈🙈💀💀

There are no girls on the internet
- The Internet: Where men are men, women are men and the children are FBI agents.
  
  We've always been trans-inclusive.
  
  On the internet, anyone who claims to be a woman is really a man. Anyone who claims to be a man is really a child. Anyone who claims to be a child is really an FBI agent.
- Expected this to be higher on urban dictionary, it's on the end of 2nd page.
- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- It's funny because you can kind of tell based on the username. I'll tell you right now, almost no guy is going to pick "Bb2" or "quackypeach" as their name

- Two dudes cybering lesbian porn at each other describes half the content of Literotica.

Welcome to the internet
- Have a look around...
  
  anything that brain of yours can think of can be found...
- When I first read those lyrics, the energy I expected was not "manic carnival barker."
  Every single part of Inside turned out to hit harder than I expected.

Pretending to be a girl for free handouts in MMOs was peak metagaming.
- I had a friend get a fucking voice changer just to keep the lies going when he did that in D&Donline. It still irritates me that it actually worked. Dude was rolling in gifts and invites.
  
  Egg in real life? How far did he take it? Did he wear a cat-ear hairband, slather himself in oil, and meow?

Eventually they'll both think a little more deeply about why they """pretended""" to be girls online. 🤔 😊
- Loneliness
  
  Ever deliberately let yourself get catfished by an insta "girl" just because they'll listen to you and act interested in your life for a while?
  Because I haven't.
  
  I'm sure that's all it is. 😉
- There's a reason transbian is a word
  
  Any transbian places to recommend?
- Name checks out

The tale as old as the internet.

Those guys scissored so hard they bought a Subaru together

Literally the first episode of Sword Art Online
- You watched a very different SAO
  
  No, when the villain switches everyone's custom avatars to their irl bodies, one girl couple you saw in an earlier scene is revealed to both be dudes to both dude's surprise. I think there's another scene a few episodes later showing both dudes still hanging out with each other. Just background stuff.

There is a bad bitch inside of all of us lowkey. But at least in RPGs I like to be a chick because I usually like the clothing options.
- I've always said, if you're going to stare at someone's ass for the next 200 hours...
  
  Baldur's gate made a whole lot of believers; every character in that game is hot as fuck, including the horned demon lady. Especially the horned demon lady.
- and for FPS being a bad bitch means you'll have a smaller hit box 😅

Now kith

I feel like there are so many dudes who'd fall in love if only both parties were women, and that's beautiful...
- Why is that beautiful? Sounds pretty obvious to me. If some of my dude friends were actually women, I'd love to be in a relationship with them. They're cool dudes.
- All the straight boys you know have probably at some poiot been devastated to remember they are tecnnically not lesbians, because dick.
  
  I had someone tell me "He/Him Lesbians" were a thing recently and they weren't referring to FTM Transguys either (Which I was relieved by as that would be a horribly offensive thing to call that crowd since a lesbian is a woman who exclusively is attracted to other women, and FTMs are NOT women.) Somedays I just don't know if I'm getting too old and set in my ways or if the world has just lost the plot.
  These days I just kinda "nod" at things and go along with them even if I don't agree or understand, within reason of course. (i'm not going to let anyone take fucking dieting advice from a breatharian)
  
  Seriously though
  The feminine (and, by extension, lesbian) is constantly portrayed in such a sweet and gentle way and masculine us always so rough that I can't help but say "lesbian relationships to me, please"
  And I'm a guy.
  Where tf did we lose those cute gentle hetero relationships and representation? Okay there's GFD, but barely anyone notices it and it's strictly about women taking the lead and mostly sexual, which is only one side of the story.

This is the meet cute for a bi rom com, right?

I'm just gonna leave this here in case it changes somebody's life: https://medium.com/the-identity-current/plight-of-the-transbian-4ab1a048b09b
- This was a sweet, wonderful read, thank you
  
  I am a happily being a guy but I identified with Samuel in that story more than I ever would have guessed would have been possible. I have always been jealous of how easy it is for women to make friends and how tender their friendship are. I have never gotten along with macho guys and multiple times in my life people thought I was gay (I am only attracted to women, I just want tender friendships like women have with each other)...

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- just to get items
  also some minor mental illnesses but we don't talk about that
  
  honestly when i was a kid i always picked male characters (despite being afab) because "the clothes looked better", fast forward a couple of years, i transitioned to male and i realised i used video games as my main escape from worsening gender dysphoria
  
  also some minor mental illnesses
  I don't like to call it "mental illnesses" because it makes it look like it's a property of the person; however, it is a property of society:
- I often play RPGs as a female character, as a means of stepping outside of myself and actually, you know, role-playing. But I seldom play online games, and do not try to convince anyone that I'm a woman irl.
  Still, it's interesting how people assume that because I've chosen to spend my game time watching a female avatar run about, I must be a woman. I've been in some sticky situations, but none thus far involving anyone claiming to be lesbian.
  
  "If I'm gonna stare at an ass for hours it may as well be a hot one" is a reason I've heard.
  The last descendant seems to be leaning hard on that demographic as well. The outfits are... Basically shovelware mobile game coomer shit.
  
  how sticky are we talking about
  
  Yeah, when I play an RPG and I create a character, I'm creating a whole character, not just a self-insert one. That character has a name, a backstory, a way of thinking, skills, experiences. When that character decides to join the Stormcloacks, it's not because that's what I would do. It's what the character would do.
  Some of those characters are women. Some are nonhuman. It's a character, it's not me.
- There are a few reasons I can think off:
  Trick people;
  Get items;
  ~~egg~~ Experimenting the thought of not being your current gender.
  But just like the anon described, it's one of the first two.
- 🥚