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EternalNicodemus @lemmy.world

1y ago

Hey, I am not trans, just wanna know why the community name is so long lol

Hey, I am Niko

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I think it’s a reference to r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu a very old, established subreddit for rage comics memes. Then when the trans meme subreddit became a thing, they copied the style of the name. Then they brought the same name over to Lemmy.
There are other subreddits with the same style name, like r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt for IT related memes.
I could be wrong, I wasn’t there for the formation of the /r/traa subreddit, but that’s my speculation.
- Oh, that is a silly origin, thank you! :D
  
  Thank you, Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiko!
- As a (former) old reddit user that had been around since the beginning, you're 100% correct.
- F7u13 !
  
  F7u12.
- Today, on the history of memes...
- thats so funny i had no idea

Because there's a shit ton of them yo
- Yo

Hi Niko
- Hi Coco hru?

hi Niko!
just a warning, I also "was cis tho" when i started on this sub on reddit way back.
turns out i was wrong .lt;
- oh no
  
  hehe lt;3 there are worse things
- Could be a very deferent version of the German-language learning video series "Nico's Weg"

I'm pretty sure it's to prevent bigots from randomly stumbling on it by typing in r/trans and posting hate stuff (this name was inherited from reddit)
- The trans community is kinda really nice, in other parts of Lemmy and Reddit usually when you are wrong about something even in a non-malicious way (say this first-handed lol), you get downvoted to the abyss, it's refreshing to see such a peaceful community, btw, some user below commented that it's a reference to the r/fffffuuuuuuuuuu subreddit, pretty cool!

The worst is when you find the stuff here and egg_irl "funny and relatable"
- Nah the worst is when you don't find it relatable or even understand any of it and people insist you do and poke fun at you (egging) sometimes going a bit too far, that happened to me. Wasn't fun, but I did eventually figure out about being Agender (and Isogender) which really cleared up the mystery of why I don't understand gender. Just kinda wish people didn't try pushing the stereotypes so hard on me, was real frustrating and uncomfortable ya know.
  Btw I know I'm replying to old comments, been gone for a while and trying to catch back up.
  
  You're absolutely right and this is where it goes wrong. Is there a better way to accept people that are gender expansive devoid of "egging"?
- Uhm... Why do you say that?
  
  Don't worry about it too much, just egg_irl/traa humor, lots of them like to poke fun at the idea of turning people trans but it's a joke (it's meant to be a joke, though sometimes people violate the prime directive and it becomes not funny anymore).

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