Do you remember how YouTube atheism ended? There wasn't a big pang. It just slowly.... faded.... away. Are there still some atheist YouTubers? Sure, but you really have to look for them. After all YouTube communities are almost completely online. Where does BreadTube exist outside the online world? In which real places do people proclaim their pronouns, on the construction site? Hell, I've just written a dissertation paper at my university (and like every university, there is wokeness) and we only had TWO options for gender: male and female. And we even used the word sex, not gender. Why? Because listing 200 gender identities is just too tiresome. Humans are practical creatures, they want simplicity. This is the reason that languages with complex grammar tend to become easier, not more difficult. The reason why languages have become simpler in the last 5'000 years is that we've stopped living in small tribes and started to live in large-scale societies. In small tribes you can allow for a complex language, because it is only shared by a small community. When your community grows, language will sooner or later become simpler, especially in multi-ethnic/multi-cultural societies, in which people have to adopt a new language (for example the Germanic tribes in Northen France who had to learn Latin and botched it or the indigenous Iberians who spoke Celtic languages or actual indigenous Euroepan languages. like Aquitanian That's how the French and Spanish/Portuguese language emerged). The same goes for gender roles. Whereas a tribe might have many different ritualized gender roles, they aren't viable anymore in a larger society. It's easy for a small tribe to learn 10 different gender roles and be conditioned in them, but in a society with millions of people? Rather unlikely. Hence it's easy to proclaim your gender identity in a small Tumblr community. But in the real word... forget it.
So what is my point here? BreadTube, like any online social movement, will begin quite energetic and show a healthy growth. But after a time the parasocial relationships will become weaker with the growing community and the illusion of community will be lost. Hence why BreadTube began with "authentic" YouTubers like Shaun and Jen, Hbomberguy and even Peter Coffin, but with the growing attention many grifters like Xanderhal and Vaush appeared and fucked the whole community up. This is the same in a tribe: Almost nobody steals from somebody in a small tribe. But what in a population of 200'000 people? Stealing from a person you don't have any emotional connection is easier than from a person of the same tribe you grow up with. In order to defend against such a development you have to create actual communities in real life, build institutions, establish rules and you HAVE to gate keep. As not everyone can become a Jew or a Druze, you have also to gate keep in a non-religious institution to keep the community together. This is the reason why what we call transgenderism was able to survive and even integrate in some societies, but not in the West. The Hijra in South Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)#Language and the Galli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galli in Rome are/were something we might call transgender today. But how did they differ? 1) They had religious elements, 2) they had institutions, 3) they sometimes even had an own language for their community 4) They had firm rituals 5) Not everyone can just join because of fun (no self-identification). These are all things that BreadTube and the troonerism movement don't have and to be honest almost all modern movements lack. The internet (and modernity itself) made community-bulding just much more difficult, no matter if you're leftwing, rightwing, a minority or the majority. I predict rather large-scale sucidies in the future due to loneliness and alienation than communist, fascist, troonist or any other movement actually changing society.
