Only 8 months? Elaborate munchie internet hoaxes have gone on for years before, even with no commercial gain. And appearing out of nowhere at 18? An 18 year old who is into this very, very specific and identifiably extreme shit and "came out as agender" at 13, but who doesn't have a long obvious internet history (and a thread here tbh lol) after 5 years of being gender and body obsessed? Someone who was good at keeping anonymous and not attention whoring that whole entire time (at least to the extent that nobody has connected her reddit to any other internet personality), and yet now suddenly feels the need to post to reddit daily? Reddit, the text-heavy platform where anonymity is encouraged, unlike Tumblr or places where a lack of selfies would stand out more when talking about gender and body mod stuff? Yeah this all just makes it sound even faker.
I'll stop sperging on this bc I don't think I'm going to change anyone's mind, but nothing about it sounds like the way people share their actual weird personal stuff online. It totally has the tone and timing of someone spinning an invented cancer/anorexia/ongoing drama saga they made up one night, which ended up garnering them more attention than they expected, so now they made a little hobby out of it.