I didn't read the last two pages of fags shitting up the thread with debates on elven lore but I'll talk about the tranny thing a bit because this just set off a sort of lightbulb in my head.
First it's really, really telling that all the tranny social ladder climbers joined after this got popular, not before.
Second, reading those chatlogs makes it so obvious (moreso than it was to me already) that all of the tranny shit is just a fetish. Blatantly, undeniably so. I bet most of the trannies started as porn addicts and had to keep escalating until the deviant behavior amounted to self-mutilation and a form of social exhibitionism. it's the same as furries, they get off on shoving it in people's faces and they cannot help but inject it into every single dumbass thing they ever do, to the absolute detriment of every aspect of their lives.
And nobody can say anything about it. We have to pretend it's not only normal, but heroic. They know that we know that it's not normal, and they get off on making us walk on eggshells. It's about power. On some level these people know exactly what they are doing and they enjoy using it as a cudgel to shame people into enabling their fetish.
And it happens to every single community they enter, without fail. These people have the shit midas touch. Their ideology spreads slowly, but it always ruins everything eventually. I've watched this same scenario play out the exact same way through so many subcultures. Space Station 13 had the exact same thing happen a while ago with the server that basically started the whole thing (Goonstation) and all of the talented people inevitably end up leaving or being exiled, usually never to return. This is a widespread, recurring problem with a very identifiable pattern: genuinely talented people are split apart by the narcissistic, masturbatory fantasy life these trannies are obsessively compelled to engage in.
It's not just on the Internet either - this exact process happened to Occupy Wall Street and that was a lot of people's first exposure to tranny shit. On that topic, it sure is a weird coincidence that this demonstrably destructive social pathogen is immediately popularized right when the financial elite feel threatened, in the exact subculture it would have needed to become popular to render said threat laughable.
Once you allow even a modicum of the tranny cancer in any setting, the death of the host subculture is inevitable. Amputate before it's too late.