I have lost a couple of dear friends to the Transdemic. This one hits the hardest.
One I grew up with throughout my teenage years. We were inseparable. We had a bond over music that kept us together through schooling and classes and a really unique synergy. Early on, I revealed that I was a fan of anime and thanks to my technical know-how was able to torrent anything and everything and passed it on. Easily my biggest regret, and mistake I ever made in hindsight, it was like giving the first hit of crack.
His siblings were always weird, and they came from a very privileged fundie background, something that I could tell always put strain on the children. But they were nice, and provided everything to them, and occasionally me as well, as my family was in shambles and I was having terrible hardships. His oldest sibling was the first to troon out, and basically demolished the career opportunity of a lifetime in favor of the "cause". Their lifestyle was trash and is could be defined as self-loathing that we've seen on the site time and time again. He of course thought it was cool rebellious behavior.
When we went our separate ways, with him going to an ivy-league and me going to a meager uni, we would always reconvene during the summers. It was then I noticed so much had changed with him. He became the type to correct speech, become a SJW in the classic sense when before we would always laugh at racist jokes and such because it was something so far removed from us that neither of us saw it as harm. It didn't help that during Uni he would tell me that his social life was non-existent, staying in with similar troon adjacent-ilk, where I was flourishing in the social world for the first time. Around this time is when he got into the whole ACAB, Karl Marx commie larp. I don't understand how these types often come from silver spoon backgrounds and can't "see" the irony of it. In the years prior I was a very "workers of the world, unite" kinda person with communist sympathies, but after successfully hanging out with business class types in uni with the combination with taking economics classes basically made me realize how much of communism as an ideology in the western modern world was absolute clownery and a losers ideology.
Then came the "i'm gay", which was fine. Soon after came the collection of shoujo-based figures and consumption of Loli-adjacent material, followed by him exclaiming "isn't she so cute! uwu" like a bronie from 2012. Then, after Uni, the final statement was made to be referred to with She/Her pronouns. My friends acquiesced to the demands, to my shock. I couldn't believe it. Then came the weird as fuck twitter troon friends and "I'm a girl" statements which began to push away existing friends and made girlfriends uncomfortable. And finally the whole transformation part, fuck does it look bad. No fashion sense, has a nose like the breast feeding troon currently making the rounds (not as big, but clearly geometrically defined and challenged), and has far more wrinkles than me or my peers. He doesn't take care of his skin or health so he looks fucking older and older, especially with the taking of HRT. Even I would pass better if I got up in drag in comparison to his current getup.
I miss my friend, and I fear for when I move on from this place that he will die a slow and lonely death.
Also,
@Tony Vivaldi could you be any more of a Fag? You've taken up so much front space on this thread without contributing anything but twitter-level comebacks. No wonder people hate newcomers on the farms. Your pfp is wasted on you.
