It finally happened. Someone close to me trooned out and it made me so fucking mad that I created an account to rage about it on the Farms.
Apologies for the PL to explain why I'm so goddamn disappointed.
In a past life, I was in academia, getting a post grad degree. While I was there, I got to know this South Korean undergrad, let's call him John. John is (or rather was) an absolute wunderkind at my field of study. While in his third year of undergrad, this motherfucker managed to get a paper accepted at the most prestigious venue for my field. For context, a paper at this venue basically constitutes a full Master's thesis. John could have graduated with a undergrad degree and a Master's with a bit of finagling for the required course work. AFAIK, John chose not to do this, but instead got a full ride to Princeton for a PhD with a leading scholar in the field. That's also a hell of an accomplishment in and of itself.
Lo and behold, one of my extremely pozzed ex-labmates has giddily informed me that John has been trooning out for several months, but wanted to be his """true self""" before he started at Princeton this September.
I should have seen the warning signs when he took multiple "breaks" from his undergrad to basically fart around for a semester. I thought it was just because he was burnt out from internships/academia, but now I know he's a troon, I'm sure he was spending those breaks gooning out on Hentai or sissy porn until he """discovered himself""".
I'm so fucking disappointed in John. I was rooting for this guy to succeed in this field - he had the drive and imagination to do really good work and make an impact. I thought it was incredible that he could a Master's student's work done while in undergrad. Hell, I helped give the guy career advice when he was questioning which internships to do to advance his academic career. And now I'm sure his PhD will go to shit because he's trooned out, as trooning is surely the #1 focus in his life, not his skills at research. 2:1 odds he becomes the nightmare student for his unsuspecting new supervisor at Princeton too.
Of course, the other thing that sucks ass is that all my old academia friends are pozzed handmaidens who are so fucking excited that John has "found his true self". I feel like shit that this guy I admired is pretty much dead, and a troon has risen in his place, but they expect me to be delighted about this turn of events.
Fuck this. I need to stop associating with these pozzed academics.