i wanna dig into this bc i think its an interesting exchange. would like to be clear that “u talk like a cis guy” is not why this is creepy and weird. i do not care if i talk like a cis guy. cis guys are cool. “i’m not convinced you’re trans” is the weird part.

does it offend that my identity is vague? does it bother people not having a bullet point list of everything i care and think about? who i am? what i am? what i do? what my life is like?

is anonymity an offense?

i think a lot of people on twitter have managed to figure out contextually that i am a transsexual in real life thats why my all my mutuals who i hang out with in real life are transsexual as well. its like, not like its a SECRET that rodney skinnytuna is a t word. but i think the ephemera of the character makes the character funny. a shapeshifter is more entertaining to me than like, an attractive person who posts fits and says funny things sometimes.

there are so many humans on earth! there are so many humans with twitter accounts. to me its like, people who play WoW and decide to use a human avatar. you have so many options. why be the thing you are in real life? i could be one of the millions of normal humans on twitter, or i could be a cartoon lizard. or i could be a cartoon spider, or i could be a picture of some garbage someone left on the street. i spend all day being a human in real life. why would i clock out of being a human just to pretend to be a human online. maybe this is exposing a distinct lean towards anthropomorphism. maybe people who have Funny Animal Avatar accounts are more like furries than they would think.

but there’s something to be said about your human avatar being something of a cartoon as well. thats why i said “pretending,” because no matter what there’s going to be some level of performance. even if you point a camera at yourself all day while you clean your house, theres still a lens. its still directed. its still a 2d facade of a 3d space. i dont think theres necessary less artistic value than portraying yourself as a human you technically are rather than inanimate. its just never been my path.

im not on here to convince anyone of anything. i dont even care if people think i’m cis. the gender booleans aren’t very important to me. if i cared about people thinking of me inaccurately (or if i even believed in the idea of a “Wrong” interpretation of myself) i would obviously work harder to disambiguate. the trouble, of course, is the pointed finger. it would be a horrible crime if you weren’t REALLY what you (don’t) say you are. the onus is on me, the viewer, to tease apart whether the performance of gender i’m witnessing is immoral. is a Trick. i’ve invoked a cis panic! the scrutiny, the being a detective is the conceit. it does bring me some joy that i can ruffle someones feathers so much in their understanding of the world that they’d feel the need to lash out. the footnote about pronouns made me laugh. forgot what universe i was in for a second.

above all, my role is very simple. im a little joker man. i make my little jokes on the computer, and i write what i know. and what i know is being a big gay faggot. so thats what i do