It is true that there are instances of 4chan trolling via kin and making up genders but reading this thread I'm sort of scratching my head because kinning existed long before then and it feels a bit disingenuous to treat it as such. Like, from what I vaguely remember kinning has it's roots in people identifying as elves and then otherkin was coined to refer to non-elfkin. Kinning in reference to fictional characters is relatively new. I remember when the wider otherkin community considered it a bastardization of the culture (and maybe they still do but I wouldn't know, I dont go there anymore). IDK what the catkin thread is about but dear god people have seriously been thinking of themselves as kitty cats with 100% sincerity for decades now.
Same. Honestly, I think 4chan and KF bastardized an odd form of expression used by people online because they realized that they could hurt multiple groups by doing it for laughs, and it lingers. Now, anyone that did it innocently is tied to 4chan and transphobia.
I mean, are they though? I get how some people might have their perspective of kinning soured by those malicious instances but it's a bit of a stretch to say they're now tied to 4chan and transphobia.
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Re: Unpopular Opinion...
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(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 01:30 am (UTC)(link)I mean, are they though? I get how some people might have their perspective of kinning soured by those malicious instances but it's a bit of a stretch to say they're now tied to 4chan and transphobia.
Re: Unpopular Opinion...
(Anonymous) 2023-08-20 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)Humans are always gonna be That Way about animals, and honestly, I love it.