Who are the transgender-identified "colonizers" of LGB subreddits? - A breakdown by subreddit overlap

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[–]blahblahgcer 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's interesting that you bring up tulpas. My friend group was very into tulpas for about a year (including an incident where an adult was preying on a minor using tulpas, claiming that it was okay because their tulpas were the same age). Nowadays, everybody who was into tulpas is trans. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be going away as quickly as the tulpa phase.

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(including an incident where an adult was preying on a minor using tulpas, claiming that it was okay because their tulpas were the same age

I'm interested in what facilitated this. Was it through an online community? Were they groomed?

(I'm interested because I've had some experience working with child sex abuse victims, and I think that tumblr, and LGBT online forums are ripe for adults to groom teenagers as they are places where it is possible to adults to talk to kids about sex and gender).

[–]blahblahgcer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it was an online community (I wasn't involved in it, but it spilled over). A 25ish year old teacher had a tulpa who was 16ish and a 12 year old had a tulpa who was 17ish or something like that. They would role play really graphic sex stuff in private chat rooms and nobody else aware commented on it because they were all into the tulpa stuff.

Eventually I caught on and reported it because the teacher commented how they had a crush on the 12 year old's tulpa or something like that (I think the wording was "I thought I was gay until I met them"). The kid really fought us super hard on it for a while but eventually cut them off.