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I hate queerplatonic. It was used by adult creeps as a way to prey on teenagers when I was underage. It was defined to me as a relationship between two "queer" people that was either between or beyond friendship and romance. It was not rare to see a queerplatonic relationship where one person was 14-15 and the other was in their early 20s in the early-mid 2010s.

They could get away with it because it wasn't inherently romantic. I found myself in that situation, it was with the nonbinary identified woman who taught me about queer theory in the first place. She was later outed as a hebephile, made sense in retrospect as she was very inappropriate with me at times. Talked to some other people who had similar experiences and now I see someone listing a "queerplatonic partner" on their profile as a red flag.