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[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 16 insightful - 5 fun16 insightful - 4 fun17 insightful - 5 fun -  (8 children)

Seriously, what is it with trans people and anime? If you go into a mainstream trans space almost all of them have an anime pfp.

It's all quite suspicious. Hentai is full of things like traps and femboys.

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    [–]Dzonatan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

    No...

    There was no autist to tranny pipeline pre-2010s and Anime was present in western consumption since the 90s.

    [–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    But, having said that, the "trap"/"femboy" archetype didn't become particularly widespread in anime until the 2010s [even if Sailor Moon was one of the early huge anime series, they specifically kept the series with the Sailor Star Lights in Japan so that series didn't introduce the archetype to the US.]...so "the rise of traps/femboys" pretty much coincides with the rise of the autist to trans pipeline.

    [–]Dzonatan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Still no.

    The term "trap" was considered a joke, therefore the question: "Are traps gay" amongst A&M circles. The turning point may have been Coxcon 2018 where the question was dropped via Q&A. The audiance was laughing its ass off while TB acted like a total melt on twitter and that's when trans bullshit was being injected into the whole trap joke.

    Femboys though? Eh... you may have me here. I personally haven't see that term being deployed in full force until around 2020 where I saw tiktok videos of dudes performing the 2 Phut Hon Zero Two dance.

    [–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Whether or not the term was a joke, the point stands. While anime had been big since the 1990s in the US, it would not be until 2006 with the series "Happiness" for an anime character like that to get popular with US fans [indeed, Jun and Bridget were the reason the trap joke was coined]- and it wouldn't be until the 2010s when that character archetype became commonplace enough you could expect at least one or two traps to be running around a seasonal anime, which as we established coincides with when the autist to trans pipeline started.

    [–]Dzonatan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Bridget debut in Guilty Gear X2 in 2002. Haku (Naruto character) debut was in Naruto CH15 in 2000. You did not hear about trannies in early 2000s.

    Once again: There was no autist to tranny pipeline pre-2010s

    [–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Haku was a very short-term character in Naruto, nowhere near popular enough to start a trend. Bridget was popular, but again, not even close to when the trickle became a deluge.

    Once again: the character archetype of the trap became big in the 2010s, coinciding with the pipeline even you admit.

    [–]Dzonatan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    My original point of anime traps being older than trans pipeline was in reference to this quote:

    You're actually right. Most trans always have anime girl on their pfp. Maybe it wasn't Jew conspiracy after all, but it was Japanese anime causing men becoming trans

    So I still stand by what I say. Anime didn't create trannies. No more than it did pre-2010.