Beast's Lair History

[Escavalien]

I don't know, in the context of what he's saying he could've just as easily said "catfish" and nobody would've batted an eye, plus "trap" still gets utilized quite a lot in the weeb districts of culture because of characters like Astolfo. It honestly doesn't feel like he was being transphobic based on what he was saying. But you do you.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Yeah, "trap" being used in weeb culture doesn't exactly pardon it from being transphobic, and considering how reactionary weeb culture has remained, it might actually reinforce the transphobic nature of that term.

Also, Astolfo is a femboy, and femboys and trans people all deserve absolute respect.

[I3uster]

theres more than enough people that think femboy is a slur too i think the only one thats fine to use is crossdresser

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Maybe, but it's not like you have people who call themselves traps and live a trap lifestyle like how people identify as femboys.

[Bloble]

It is probably for the better since it eventually created a sort of weird 7th-only subculture where people who had no interest in BL or TM itself would gather and draw people there, instead of assimilating into the forum proper. Someone who would have normally been a good GD poster would just disappear into the 7th and that would be that.

haha yeah its not like a whole chunk of forumgoers would just sequester themselves in their own little corner of the forum and post among themselves even though it has little to nothing to do with TM and spend years there forming a subculture or anything haha

Maybe, but it's not like you have people who call themselves traps and live a trap lifestyle like how people identify as femboys.

Except for the part where you totally do and tons of people identify as traps.

[I3uster]

If you wish to discuss words and their evolution from old internet culture to current day I'd recommend making one as this is tangentially related at best.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Fair. Didn't really want to keep this going anyhow.

[Rafflesiac]

theres more than enough people that think femboy is a slur too i think the only one thats fine to use is crossdresser

best girl is also accepted terminology

[Leftovers]

The Seventh was a fun place for the brief period between the twilight of the Elders and the second thirst epidemic, when it wasn't a cesspit of dudes trying to finesse internet dating simulators with elaborate meme-based mating rituals. Admittedly random ecks dee conversations are only ever really fun for the conversation-dominating people who are already familiar with one another, and the whole premise of a closed circle of butt-buddies got massively enabled by Discord anyway. I think incidental coexistence in a public space about a thing you won't be interested in forever has a bittersweet appeal, but if your love of TM fades away you might as well rebuild around the social circle you've created.

[I3uster]

controversial opinion: high thirst environments can be quite fun as long as drama doesnt get too shitty

its like a class trip back in highschool except everyone is a neckbeard

[You]

Bittersweet appeal

[LJ3]

lol

also that is flirting with danger I3uster

[I3uster]

idk what ur talking about i have never seen anything bad happen

[Rafflesiac]

The Great Leg Pics Rush

[Leftovers]

Bittersweet appeal

[Five_X]

tbh I do like a good offtopic forum in a forum, they usually make up a big part of forum culture. But it has to be active members chilling out. In all the late stage incarnations of the 7th be it BL1 or 2 it eventually just became the old folks home.

Then again that dynamic can be seen in most forums. Wonder if there are papers about these recurring social dynamics before everyone quit using forums

The ideal forum user life cycle in the golden age of forums tended, I think, to be:

1. User A joins forum to discuss fandom/cars/etc.
2. User A makes friends with some people on the forum
3. User A starts exploring off-topic areas of the forum
4. Friend circles form that cross on/off-topic boundaries
5. User A settles into a sense of community, on/off-topic forum boundaries dissolve
6. User A's interest in on-topic declines relative to investment in friends.

Alternatively:

1. User A joins forum to discuss fandom/cars/etc.
2. User A discovers the RP section
3. They are never heard from outside RP again.

In the age of Discord, step 4 onward transforms into a Discord server invite and while forum on-topic discussion remains healthy, off-topic ossifies as the community experience is transplanted to Discord. I think your other point is very spot-on though, and in BL2's case specifically it never helped that we were part of a larger circle of forums that trickled down directly from SomethingAwful and by default had a very dudes-dominated culture.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

I'd say for some users, interest in the forum topic goes back and forth based on forum interactions. At least, that's how it's been fore over the past 3.5 years.

[SeiKeo]

controversial opinion: high thirst environments can be quite fun as long as drama doesnt get too shitty

its like a class trip back in highschool except everyone is a neckbeard

In order to improve the quality of discussion on the forum, each mod should be required to maintain a female sockpuppet with 5 posts/day minimum. I think this would be a unique feature for our forum.

[Leftovers]

controversial opinion: high thirst environments can be quite fun as long as drama doesnt get too shitty

its like a class trip back in highschool except everyone is a neckbeard

In order to improve the quality of discussion on the forum, each mod should be required to maintain a female sockpuppet with 5 posts/day minimum. I think this would be a unique feature for our forum.

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[Escavalien]

I might've not been around for long but I can already tell SeiKeo only speaks in pure gold.