"Egg" and "poor innocent gnc cis man being attacked by the evil trans women" aren't the only options btw. Sometimes people just, get this, choose to have their enormous online presence remain closeted.
It's actually really weird how easily online queer spaces seem to forget that the closet is a thing.
This might come as a surprise for those who use the internet as their primary outlet for queerness but some people are online to do their jobs and don't want to be out at work.
The more of an audience someone has, the more understandable it gets if they share absolutely nothing about their personal life, queer identity included. "You should experiment with new pronouns and see how you like it" is a sensible suggestion to make in a situation where you're surrounded by people who either don't care or can be trusted to be supportive, but if you've got a six-digit number of capricious strangers screenshotting everything you say in public, you quickly learn that vulnerability and openness has a cost to it.
