One of the virtues of forum culture is that the extreme longevity of some forums allows types of drama to develop that simply wouldn't be possible otherwise. I once saw a man in his thirties get banned from a forum because he mentioned an upcoming birthday, and one of the mods did the math and realised that he'd lied about being over thirteen when he initially registered in 2003.

So apparently Emily Gwen didn’t even create the lesbian flag, has made nearly 100k in donations in a single year, and might actually have never been homeless at all