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I still remember when it was okay to slag off troons in nerd culture spaces, in fact, it was pretty much the norm until... late 2017 or so? Can anyone explain that?
The only hypothesis I really have is the sudden popularity of Discord/final nail in the coffin for many traditional message boards (including some that would never have considered using a proprietary platform before it) as a result. That said, I don't think I really bumped into any troons until early 2016, and I was using the internet since 2008ish... funny enough, the ROM hacking community in particular seems to have more 'proto-troons' (i.e. 'trooned out before 2016') than literally any other circle on the internet I can think of...
... possibly the sudden surge of interest and media hype around the time the Nintendo Switch came out, which in turn led to normalfags finding Discord, which in turn led to them finding out what ROM hacking, emulation and other such things were, which in turn led them to meet a bunch of these "proto-troons" and then attempt to emulate them?
I know I'd never have found out what anime was or have been extremely ignorant of it if I wasn't into Nintendo, so there's a definite chance this all derives from this... that, and most TRAs that aren't within the inner circle are usually pretty ignorant or uninvolved with any of these interests whatsoever, and are simply 'going with the flow' if that makes sense rather than doing any of their own research.
Young teens thoroughly groomed into confused late-teen degenerates who were forced to disperse onto other platforms typically populated by a more adult audience with higher societal power and a façade of empathy.
Just a theory.
Blaming the Nintendo Switch is certainly a new one.