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Panel 1: Shen is sitting at his screen tablet, holding his tablet pen. He looks at you, smiling, and says “Wanna know one cool thing about being a comic artist?”
Panel 2: Shen is now standing upright, the tablet pen having become giant in his hand. How gestures outwards with his other hand and says “You can draw yourself however you want!”
Panel 3: Shen magically "ting"s his forehead with his tablet pen, changing himself into a Sol Badguy-esque buff dude with a belt and a ponytail. He says “For example, I can draw myself like THIS!”
Panel 4: Shen again magically "ting"s his forehead, changing himself into a girl with a sweatshirt-dress, gym shorts, and choker. He says “OR like THIS!”
Panel 5: Shen winks, does a peace sign, and sticks his tongue out, saying “Bet THIS makes you feel some funny new feelings about me, huh??”
Panel 6: Life now has to hold a raging and frothing-at-the-mouth Shen as he yells “Bet THIS would make it easier to get you to go to my PATREON!!!” and points at you, trying to fight you. Life is saying “Calm down, man!!”
Shen knows his audience.
Or they’re taking their first steps on becoming the f1nn5ter of webcomics. We’ll see how it plays out in a few years.
Oh god
Just to be clear, are folk in general anti-f1nn5ter, as it seems he only transitioned to femme with HRT for the popularity? Or is the consensus that he’s cool? I’ve been out of the YouTube loop for a while
I think that’s transphobic garbage. The only real reasons people take HRT involve them wanting to for themselves. The effects and changes can be very unpleasant if you don’t want them and also don’t go away if you stop taking them.
I will agree that F1nn says a lot of shitty things for attention and views but taking HRT isn’t something one does for attention and views.
Cool. I loved their videos because I loved seeing F1nn genuinely enjoy showing off how great a femme they make, until I got wind of folk thinking F1nn was a poser or other things that absolutely do sound like transphobic arguments.
You right: HRT, especially injections, especially if one has to pay for it, is definitely a personal, life-altering commitment. My dumb ass started buying the “some kids are doing it because its cool” claims.
Thinking that someone would transition while living in the UK for “popularity” is kinda an unhinged take, she transitioned for similar reasons as other transfemmes.
The only real reason to dogpile on her is that now she has some very fucked takes about femboys.
What are her takes on femboys?
she’s said they don’t exist at all, at one point, her take basically being “every femboy is an egg waiting to hatch” or we’re trans in denial. Which like, I can get how she could come to that conclusion, but I also feel like she should appreciate that her experience doesn’t match everyones.
She’s also said stuff like “you aren’t really a femboy if you don’t shave your legs,” which I recognize is a shitty take even if I also share it.
I would say that it’s insanely hypocritical for someone in F1nn5ter’s position to embrace egg culture with open arms because they’ve almost certainly experienced the uglier aspects of persistent misgendering and harassment from egg culture.
So I don’t think them being ignorant is a good excuse for this because they’ve definitely experienced it, and likely continue to experience it. Since Egg culture is binary targeted it also negatively effects NonBinary people as well. The idea that egg culture and associated misgendering and attacks are perpetrated by ignorant and well meaning people who have just come out only works if you haven’t experienced how bad it is for yourself.
I think it’s likely that they say things like this for the purpose of being hurtful for attention. F1nn knows that people have negative feelings towards the “haha egg” rhetoric and probably knows a good part of why as well. They also know that if they go live while doing makeup to talk about why being a GNC boy is impossible because “wearing a skirt and makeup makes you a girl” will get then lots of attention.
I personally got the feeling that they invalidated femboys because that’s what she genuinely believed, which made it more sad than anything. I still don’t know of anybody with a more documented story, as most eggs didn’t center their eggdom in their content in quite the same way. Most trans creators had more private journeys, expressing more fem over time, but not focusing on their self exploration. Most cis femboy creators don’t set donation goals to lock their boy clothes in a box; it’s about fun expression more than reshaping their entire lives. F1NN5TER just couldn’t understand/accept that she was an outlier amongst both internet femboys and trans people who cracked while public figures.
They were kinda naive about how other people viewed gender in general, thinking that gender expression and transition would become common and accepted within the next ten years. I guess you have to be that dense to be the sort of egg that she was. They probably underestimated just how much hate awaited her after coming out, and that’s probably why they handled things so badly back then.
However, the more recent race-baiting and ragebaiting transphobes? Definitely calculated moves to get donations on her OnlyFans. This is a person who sold micro transactions to kids on affiliated Minecraft servers; morally questionable business strategies are nothing new.
Yeah the only content creator I can think of that came close is contrapoints. And that feels different, it was a much more traditional “haha see how transgressive I am for regularly crossdressing in videos”. And it was right around the mainstreaming of trans people.
You can compare her to say PhilosophyTube who did what’s much more common, of starting transitioning off camera, not really showing anything of it except making a point to be a good ally in the early questioning stage, then coming out when she was ready.
Idk, while I obviously try to appreciate everyone’s experiences and don’t like making broad statements, it can be hard to not feel that way when literally every femboy I’ve met eventually transitioned, myself included…
That’s not to say it’s a great take, but it’s definitely understandable why people would feel that way. Especially since for me personally, it was very much a coping mechanism for being trans.
Again not trying to invalidate anyone’s experiences, just kinda venting my own personal thoughts/feelings on the matter.
This might be the consensus on certain corners of the internet, but it’s absolute transphobic bullshit. He got so much less hate before she transitioned, as being “just a cishet femboy” was far less controversial than the truth. The real problem with F1NN5TER is all the ragebaiting on Twitter to promote their OnlyFans. She relies too much on bigots who secretly simp to ever back away from the toxicity that’s the real source of these bigoted theories.
Oh damn, from that perspective it sounds like F1NN5TER might self-hate :/ I get transfolk joking to reduce their pain for a bit but I wish they had an alternative to being cruel to themself.