remembering that time i got transphobic harassment and i had to poke my friend who from-a-distance watches the internet right-wing out of morbid curiosity to translate what the fuck the slurs mean because not even i'm so incredibly online as to immediately know "snouted elf"
the thing about weird transphobic shitheads on the modern internet is they've broken their brain with it and are so insular that not even their victims understand their taunts and slurs half the time
tbh that gives me hope. the crucibles of hate lose themselves in their own insanity, and they don't have the broad appeal it sometimes seems they do...
i am mildly morbidly curious what zhe heck 'snouted elf' is supposed to mean. if youd like to share that is.
oh yeah it's just the most roundabout way of calling someone a "furf*g" ever they've been in the hatred zone so long and hard they've literally undergone linguistic drift processes
Of course I did easily understand the accompanying gif of a trans caricature hanging themself
no genuinely, tracking how processes of euphemization and pejorativization are accelerated in modern internet hate groups would absolutely be worth a sociolinguistics thesis or summat