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Sure, watching it doesn't mean you're gay, but it definitely makes it more likely that you are, or at a minimum that you support gay rights. What percentage of

Sure, watching it doesn't mean you're gay, but it definitely makes it more likely that you are, or at a minimum that you support gay rights. What percentage of people who watch such content don't support gay rights, do you think?

iinnPP 3y ago
Probably a very very small sum if not zero. I can also think of far superior methods of obtaining a list of gay or gay supporting people. Like any number of data breaches would provide access to. Hell, I can uncover that data on 90% of Canada using exclusively my own disclosures from the last ten years.
TechBro8615 3y ago
Based on the red team rage posting about this stuff, I think you'd be surprised... certainly the only time I see TikTok videos by transgender people is when some republican grifter links to one on Twitter.
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NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
I watched every single episode of Bewitched when I was a child. I watched and enjoyed The Wizard of Oz. I definitely enjoyed Bram Stoker's Dracula in my goth youth. Only a few years ago, I purchased a ticket to see one of my favorite actresses in The Importance of Being Earnest; while I only knew a little bit about Oscar Wilde's background, the production crew appeared for Q&A afterwards and explained every single detail of the play to demonstrate just how ga y it all really is, without explicitly portraying a single LGBT character or relationship.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  On Wilde, there’s a very good reason that it doesn’t explicitly portray a single LGBT character or relationship; it was illegal to do so. All was subtext back then.
skissane 3y ago
> What percentage of people who watch such content don't support gay rights, do you think? I don’t know what percentage, but likely more than you think. Look at someone like Chaya Raichik (creator of Libs of TikTok) - she’s not exactly supportive of LGBT rights, but she obviously spends a lot of time watching pro-LGBT content to try to find stuff to criticise about it. The same is true of many of her supporters who send her tips. And there are other conservatives who obviously do the same thing, e.g. Christopher Rufo or Rod Dreher
- rsynnott 3y ago
  That’s _probably_ a niche activity, though; a few mentally disturbed people with twitter accounts aren’t going to swing the stats too much.
  - anonymouskimmer 3y ago
    Like statistics about Qanon (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/16/5-facts-about-the-qanon-conspiracy-theories/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/16/5-facts-a... ) I would guess viewership is more bipolar.
- rwalle 3y ago
  Argument for the sake of argument. Please no.

iinnPP 3y ago

Probably a very very small sum if not zero. I can also think of far superior methods of obtaining a list of gay or gay supporting people. Like any number of data breaches would provide access to. Hell, I can uncover that data on 90% of Canada using exclusively my own disclosures from the last ten years.

TechBro8615 3y ago

Based on the red team rage posting about this stuff, I think you'd be surprised... certainly the only time I see TikTok videos by transgender people is when some republican grifter links to one on Twitter.

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NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

I watched every single episode of Bewitched when I was a child. I watched and enjoyed The Wizard of Oz. I definitely enjoyed Bram Stoker's Dracula in my goth youth. Only a few years ago, I purchased a ticket to see one of my favorite actresses in The Importance of Being Earnest; while I only knew a little bit about Oscar Wilde's background, the production crew appeared for Q&A afterwards and explained every single detail of the play to demonstrate just how ga y it all really is, without explicitly portraying a single LGBT character or relationship.

rsynnott 3y ago
On Wilde, there’s a very good reason that it doesn’t explicitly portray a single LGBT character or relationship; it was illegal to do so. All was subtext back then.

skissane 3y ago

> What percentage of people who watch such content don't support gay rights, do you think? I don’t know what percentage, but likely more than you think. Look at someone like Chaya Raichik (creator of Libs of TikTok) - she’s not exactly supportive of LGBT rights, but she obviously spends a lot of time watching pro-LGBT content to try to find stuff to criticise about it. The same is true of many of her supporters who send her tips. And there are other conservatives who obviously do the same thing, e.g. Christopher Rufo or Rod Dreher

rsynnott 3y ago
That’s _probably_ a niche activity, though; a few mentally disturbed people with twitter accounts aren’t going to swing the stats too much.
- anonymouskimmer 3y ago
  Like statistics about Qanon (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/16/5-facts-about-the-qanon-conspiracy-theories/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/16/5-facts-a... ) I would guess viewership is more bipolar.
rwalle 3y ago
Argument for the sake of argument. Please no.