5mo ago

What's up with the Dragon Rider drama?

I almost hate to ask this since it's come up so much already, but what's with the Dragon Rider drama? Like what's going on

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You should listen to the voice that's telling you not to add more spoons to this already heavily-stirred bowl of shit.
I have no idea what this is about, as "Dragon Rider" could refer to an abundant number of popular fantasy series, so I am curious to see a real answer about it.
I would have to imagine if it is anything like most other "drama" these days, it's entirely meaningless and effectively just translates to a rage bait mine that one could try to exploit for ad revenue or imaginary internet points or something. Something people will completely forget about in a week.
Tbh, at this point, there's no tl;dr that's realistic, and everyone has kinda covered it so well in the past that my best advice is to scroll back through this C/ and find the previous posts. It really has been done to death.
I think I've given my synopsis of it maybe three or four times, and those versions are likely better than what I could come up with again.
- Guess we don't need to hear your opinion on it literally every time it comes up then, huh?
  
  And who the fuck are you, trying to be a dick for no good reason?
  
  southsamurai is barely engaging here, I don't get the saltyness.
  For the record, they were extremely gracious to me during a moment of ignorance. I can't imagine them being hateful about this situation.
We are all witnessing a master class in fucking with the trans community, that’s what’s going on
The short version is the a user, initially “dragon fucker”, who then changed their name to “dragon rider” to make the bit less obvious, was the embodiment of the “Apache attack helicopter gender identity” meme.
The premise of their identity is that they fuck dragons, and their pronouns are “drag”. This is, on its face, hilariously delusional at absolute best and a troll at worst.
My list of issues with drag is long, but some of their greatest hits:
Reporting everyone who didn’t play along with them as transphobic. This caused issues over at Bahaj who, bless their heart, gave drag the benefit of the doubt.
Harassing users in DMs, up to and including pictures of themselves saying “bet you would like some of my girlcock” or something to that affect
Things get a little conspiratorial past this line
I’ve been around Lemmy for a while now, and after seeing drag talk, I am 100% convinced they’re another iteration of an equally terrible user called DroneRights.
It was the same MO, their “gender” was that they were a “drone” in a “hive mind”. Again, patently absurd and should never have been taken seriously, except they would regularly try to get users banned for being “transphobic”.
I think all of this is just a bit to subtract from actual trans issues, which is exactly what it did. It reframed the discussion around gender identity and pronouns on Lemmy to “oh but what about “xenogenders”, and “neo-pronouns”, which is like…. Just the epitome of what the left gets made fun of for at this point.
It all ended with drag getting banned from blahaj for sharing DMs with the admin, though I’m sure it was a straw that broke the camels back kind of situation
I hypothesize we see another, similarly deranged account within a few weeks and the cycle will continue.
- At least the attack helico was an interesting story/thought experiment and not a troll.

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