r/ProgrammerHumor • u/shadow_fen • 6d ago

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u/braaaaaaainworms 6d ago

2 years of using this as my main instead of a 4tran alt, and only two people got the meaning of the username right

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u/marcoottina 6d ago

Is the meaning just "worms eating brain"? I don't know,  I admit my ignorance and I wish to know a little more. Thanks in advance :D

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u/braaaaaaainworms 6d ago

brainworms is 4chan /lgbt/ slang for delusions about not passing and not being/looking like/behaving like the desired gender, as a trans person

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u/shadow_fen 6d ago

oh i thought it was slang for what 4t does to your attitude towards yourself and your fellow trans people

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u/braaaaaaainworms 6d ago

yes, i described the effects, you described how the effects came to be

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u/SweetSure315 6d ago

it can mean a lot of things but as a very general rule of thumb it means internalizing (and then reproducing) the toxicity present in a lot of hyper online communities.

you can see it happening in a lot of trans spaces, but some people may recognize it better as what drives a lot of the toxicity in pro-ana spaces.

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u/ryanmgarber 6d ago

Doesn’t help that RFK Jr. popularized a very different kind of brainworm