wondermaid asked: i don't think it was about aaron being a man, i think it was that tyler had been betrayed. like that would be an instant dealbreaker for many people, regardless of who the person was. tyler especially seemed like someone who really values truth and trust and etc. and there is the fact that gender/gender expression is part of what attracts us to people, which is probably another part of why people in the show tend to lose their feelings for that person after they find out the truth yo
Hm hm hm hmm. Thanks for putting it that way. That was so entirely confusing for me because all of the other ones felt like a genuine douchebag, ‘you’re just a crazy stupid prick’ type betrayals. Obviously Tyler is going to feel everything 1000x more than the viewer, but this felt like such an honest to god genuine mistake, and it’s amazing how he actually broke away from that whole life after. It’s sad to me that they couldn’t have stayed friends or w/e despite the atrocious start since they obviously did on some level connect hgfgfhhgfggf
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wondermaid asked: haha no it's okay to disagree. i totally get what you're saying but like, i'm gonna be super cheesy right now and argue that you can develop real feelings and even fall in love with somebody through just text and phone calls, and it makes you afraid to discover the truth and willing to believe the lies. of course it's super risky to trust anyone on the internet without sufficient proof but like, i wouldn't put the victim at fault here, they didn't necessarily do anything wrong, just naive.
Whoa mah brotha. I’m definitely not putting them at fault or saying that they did anything wrong here, I’m just stating that in general this is not the way everybody rolls. People can choose not to live an internet life where the person they’re interacting with could pop out and be a forty year old man at any minute. Some people obviously still use the internet this ~naive~ way, but it doesn’t HAVE to be an unsafe, unsure, super weird strange thing. &It sucks for the homies who choose to not only start off, but continue online communications in that mysterious, not so complete kind of way.
Also you’re right about the feelings being real and this is what had me thinking about Tyler, he DID technically fall in love with Aaron. Was that shattered entirely when he found out he was a man, and all negated, or could it have turned into something real and gay…? ~Sexuality~
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There is always that stage before I meet someone, or something happens that makes them real, where I completely forget that people I’m talking to online are real.
Like everything that happens with certain people before I actually meet them ceases to exist and did not happen after I finally do.
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There are a handful of people who live around me that I became really good friends with online before I finally met in person, then after a couple get togethers been like “Oh sweet jesus, back up the train” because they’re not who I expected. I’m always wondering if I’m that person to someone else now xD Bet it sucks to be that person.
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