I've decided to write about basically everything I could think of that's relevant here, so please bear with me. You can call it a rant, but there's a narrative here.
To start off, Andy is honestly one of the best examples I could hope for in terms of, let's say, namedfags, in a stereotypical way. He was extremely notorious back on 4/qa/, extremely notorious on Kissu before leaving, and extremely notorious once more after returning a month ago. Here's one of the pics that were made about him back then. I'm not gonna describe his behavior in detail, I'm just going to say he's the particular kind of person that doesn't do it for attention, it's just the way he is. For me, at some point the familiarity bias kicked in, it became more endearing than upsetting. He doesn't give a fuck and I deeply respect that, not in spite of that he can be quite a piece of work.
However, (and this is what sets it apart from a clique) you can criticize him all you want, he's still a fucking faggot, and nobody's going to hound you if you do so. He doesn't have immunity, if anything it's the opposite. You don't
need to know who he is, either. He's kind of a walking meme, and I like to interact with him as such every so often. Sometimes it's better to reply "shut up, andy" than to actually engage him. But, I'm not going to proactively namedrop him up out of nowhere, that I do disagree with.
As for myself, in the last few months I've been referred to by four different names, all of which were accurate, not boogeymen in any way, and *predominantly* used in a positive way. I got them not by avatarfagging but by posting things I like. One of them I received over the course of a single thread (with divisive feedback), where someone made a funny edit about our exchanges, another person said he was inspired by my autism, and later on a third guy made a youtube video that was a parody mocking my posts. Shit was hilarious, frankly, I enjoyed it a lot. But I'm never gonna go and parade myself as that one anon from that one time as if that made me a superior poster, that's not the point. I'll just treasure the memory. The point is that I was given names, singled out, and had fun with it, it was by no means a bad thing. It wasn't just me either, others were having fun too.
I've never tripped myself and I don't plan to, never used the name field seriously at all, but it's also worth mentioning people like Catface and jevin which were really just excellent and I
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