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Ew.
Glad these are universally fake and gay or this would be a bummer.
I think everyone who has ever played online games knows that phenomenon. I played a whole lot of Team Fortress 2 back in the days. It was pretty chill most of the time, and it's one of those games where i used my mic quite a bit, and so did other people. I met a guy playing tf2 15 years ago and we still talk like 5 times a week and play video games together.
Anyway, whenever there were maybe 2 guys in voice chat for hours, when a woman joined, suddenly everyone had a microphone. And all of the sudden, everyone felt the urge to play support to follow her around. Everyone suddenly became a my little pony expert, or whatever she might be into. And when she left, it was back to crickets. I always found that so damn off putting and weird.
Ah, my frame of reference is more MMO, so discords and stuff tend to be at least 30% women if not more. MMO guys can sometimes be creeps but it's never the whole channel, usually there's already a woman in the group when you join.
Although I'm maybe a little biased, the discord I run calls out bullshit real fast, and we've been at it for years, lol. Still, I'm sure there are some really cringe groups out there. That, and there is a type of harassment that's mostly through direct messages. That trend isn't too strong lately, I think, because of how many guys play female characters it's a game of minesweeper most lonely guys aren't willing to play.