It just used to be responded to by “Idiot, you know there’s no girls on the Internet.”
Of course, back in the day, many women pretended to be men to avoid the creepy attention, while some men pretended to be women to get the creepy attention.
We’re in 2001/2002, right? While computers were becoming increasingly ubiquitous, home internet capabilities were still expensive and/or limited. Even if you had a home internet connection, generally the high speed connection available to a major corporation or a government funded facility was probably… just… so much better.
Wasn’t it the 90s when the world got flooded with AOL CDs? I’ve never thought of my household as being early adopters of anything (we finally got a flatscreen TV last year), and we were online in 2001. But yes, a very slow one.
It isn’t even clear if female Alex and the previous Alex in DoA are the same person, so getting any clarity on the current gender identity of Walkyverse Alex isn’t going to come anytime soon.
The characters who’re directly based on real friends of Willis’ (who weren’t from his childhood, anyway) have very minor roles. Hooper’s (eventually) the exception, and it took the Twin Towers falling for that to happen.
Ah jeez that looks like a concerned eyebrow, rather than the annoyed eyebrow that catfish hijinks would elicit. Aaaaaand now i’m building a whole headcanon about alex being closeted but out to dina, who is worried alex would get hurt if she is the one chatting with joe
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Spooky.
I’m so glad “lol no girls on the internet!!!” is finally dead. It was always such a lazy joke. I’m pretty sure women have been online since Usenet.
I wish it really went away, but now it’s just been replaced with “oh shit we found a girl, let’s send 5000 creepy PMs”
I’m part of a Cat pictures group on Facebook that’s partly built around trolling people like that… It’s called Pussy Shots.
That part’s always been there too.
It just used to be responded to by “Idiot, you know there’s no girls on the Internet.”
Of course, back in the day, many women pretended to be men to avoid the creepy attention, while some men pretended to be women to get the creepy attention.
People are weird.
On the internet, women are men, men are kids, and kids are FBI agents.
Is this punchline better or worse in retrospect?
I’d say it’s somewhere between ‘guiltily hilarious’ and ‘ironically tragic’.
It’s funny on a meta level. From the beginning, Alex could not and would not be contained, and now we know why.
In retrospect it reads like Alex is still in egg mode, so I’d say better.
… was this back when people couldn’t just do chat rooms from home? I forget tech’s timeline.
We’re in 2001/2002, right? While computers were becoming increasingly ubiquitous, home internet capabilities were still expensive and/or limited. Even if you had a home internet connection, generally the high speed connection available to a major corporation or a government funded facility was probably… just… so much better.
Wasn’t it the 90s when the world got flooded with AOL CDs? I’ve never thought of my household as being early adopters of anything (we finally got a flatscreen TV last year), and we were online in 2001. But yes, a very slow one.
Ahahahaha, my house didn’t get dial-up until 2004. Wanna know tech’s timeline?
3G STARTED in 2001.
Wait, Joe is judging a girl as hot without actually seeing her? That’s quite the change.
“Look, Alex, if you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.”
Does this mean that the other assistant lecturer in DoA _is_ this Alex?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/02-everything-youve-ever-wanted/alex-2/
It isn’t even clear if female Alex and the previous Alex in DoA are the same person, so getting any clarity on the current gender identity of Walkyverse Alex isn’t going to come anytime soon.
I would say it is just cuz its really cool seeing someone transition in DoA (and fuck looking so good so fast I’m so jealous)
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You talk about how you forget about Tony, but man, has Alex ever done anything of value at this point?
The characters who’re directly based on real friends of Willis’ (who weren’t from his childhood, anyway) have very minor roles. Hooper’s (eventually) the exception, and it took the Twin Towers falling for that to happen.
Ah jeez that looks like a concerned eyebrow, rather than the annoyed eyebrow that catfish hijinks would elicit. Aaaaaand now i’m building a whole headcanon about alex being closeted but out to dina, who is worried alex would get hurt if she is the one chatting with joe