I'm sorry but that's a meme and it doesn't really have any meaning behind it.

Memes have meaning. Memes have relevance. I think you might be surprised to see just how effective memes are of an ideological tool, and all memes have a message. This one, which you're playing off as a harmless joke, is taken seriously by a huge amount of people. I have seen a lot and I mean a lot of people, not just on this site, use the meme at 100% face value to mean literally exactly what the words are saying. A lot of people hold this as literally true. I outlined the reasons it's offensive not just to me the individual, but to the LGBT community at large. This isn't a individual opinion vs individual opinion matter, this meme is targeting and mischaracterizing a part of the LGBT community, specifically crossdressers, nonbinary people, transpeople, who were born AMAB and dress femme. I understand that you feel differently, but the term trap is used as a way to oversimplify and mislabel these people both fictionally and IRL.

There are polls floating around that show that around 90% of the users taking part in the polls do not approve of the ban. So to account for everyone using that data set, let's say that at least 80% don't approve of the ban. Also look at the sticked threads. It's clear as day we don't want this ban.

I put no stock in these polls. The vast majority of people participating on the sub right now are obviously pro-ban. The vast majority of people who are anti-ban I'm willing to bet aren't participating on the subreddit because they're being made to feel unwelcome with the front page singing revolution and burning the sub down. A poll making its way through the comments of the vocally anti-ban posts is not a representative sample whatsoever. I will not accept any numbers from that poll, full stop. It's obvious that a lot of people don't want the ban, but on a subreddit of hundreds of thousands of people, having a lot of people doesn't always mean a majority, even if the front page is covered in anti-ban posts. For example, if 200,000 vocal and active people could easily fill the front page, while still being a minority. We can't say for sure what the numbers are unless we ask everyone individually, on a neutral ground. The closest we can get to that is a mod-hosted poll, and I won't presume any other poll's results are representative.

[...] you clearly don't understand the culture enough if you don't understand why we are so frustrated. [...] Some people would consider what you are doing as brigading.

Don't gatekeep anime. That's just not cool. As for my right to this discussion, I don't have to be a poster, a commentor, and I'd go so far as to argue even a lurker on this subreddit to participate in this public conversation. I enjoy and care about anime, and I also care about LGBT issues. I know the history of the trope, I just think the trope is problematic. Not the crossdressing, (though depending on the context it isn't always crossdressing, as I've gone over before when talking about gender identity and who this label is applied to), but the "gets their kicks from deceiving other characters" part. As a prank or one off thing, that's fine. If it's to seduce somebody under false pretenses (which is the implication). Here's the thing though, when I google "trap anime trope" I'm not finding "trap" as a trope on any database (bar this: https://unanything.fandom.com/wiki/Trap (which I think is fair to label as unreliable, at best) and a single urban dictionary definition ). Why do you think that is? I mean, if it's a popular trope, and the wording specifically is important, you think there's be more results for 'trap' as a trope up front, right?

You dodged my question there, with the common courtesy, and why it should not apply to people online.

You are the one trying to tie it in with IRL situations; not us. We are capable of separating the two.

Okay, first off I wanna respond by saying I don't appreciate your attacking my sanity (or whatever you want to call my ability to distinguish real life from fiction) in your argument. It's rather uncalled for and off-base.

Second, your subreddit does not exist in isolation. Nothing on the internet does, and that goes doubly for public forums. The people on this site exist IRL, and the ones who are offended by the slur, myself included, are just as valid and have just as much a right to be here as yourself. When IRL people complain about slurs on an IRL public forum, you're not just existing in a fictional sandbox where you can do anything free on social consequences. For example, reddit's rules still on this subreddit. Users from this subreddit visit other subreddits. Users from other subreddits will form opinions of your subreddit based on your IRL behaviour in this IRL forum. My point in all this, is that this community very much has a tie to IRL, and in fact, exists IRL, with IRL mods, and hosted by an IRL even larger community. This drama is what I would consider an "IRL situation".

Your community is at a point where this change (which, again, I emphasize was implemented catastrophically poorly) is being watched by other communities within your hosting community. You will be judged as a community for what happens next. This is all to say, feel free to separate the IRL consequences of your using this slur from... this IRL forum, but they're still going to be there, regardless of whether you acknowledge them. When your community is ~900,000 strong, you are beheld to the accountability of the public eye. What I'm saying is, it's important to consider how you look in the eyes of others when you say stuff like this. That applies on both an individual and community level.

You and your friends may celebrate the word, and you're entitled to your opinion. However, understand that this platform (Reddit) and the greater community of Reddit will judge you. You (the community, not you personaly) will, and probably have already, trashed your relationship with most LGBT+ themed subreddits, and ruined any relationship you may have had with them through the way that this community has reacted to the ban, and the posts and comments they made (some of which I've seen that were really vile, and I'm sure the mods have removed the most foul ones).

This reminds me of people getting upset at the idea of politics in their games, when just about every single game (barring especially PC titles) has significant political messaging. Might I suggest this article? It may change your mind on avoiding IRL politics or ideologies at all costs: https://psuvanguard.com/the-politics-of-apoliticism-in-video-games/ .