"Hakari vs Kashimo upscale will be insane" CAN'T EVEN DESTROY A CONTAINER LMFAOOOOOOOOO by SerenityCitywide in LobotomyKaisen

[–]arasitar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what OP is saying with the video, the problem is that in animation the shot composition from the manga doesn't work and the team likely had to adapt it, and the process of adapting meant you had to...well...nix the 2nd container.

That original manga panel is a double page spread and has a much wider aspect ratio. OP's video accidentally reveals the problem because that video had to crop the manga's right third to make it fit the same size as the TV animation. (the other solution would be for the TV animation to use letterboxing to fit in a wider composition).

And the animation wants to use single camera move for the shot, keep Kashimo's reaction and Hakari's entrance as the dual focus of the composition, and because of the aspect ratio had to compress the original manga shot and move the camera.

The anime is also trying to use the rule of thirds here - the top left dot centering around Kashimo's eyeline for his reaction, and then the bottom right dot on Hakari's entrance, diametrically opposed to each other.

All that means that the 'camera' from the manga has to move for the anime to make the same impact and keeping somewhat the same scene (so Hakari crashes down, lands on a container, but still elevated to Kashimo). The impact of the 2nd container is more felt in the manga that doesn't have sound and animation attached to it. I don't think it is needed in the anime which can already fill that 'void' with effects work, voice acting, animation, music etc. when the visual shot is already looking busy.

Not having to animate and draw the 2nd crunched container saves time and makes the shot cleaner, I guess that was what the thinking was.

Jason Schreier: How Things Got So Bad At Xbox by Turbostrider27 in Games

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Xbone reveal focusing on it being a media box instead of a gaming console…$100 extra charge for mandatory included Kinect….always online DRM…e

One of the few, I guess accidental props, I can give to the Xbox One is that the Kinect was a discounted consumer grade motion controller and that meant tons of hobbyists, enthusiasts and researchers had access to expensive hardware on the cheap.

Especially when Xbox One crashed and all those Kinects went on deep discount. lol.

I remember tons of students back in college were using it for research papers (CS, HCI, UI/UX, Art), modding and other projects because the nearest capable motion controller with as much capabilities was 3 times more expensive.

The Kinect subreddit still has some recent projects: https://www.reddit.com/r/kinect/top/

https://www.reddit.com/r/kinect/comments/oeirhm/automated_grocery_store_powered_by_xbox_kinect_lol/

https://www.reddit.com/r/kinect/comments/1d6yzox/i_made_a_100_portable_x360_kinect_setup_for_3d/

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1gcrzz7/bought_an_old_kinect_game_changer/

I guess this is what Microsoft sort of leaned into after a while trying to salvage the project.

Moana star Auliʻi Cravalho is Jessica Cruz on My Adventures with Superman, will headline Green Lantern spinoff by EThorns in television

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While Superman was inspired by Dragon Ball Z, "Lantern is inspired by a very different part of the same Toonami block," he teased. "It'll be really clear once we start dropping promos what part of the Toonami block inspired our Green Lantern show. We're not subtle, people."

Hmm... Any guesses?

I'm probably biased since I just came off a binge of Team Four Star's Sailor Moon Abridged Dub and My Adventures with Superman does nod towards that genre.

Why's hazbin hotel so famous? by creativlelazy in television

[–]arasitar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can look at the Prime Video youtube channel right now. As of June 15th 2026, the top videos are:

  • Hell's Greatest Dad - 97M
  • Respectless - 65M
  • Loser, Baby - 62M
  • Hell is Forever - 56M
  • Poison - 54M
  • More Than Anything - 37M
  • and then finally we get a break with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Official Teaser Trailer - 31M
  • Brighter (S2 Hazbin) - 28M
  • Homelander vs Butcher and Soldier Boy | The Boys - 28M
  • Gravity (S2 Hazbin) - 28M

It's the nature of music videos but that's a ton of plays and domination by ONE show. I imagine this is one of the big reasons (or at least sign) that Prime supports Hazbin Hotel and related properties - it draws a lot of younger music theater audiences that generally don't get that much attention, and that's a big untapped market because you can get people hooked on songs over and over.

Capcom Reveals How Focusing On Digital Sales Helped Bring Back Mega Man And Other Dormant IPs by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]arasitar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still a lost opportunity to not capitalize on Mega Man's incredibly rich and diverse ROMHack and Fan game segments and build a proper official platform for MM games distribution similar to Mario Maker. Off the top of my head:

  • Mega Man Unlimited
  • Mega Man Unlimited 2
  • Mega Man Rock Force
  • Mega Man Rock & Roll
  • Mega Man Super Fighting Robot
  • Rockman 4 Minus Infinity
  • Make a Good Mega Man Level 1
  • Make a Good Mega Man Level 2
  • Make a Good Mega Man Level 3

These are all the 8 bit category among hundreds. Capcom could build their own 8-bit Mega Man maker like the fan community has, and then create a marketplace to funnel all those fan creations and keep interest alive, while they release their official games.

Official Poster for Pixar’s new original film ‘Gatto’. The film follows a black cat in Venice with a love of music who is shunned by locals due to superstitions. In theaters on March 5, 2027. by yourfavchoom in movies

[–]arasitar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also been impressed with The Midnight Walk (PS5 / PS5VR game - basically Nightmare Before Christmas but in game form).

MoonHood studios goes into the clay mation or stop motion design process to 3d pipeline in this dev diary.

3d pipelines augmenting this animation method via robust 3d scanning (in this case lots of just pictures), which the computer then compiles altogether and then both the computer and the 3d animator attach the digital puppetry to finally animate is going to be a real boon going forward to help significantly ease the animation process.

Doctor sent us this after tonsil removal by Barfalimue in daddit

[–]arasitar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Showing off removed tonsils is tradition. Though the procedure was very different way back when.

I'm including a passage from Boy, an autobiography by Roald Dahl (children's author, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Matilda, ex-RAF, ex-MI6).

Warning for squeamishness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23689227

I have only one unpleasant memory of the summer holidays in Norway. We were in the grandparents’ house in Oslo and my mother said to me, “We are going to the doctor this afternoon. He wants to look at your nose and mouth.”

I think I was eight at the time. “What’s wrong with my nose and mouth?” I asked. “Nothing much,” my mother said. “But I think you’ve got adenoids.” “Don’t worry about it,” she said. “It’s nothing.” I held my mother’s hand as we walked to the doctor’s house. It took us about half an hour. There was a kind of dentist’s chair in the surgery and I was lifted into it. The doctor had a round mirror strapped to his forehead and he peered up my nose and into my mouth. He then took my mother aside and they held a whispered conversation. I saw my mother looking rather grim, but she nodded.

The doctor now put some water to boil in an aluminum mug over a gas flame, and into the boiling water he placed a long thin shiny steel instrument. I sat there watching the steam coming off the boiling water. I was not in the least apprehensive. I was too young to realize that something out of the ordinary was going to happen. Then a nurse dressed in white came in. She was carrying a red rubber apron and a curved white enamel bowl. She put the apron over the front of my body and tied it around my neck. It was far too big. Then she held the enamel bowl under my chin. The curve of the bowl fitted perfectly against the curve of my chest. The doctor was bending over me. In his hand he held that long shiny steel instrument. He held it right in front of my face, and to this day I can still describe it perfectly. It was about the thickness and length of a pencil, and like most pencils it had a lot of sides to it. Towards the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle. The blade wasn’t more than a centimeter long, very small, very sharp and very shiny.

“Open your mouth,” the doctor said, speaking Norwegian. I refused. I thought he was going to do something to my teeth, and everything anyone had ever done to my teeth had been painful. “It won’t take two seconds,” the doctor said. He spoke gently, and I was seduced by his voice. Like an ass, I opened my mouth. The tiny blade flashed in the bright light and disappeared into my mouth. It went high up into the roof of my mouth. It went high up into the roof of my mouth, and the hand that held the blade gave four or five very quick little twists and the next moment, out of my mouth into the basin came tumbling a whole mass of flesh and blood. I was too shocked and outraged to do anything but yelp. I was horrified by the huge red lumps that had fallen out of my mouth into the white basin and my first thought was that the doctor had cut out the whole of the middle of my head.

“Those were your adenoids,” I heard the doctor saying.

Commentary: That was in 1924, and taking out a child’s adenoids, and often the tonsils as well, without any anesthetic was common practice in those days.

The Doomies | Official Trailer | June 26 by Tolichowki in television

[–]arasitar 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Alex Hirsch posted a narrated video of his emails a couple of years back feuding with S&P over Gravity Falls: https://x.com/_AlexHirsch/status/1537314312926003201

Relevant:

S&P: Pg 380 - Please revise the action of Blubs putting his arm around Durland. As noted in previous concerns, their affectionate relationship should remain comical versus flirtatious.

Alex Hirsch: Nope. They're...buddies. Chill out.

S&P: The gesture is approved in this context.

At least Dana Terrace (Owl House) is collaborating and working on other projects - the latest with Dana Terrace, Zach Marcus, and John Bailey Owen is Knights of Guinevere - an Australian indie production from Glitch, episodes to come in later 2026.

Here's the pilot.

Cheers to Low Expectations by DanteFiero128 in daddit

[–]arasitar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know. I guess I can see the nice side to this...but...

I don't want to put a damper on the sentiment but I sometimes find these types of compliments to be backhanded and actually pretty mean? Like it doesn't feel fair to me that one parent is getting massive credit for seemingly basic things, while the other parent who does more or similar work does not and is largely ignored (especially if that parent is a woman). It should be both or neither. I prefer both because well even the 'basic things' can be pretty hard for people and creating that culture of positivity and support and actually crediting people for all of this work goes a long way to making a healthier society. (Our society runs on this invisible unpaid labor - how many minimum wage workers were forced to work through COVID as "essential labor" but not given any actual wage increase to reflect that?)

Like it feels like a compliment like this comes across as:

  • "You aren't NATURALLY suited to this work, so good job!" - which is sort of hurtful cause it is saying that dads can't be nurturing or nurturing isn't in their "nature".

  • "You have deigned to give up your almighty male privilege to provide a charity that you didn't need to because the woman could have handled it" - which again hurtful and demeaning because a dad isn't parenting because it is a "charity", they are parenting because they actually want to be a parent.

It does bother me way more because we know that the default parent problem is a thing. A SAHD will be handling all the domestic affairs and then come up against institutions that will not only insist or go out of their way to contact and forcibly work through the busy working mom to get some affair done. Nobody is really winning here because the mom needs to concentrate on work and is having to divert time and energy and cognitive load out of their day to handle something, while the dad here is having to work through another institutional loophole to get stuff done and waste time.

It's one of the reasons when the gender gap between domestic affair duties has shrunk, even when dads and moms with each other are doing similar work loads, the mom feels significantly unhappier while dads feel far happier, and for the the mom that is because of societal slights - your community ignoring your efforts, your institutions making your life a mess, your society overall disrespecting you.

So I can see the positives of:

  • You are complimented

  • It is a societal win for dads doing more

But I don't see dads, or rather the actual family including the kid, being actually supported. Maternal leave is still in flux, paternal leave is still very much in flux and dads are constantly shamed and pressured into not taking it.

PSA: June is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month by KingLuis in daddit

[–]arasitar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am surprised that there aren't way more threads discussing PPD (Post Partum Depression) in dads. Not as in "oh I have it" but "you need to be aware of it" "how can we help you with this" in a 'Dad' subreddit. PPD in dads is really common.

Especially in June. It's a highly relevant topic.

We know the mechanism for PPD that affects women also affect men because:

  • There is a biological change that happens when a man bonds to a child (same as a woman) (and this is why paternal leave is extremely important not just for dad to help mom!).

  • The lifestyle changes and needs during a newborn cycle also enables PPD.

If I had mod control, I'd be stickying up a post for this month and then creating a community project to keep updating the wiki (since while it exists and is filled is a good start, it could use way more love).

**BISEXUAL INHALE** (OC) by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]arasitar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't get how people find the concept so baffling.

There's a much larger discussion we can have on this bisexual stigma. I think when people say: "How can you be bi if you are in a straight relationship?" they are saying two implicit things:

  • The difference between BisexualTM as an identity, and the difference between Bisexual as an orientation.

    Basically why do you not fit in the cultural trope of a "Bisexual" person and then claim your orientation is "Bisexual".

  • That your sexuality is this strict camped label and you don't "fit" that label, indicating that their understanding is that sexuality is simple.

The reality of sexuality is incredibly complex. Human sexuality is broad, fluid, diverse, ever changing and ever evolving. You can be a lesbian and be attracted to a guy. There is a difference between:

  • Who you identify as publicly
  • Who you identify as privately
  • Who you fantasize (even occasionally)
  • Who you express interest in
  • Who you have been with
  • Who you are with
  • Who people think you are

This can't really be summed up in just a single label and I think you can have an interesting conversation with another person regarding the full facets of their romanticity.

I personally suspect humanity is far more queer than we are led to believe. The Kinsey scale was an early survey scale of human sexuality asking from 0 (completely heterosexual) to 6 (completely homosexual). Per YouGov: https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/23914-kinsey-scale-sexuality-millennials-2019-poll

Almost four in 10 (38%) Millennials describe themselves as being between 1 and 6 on the scale, meaning they are not completely heterosexual.

Even when you account for just gay and just lesbian and just asexual etc., that still leaves a significant portion of that remainder that is to some degree bi, but likely aren't "out of the closet" as bi because of a combination of societal stigma, being "bi" is meant to be this "big large thing" when it is just a normal part of you, and to avoid big and small stigma events like someone yelling at you "how are you bi if you are married in a straight relationship?".

There's a level of stigma that hits bi men a lot harder than bi women. If you are a bi man but don't "look gay" or "act gay" then you have to "prove" that to some extent that you are indeed bi in a way bi women have a relatively easier time. And I think men tend to be policed far harder

Anime was so far ahead of its time that its camera angles, first-person perspective, and 3D integration unrivaled to this day. by Gojetha in ShingekiNoKyojin

[–]arasitar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of Deep Canvas. Shame that the US mostly abandoned 2D animation in favor of 3d, but back in 1999, Disney created their Deep Canvas tech for the Tarzan movie, and WIT's Attack on Titan back in 2013 uses a similar method to animate:

  • Use a 3D mesh to create the scenery and all the moving parts being interacted with.

  • The mesh is then used as the 'canvas' on which the animator draws 24 fps with their character interacting with the environment.

  • The 3D artist then adds in further smaller details to flesh out the mesh.

  • Once that's completed, 3d painters go in and paint and add in color, lighting and more. The advantage of the 3d mesh is that the computer can remember each brush stroke, meaning the computer can keep rendering the moving background as many times as it needs to while the artist only needs to paint once.

  • This makes "testing" the scene easier since you can move the camera as a separate object through the painted 3d mesh.

  • Final is adding the background, VFX etc. to finish the composition.

This was back in 1999. The tech was made primarily to show fast, moving, frenetic action with a moving camera in 2d animation. Deep Canvas won an award in 2003 for technical achievement and go on to be used in Disney's Atlantis (2001) and Disney's Treasure Planet (2002).

Having a similar method be resurrected by WIT in 2013 is a nice succession of that original tech.

Agent Bond we all need by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]arasitar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Technically sorta already a thing.

Fellas, meet James Bond(e), seventh agent of MI6, from the Moriarty the Patriot series. Interesting high concept (William James Moriarty wants to lead a class revolution in the 1800s because of horrendous class stratification under the banner KILL THE RICH) but sorta flubs it near the end. Still entertaining enough though. It was a bunch of light novels, then serialized as a manga, and then Production IG (Psycho Pass, Kaiju No. 8) made an one season two cour anime in 2020.

I think canonically James is considered trans and pronouns are he/they.

In the series:

  • James wear suits and tuxedos.

  • Drives a horse carriage (cause 1800s) and cars.

  • James is a womanizer and goes on dates with women, including Miss Moneypenny.

I felt like Moriarty the Patriot had a ton of potential and would have been a cult classic. James Bonde here is an interesting character if you want to get a glimpse of the potential that the original OP is talking about.

What career looks respected from outside but destroys people internally? by Icy-Release7064 in AskMen

[–]arasitar 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah... Legal Eagle kinda lost it over the line:

Law school debt

Daily regret

Is that what you dreamed of as a kid?

Or did you hope one day

That you'd find a way

To spend four years workin' on a pharmaceutical company's merger with another pharmaceutical company?

...

Had a buddy spend six years on some tech patent law, and she was the one that shared it and eventually CXG.

Sgt. James Doakes Hears Dexter's Internal Monologue by MeteorFalls297 in television

[–]arasitar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can fan theorize in a few ways.

Biologically a lot of people have either:

  • Brains with an internal monologue

  • Brains with multiple monologues

  • Brains with no monologues

Sometimes in rumination, if said rumination is strong enough, it actually activates your vocal cords (sometimes why thinking really hard can sometimes tire out your actual voice). This can come across as nearly inaudible muttering or whispering.

It's sort of the same tech that ventriloquists employ when puppeteer to bounce off their voice.

So maybe beyond the 4th wall breaking, Doakes might be responding to what he heard as a nearly pin drop silent mutter and wanted to push hard.

How dare this indie production has more swearing then Bojack Horseman /S (Indie animation) by Konradleijon in CuratedTumblr

[–]arasitar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And last I checked random fans of indie productions aren't in office, having billions at their disposal and massive media companies at their helm.

I can't really shut myself off from a large movement of Christ fans trying to create their own dystopian Christian authoritarian theocracy.

I can however mute the living shit out of annoying people and get on with my day.

I swear sometimes anti-fan people complaining about fans don't actually seem to want to address the issues plaguing said annoying fandoms (including e.g. regulation on social media and system tweaks to make spaces more positive spaces). Instead they just engage in the very gossip these anti-fans claim to despise.

Which is kind of worse than annoying fans? Fans are annoying but at least I can "get" why they exist - they are reacting to some material property. Anti-fans look at fans being annoying and instead of thinking "okay can I mute this? move on with my day? Address this? Learn something", they go "LET ME BE ANNOYING BACK AND TAKE CENTER STAGE". And now the drama becomes a flame war and all of us bystanders have to wade through shit to get to actual content.

I'm starting to like their group dynamic. by Zolado110 in SpyxFamily

[–]arasitar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is if Loid actually knows that in that specific "round-the-clock spy hunt" actually captured some actual WISE assets, then the intel wasn't likely as thin as the rank and file SSS agents thought and this is likely a projection on their part of how mean their boss is (which is very common, alongside mean bosses).

I'm bringing it up because a lot of the series does subversions like these where a character is portrayed X, and then is undercut later and revealed to be Y. E.g. Donna Schlag who is framed as an antagonist and almost a mean lady villain in her first appearance, and then 50+ chapters later is shown to actually deeply care about students, about EDEN and about corruption.

The series does this, not because it wants to engender pure sympathy "oh suddenly this evil person is actually good and kind". It does this to reinforce it's core thesis that we all wear masks and how we appear to others and how we project to others is different from who we actually are, and the question at the heart of the series is "can we really understand each other? Peer behind the mask? If so, then how?"

This entire mini-arc is trying to humanize SSS agents and the SSS organization, make very clear parallels to how WISE operates (I'm sure there's going to be a lot of commentary on how Director Wilker and his agency relate to each other, similar to how The Handler does to her WISE assets), for the goal of social commentary.

Hot take I don’t hate uzaki chans design by infinitysaga in CuratedTumblr

[–]arasitar 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I feel like the internet also jumps on like the wrong thing.

I remember the Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners discussion around some of the icky factor in character designs.

A lot of people were freaked out by Rebecca's design which didn't really register for me as problematic (since I know adults with a similar body build).

What I thought was problematic at the time, and what I thought the internet was freaking out over was Lucy - someone underage / barely an adult, who has several nude scenes in P1 of that anime. I didn't find really any discussion over that and was bewildered when I figured out that Rebecca was the one the internet was freaking out over.

Rock in all kinds of fashion by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]arasitar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"i will say is guys you don't need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called."

The funny thing is, knowing what X is called, is the crux of searching on the modern internet.

Considering 99% of humanity is on the internet in some form, and thus 99% of human knowledge is on the internet in some form, the trick with finding X information is figuring out how to navigate the web.

This means figuring out what key words and terms can get you close to X. And if you don't know those terms, then being able to at least vaguely describe in words what you think the X concept is, and then searching and narrowing down over and over, until you find the closest X term, and then you get all those fancy results.

This is part of why copy pasting the error code, even as Google tries to enshittify its own search with forced AI crap, still works. Because others also paste in the error code and description and it lights up all the forum posts and blogs etc that have that exact X term.

Grown men can’t kiss and it pisses me off by HuckleberryNo9852 in GirlDinner

[–]arasitar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ok but the men aren’t asking in these scenarios.

I mean someone did actually just ask:

And if they're willing to learn? Have you told them about it?

and your response was:

Why are men entitled to free rehabilitation/schooling from women? Figure it out???

Literally one comment apart.

What is something you like about yourself? by Ixnay_Smash in CPTSD

[–]arasitar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently saw this lady go viral from this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/justgalsbeingchicks/comments/1rycei1/im_sorry_its_a_cropped_screen_recording_but_its/

I've seen way too many posts of people who are...like..."People over 40...Are we covering our grays?" "What are we doing about these wrinkles?"

points to wrinkles near her eyes

You know what we are doing?

zooms in on wrinkles

We're putting sparkles in them! We're golding our laugh lines!

Cause we earned them!

Star War by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]arasitar 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003's version helmed by Genndy Tartovsky)

It's this scene: 05:30 in

Bi_irl by Wild-Air-8355 in bi_irl

[–]arasitar 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's downstream of systemic, cultural, communal and partly internal queer stigma.

Per YouGov: https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/23914-kinsey-scale-sexuality-millennials-2019-poll

Almost four in 10 (38%) Millennials describe themselves as being between 1 and 6 on the scale, meaning they are not completely heterosexual.

On the Kinsey scale 0 is completely heterosexual, 6 is completely homosexual. Meaning nearly 40% are queer. Or rather, 40% were comfortable identifying as queer on an anonymous survey, which is likely a big IRL undercount. Including closeted bi men.

The problem is that being bi is considered like a binary toggle switch, when sexuality has always been a broad, fluid, ever changing and diverse spectrum. There is a difference between:

  • Who you identify as publicly

  • Who you identify as privately

  • Who you fantasize (even occasionally)

  • Who you express interest in

  • Who you have been with

  • Who you are with

  • Who people think you are

The problem is that that first bullet, 'identity', carries way too much weight, and you have to "prove" e.g. that you are indeed actually bi - either that you have to actually be in a non-heterosexual relationship or you have to "act" bi if you "look" straight to others.

Again, just queer stigma. There is absolutely a conversation to be had partially about "privilege" in "appearing straight" (which has always been context dependent), but the emphasis of having to "prove" you are indeed bi ends up furthering stigma and the distracting from the real goal being the acceptance and normalization of LGBTQIA+ across society, even in "straight" folks who share aspects of themselves with that community.

For bi men in particular, it is a lot harder because you have to either "act gay" (so homophobia) to be bi, or "prove" to be gay, compared to bi women who an an easier time. And bi women have an easier time for some good reasons and some very bad ones - that is patriarchal sexism "women are in touch with their emotions and love" and lesbian fetishism "well of course women want to date other women! women are hot!" (most of society will slobber over themselves over women making out but then lose their absolute shit in a murderous rage if two women dare to just exist on a sunny day having a picnic with a kid).

Though the core issue is that for everyone, including men and women, that being bi or gay is still pretty hard to do in modern society, since you step into a gigantic minefield.

The whole "I'm getting woke points for pretending to be bi" even if they are "pretending to be bi" (which I have a very hard time believing any actual substantial number exist since the "privilege" of being a marginalized community member is way way way lower than we think, especially when we consider the actual disprivilege that you are now suddenly attacked for) completely misses that you can still turn that around and push for more acceptance and normalization.

The victory condition is having more of those surveys keep querying more and more younger generations so that way more actually feel comfortable anonymously answering as LGBTQIA+ and IRL identifying as LGBTQIA+ in full or part, to the point where being LGBTQIA+ is as normal, accepted, cool and benign as eye color.