dash-n-step reblogged
thinking about how 4chan users overuse of the slur 'fag' to refer to each other eventually mutated into the word functioning more like a suffix used to denote a callsign, '[identifying detail]-fag', in lieu of people identifying each other by names, and how because of this gay guys would refer to themselves themselves as 'gayfags' when they needed to clarify that they were indeed actually gay when referring to themselves as faggots