If you have followed the speedrunning scene in any way, you might know who I'm talking about, but either way I'm not going to name any names. It's not important.
Many years ago there was a speedrunner who was specialized in speedrunning a particular popular game, and who was really beloved by the community. He held the world record for that game for a time, he was a regular participant in the Games Done Quick charity events and other similar streams, and overall he was really liked by both speedrunners and the audience alike. He was a regular Twitch.tv streamer, and his number of followers and subscribers was in the tens of thousands (which, when we are talking about a speedrunning channel, is quite a lot). One of the pinnacles and most famous events of speedrunning this particular game was his last world record of its any% category, which he got some years ago. Fans of this game's speedrunning scene remember this event fondly. Whenever he appeared on any event (such as Games Done Quick), the number of viewers peaked.
Then, at some point, he seemed to take some kind of hiatus from speedrunning. This happened somewhere around when he got his last word record. I suppose people thought that he's just taking some time off from speedrunning after this record.
Then, one day, he announced that he had decided that he's a woman now, rather out of the blue. Since the speedrunning community, for some reason, is largely quite left-leaning, many people were gushing all over this announcement.
His demeanor changed quite radically. He started streaming on twitch.tv again... but not to speedrun. Instead, his streams were very self-indulgent. Essentially he did nothing else than to lay on a couch and talk about himself, for hours and hours.
He started hemorrhaging followers. First slowly, then faster and faster. The number of followers to his channel started dropping quite rapidly. Literally thousands and thousands of them stopped following the channel.
Unsurprisingly, his reaction and attitude to this quick drop in followers and viewers was mostly egotistical and self-indulgent, highly dismissive and even derogatory of his own audience who where leaving in droves. He quite quickly stopped making these streams.
As far as I understand, at least by that point he hadn't gone through any surgeries or anything (this was quite some years ago and things might have changed, I have no idea; it's not like I'm interested in knowing or have followed the story). He merely declared himself to be a women, changed his name, and started cross-dressing, and started acting in a really self-indulgent self-serving smug manner.
But of course since the speedrunning community, as with so many other communities, has been completely invaded and overtaken by social justice warriors, and thus has become a completely fascistic totalitarian oppressive regime, everybody in the community takes his word as gospel, and ignores or justifies his attitude and behavior, use his new chosen name and refer to him as "she".
In a manner of speaking there's also a bit of historic revisionism going on, as every single time some speedrunner refers to his achievements in speedrunning, especially to his most fondly remembered highlights (such as his then-world-record run), they will use his new name and use his new pronouns, even though he didn't go by that name nor by those pronouns back then.
Most probably if you were to refer to him as "he" and use his old name, you would be banned from Twitch and from the Games Done Quick events (if you happened to be one of those people who go there). His word is the Holy Gospel, and anybody who dares to not obey it is a heretic who must be harshly punished and excommunicated.
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