What's life like as a guy who pretends to be female online? Or vice versa.

About a decade ago I was on a dating site without much luck and getting very few replies to messages,

so I thought the best way to get tips on what not to do was sign up a fake profile as a woman

and see what kind of messages were sent and just not do anything that appeared more than once.

Hello, folks. Just to shut down a certain set of debates early on, this video is about

male identifying individuals who knowingly present a misleading personality online in order

to pursue or obtain something. This is, and I can't stress this enough, not any sort of commentary

or criticism on trans people. You'd hope I wouldn't have to say that, but you never know

on the internet. Okay, on with the video. When I was at university, we were doing a project on

communities and online communities. Our group got assigned to look into and research second to life, as at the time

it was still quite new and a current thing, and as I was the one with the best laptop, I got the

job of playing it. We drafted some questions, we'd try an answer, and some kind of short surveys

people could answer for data for our presentation at the end, and I made a male character

that looked like me and

jumped on in. After visiting a few social hubs and numerous attempts and hours, not one person

would really help out, or they wouldn't give us much more than stupid answers. One of the people

in our group thought it was just me, and came and watched and realized people were kind of unhelpful

towards us. So, we re-rolled my

character as a female, tall, slim, blonde, and acted a bit more like a video game noob. We got

more help almost instantly than I'd gotten hours. People would even see us talking to someone

and then come on over to volunteer their answers and opinions as well out of the blue.

Asking if we needed things, showing us places to go, one guy bought us some outfits and gave us

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