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{{trope}}

[[File:s on the internet 7975.jpg|link=Narbonic|frame|The consequences can be blinding.]]

 

 

An Internet trope that was originally true, then an attitude in general, and finally a meme with only lingering traces left.

 

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* Part of why so many people were in denial about Tsukasa in the ''[[.hack]]'' series. The series averts this in general, there's literally only two cases of a male pretending to be female.

** The shippers sure didn't help much.

* [[Durarara!!]] Kanra=Izaya. And he's particularly girly online, leading to many fanworks of him crossdressing to get "in character." Also, {{spoiler|it's suspected in the novels that Pure Water 100% is Aoba pretending to be a girl.}}

** Kind of subverted in that Setton (a basically androgynous user) turns out to be Celty, and Saika is a girl... well, originally a knife, but NOW a girl...

 

* In ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'', Hank McCoy believes that he is spending his time chatting with a supermodel mutant named Naomi. It's actually the Blob, searching for info on Magneto's death. {{spoiler|1=Cue things turning sour, when Hank accidentally lets it slip that Magneto's still alive and agrees to meet "Naomi", only to have Brotherhood telepaths rip their leader's location out of McCoy's head}}. Blob even says that everyone on the internet is either guys or guys pretending to be girls.

 

* ''[[The Matrix]]'': Neo is surprised that "Trinity" is a woman, he thought it was a guy. She replies that most guys assume she is a man, mocking the trope.

** Earlier in the drafts, "Switch" was intended to be a female in the Matrix and a male in the real world.

* In ''[[Cube|Cube 2: Hypercube]]'', the (female) protagonist is surprised to find out that the legendary hacker "Alex Trusk" is a girl, as the guy who originally told her about Alex assumed "he" must be male.

 

* In ''Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese'', Mike interrupts his review of ''You've Got Mail'' to remind us that not only is Meg Ryan not chatting with us online, but that "''no one who looks like Meg Ryan is chatting with you, either. No one named Meg is chatting with you... Guys, if there's a void in your life that you think is being filled online, keep in mind the person doing it has a beer gut and is named Dan, and remember that you're also filling a void in his life. Ladies... well, you don't need any advice, because you don't chat online.''"

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E10 Blink|Blink]] -

{{quote|'''Larry Nightingale''': Me and the guys are trying to work out the other half.

* This was kind of alluded to by Drew Carey on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' once. His line went something like this: "Welcome back to Whose Line Is It Anyway, the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Yep, the points are something you'll never see, just like a ''real'' lesbian in a lesbian chat room."

* Inverted in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Howard and Bernadette had a breakup caused by him having online sex in a Warcraft Game with a female elf. Turns out the person playing the female elf was actually another male.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* For a while, some users playing lady Night Elves in''[[World of Warcraft]]'' got the idea of stripping off their armor and doing the /dance animation on top of the Ironforge mailbox for tips. Doing so was an immediate way to be branded a male gamer.

 

* ''[[Sabrina Online]]'' mentions this quite early.

* On the gaming note, ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', Pip gets into "[[World of Warcraft|Realm of Lorcraft]]", an MMORPG, and starts going on quests with a player in possession of a [[Hot Amazon|hot female avatar]]. Art convinces him that it's probably a "fat, bald man with B.O." on the other end. (Cue the next panel, which shows an actual hot chick(that actually looks almost ''exactly'' like said avatar) on her bed, at the laptop, unsuccessfully searching for Pip's character...)

* Frequently mocked (yet entirely subverted) in ''Enjuhneer''.

* The [[Slice of Life]] webcomic ''Friday y Innak'' explains that both the author Kkatman and her fursona, the eponymous Friday, intentionally chose masculine usernames because "I didn't want anyone knowing I was a girl. Lot of freaks on the internet." Innak, Friday's male room-mate, nervously replies "And now that you're one of them?"

* Also referenced in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/30 this] [[Penny Arcade]] strip.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

** Red Vs. Blue also did this in its "Real Life Vs. Internet" PSA, in a skit with Donut (a gay male character with pink armor) pretending to be the girl and Simmons playing a skeptical guy.

* Deliberately averted in ''[[The Guild]]'', in which there about as many female gamers as there are male ones.

* Inverted in [[Journal Roleplay]]. Female players outnumber the guys by a lot, and among many sources of drama is the community's tendency to view male players as "creepy."

 

* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Teacher of the Year," Tucker and Danny don't believe girls play online games. They're extremely surprised to find out the player Chaos, who routinely kicks their butts, is none other than their friend, Sam(antha).

* On ''[[Futurama]]'', Leela enters a chatroom and hears some nerds boasting about their "success" with women; She announces herself as female, only to have the nerds panic at her presence. Meanwhile, another "female" avatar speaks with an obvious male voice.

** Of course, the chatroom they were in advertised itself as "Filthy," [[All Men Are Perverts|so...]]

** Bender then [[GIRL|disguises himself as a woman]] and starts charging by the minute to talk to him.

{{quote|'''Gimpy''': Whoever did this is a man of skill! A man of cunning!

She Prime logo comes up.

'''Gimpy''': A... A ''girl''? A '''girl'''!? }}

* Kyle from ''[[South Park]]'' plays as female fire mage in WOW in "Make Love Not Warcraft".

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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