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Nowadays, the lingering sentiment can only be seen as a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] in [[Image Boards|certain corners of the Internet]] and in people's assumption that anyone they meet online is male unless obviously otherwise. You can still see this to some degree in the gaming community, but that too is fading with time. With the advent of Voice over IP it's pretty obvious who's female (at least physically) as your voice will "give you away". It's still good to keep in mind that some people [[Cassandra Truth|will not take your advice seriously]] and that sometimes the software distorts or changes the voice so that people will question your sex regardless.
 
There are, in fact, certain places where women now dominate the community, such as in [[Fan Fiction]] sites, [[Soap Opera]] boards, [[Face BookFacebook]], ''[[Second Life]]'', [[Live Journal]] and its clones (particularly in [[Journal Roleplay]]) or [[My Space]]. As such, this is mainly a [[Discredited Trope]] these days.
 
See also [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]], [[GIRL]] and [[Cross Player]].
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== Comic ==
* In ''[[Ultimate X Men|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.
 
 
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Matrix (Film)|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.
* Similarly, the protagonist of the movie ''Hackers'' is surprised that fellow hacker Acid Burn is female.
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* On ''[[NCIS]]'', McGee is very taken with a woman he's met in his online gaming program, the one where he's an elf lord. DiNozzo confides to Ziva that it's really ''him,'' messing with "Probie" and trying to teach him a lesson that women online aren't to be trusted. It's then subverted when McGee, tipped off thanks to Ziva, turns the prank around on Tony by [[Pulling the Thread]] and pretending to be getting a little ''too'' serious about the nonexistent woman, to Tony's great consternation.
* Ted in [[How I Met Your Mother]] was a [[GIRL]] playing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf4qTxALRKU WOW]. Also inverted, as at one point he met a Girl In Real Life playing a male character.
* 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.
 
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Sabrina Online (Webcomic)|Sabrina Online]]'' mentions this quite early.
* On the gaming note, ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomicwebcomic)|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...)
* [http://xkcd.com/322/ This] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' addresses this.
* ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'': In the contemporary arc, Arthur and Guinevere first meet when their characters on an MMORPG team up; Arthur initially doubts that Guinevere is really a girl, partly because she's playing a male character but mostly because she also claims that in real life she's not wearing any clothes. (She isn't lying: She's a [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|nudist]].)
** Later, when their MMORPG team all get webcams, it turns out that Tristram is also female (which comes as a surprise to the reader, as well, since in the standard Arthurian tale Sir Tristram is male).
*** Though the big surprise around Tristram being female was actually because she had complained before about her uncle Mark's treatment of his wife Isolde (and she, like Guinevere, played a male character online) as if Isolde was just a trophy for Mark. The other characters thus assumed that Tristram was a guy expressing his frustrated crush on Isolde. Lancelot, as a reflexive homophobe (though he got better about it), definitely took the revelation the worst.
* 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?"
* Two of the characters in ''[[FlintlockesFlintlocke's Guide to Azeroth|Flintlocke Vs. The Horde]]'' [http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-5-talkin-bout-locks/917701p1.html try to] [http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-5-talkin-bout-locks/918405p1.html figure] [http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-5-talkin-bout-locks/918581p1.html out] if Cheri the warlock is really a girl. [http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-6-to-the-barrens/926156p1.html Turns out she is.]
* Also referenced in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/30 this] [[Penny Arcade]] strip.
 
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