I was lonely, and guys offered me free gold as a female character. I got too deep into it due to depression and I genuinely hated myself, I found an easy way to get attention from both sides.
Back when I was younger, I used to play some World of Warcraft. I played as a male warrior, but one night when my server was down for maintenance, I hopped on a different server and as a joke tried to make what I thought was the opposite, a female priest. I also gave the character an obnoxiously feminine name.
I ended up liking the priest class way more than warrior, so I stuck with the character. But I found often that when I was in a raid group, raid leaders would hit on me, and when I revealed that I was a guy they would get mad and kick me out of the group. So if I wasn’t playing with players I knew, I would just keep my mouth shut about being a guy.
In the earlier Internet days, sure! I did it because I was genuinely curious what a woman’s online experience was like. And it was super fucking gross. Which is why it’s disappointing that in 2025, it’s still so common for so many men topretend that experiences that are almost universally shared by women don’t exist, because they haven’t experienced it themselves.
When I was a kid back when we used AOL I think I did a few times in chat rooms. I got bored of that real quick and stopped. I was probably just curious about the role reversal and wanted to see how I’d be treated differently.
I don’t pretend to be a girl online, but I have gotten a good handful of messages from random people over the years asking about me or asking if I’m actually the girl in my profile pic (Alina Baraz). Always hate to break the news to them that I’m just some random dude and not a hot musician, but I have to assume that some people think I’m a girl just because my profile pic is a girl.
I’ve never tagged anyone along online and pretended to be a woman but back in the day me and my flatmates would do little things online like set up an OLD profile for a really average looking boring sounding woman just to see the volume of interest we got for it. Note – the volume was absolutely insane and the messages were hilarious.
I’ve always got comments about my eyes being really nice and even that it looks like I’m wearing eyeshadow or mascara or something (I never have) so we fired up Omegle and had the camera right up at my face so all you could see were my eyes and you couldn’t really tell whether I was a man or a woman. The number of dudes who jumped straight in with stuff like “Hey gorgeous, beautiful eyes. Show me the rest of your body.” was fucking ridiculous.
Really kind of hit home some of the shit women have to put up with online.
Played in eve online and noticed different reactions from blokes. Went to low / null sec in a new ship and was podded so fast that had no time to react.
The female alt was given advice, 500,000 isk and left to fly out.
Both joined the same corporation. fem alt was being constantly hit on by 2 horny lads who left nothing to the imagination of their lust filled Fantasyland. Had to reply to them as the gruff male alt for the penny to drop…
A friend in RL mentioned much the same as the above, so went on dating site and made two accounts, Sam and Samantha.
Sam got no interest, Samantha had proposals, dick pictures, sexy meat offers….
Confirmed that most men are bad
I once setup a fake dating profile on Tinder as an average looking woman just to compare the experience after using apps for a while and questioning things. I didn’t catfish anyone, just wanted to see the differences in match rates, message responsiveness, etc. I ultimately stopped the maybe 3 short conversations I had and closed the account after a couple days. The experience was very similar to the first time I decided to put myself out there in Grindr with an actual profile picture: hundreds of responses in a day (that account did not close).
I fear most straight men (I’m bi) have seldom experienced being wanted/desired, and it’s a pity. While women face plenty of negative bias they have to deal with in life, there’s a whole lot of positive bias they take for granted.
I loved playing Halo online but was pretty terrible at it. Nearly nobody was down to help a dude so I made a Pink Master Chief and gave myself a girl like name. I got more help than I could ever hope for. I did end up with a few random dick pics though. My go to response was always “My mom said I can’t date until High School.”
Knew a dude in the military who did this in an effort to extort gifts from an unsuspecting man which he would then re-gift to his girlfriend. Real scumbag- always in trouble and always falling further behind.
I created a female avatar on PUBG…and i spoke to my teammates…so they knew i was a guy.
Well i took a break and returned years later…but all my friends left and honestly…i just didnt talk much if at all…like near zero…
And for the most part people are chill. But some are odd.
First i will break it down to 2 main levels. If i am having a good game or not. Having hit conquerer more than once my game play ranges from “just killing it”…to “flat out dookey”…
The better i play the less people say anything. But you still have the dudes trying to “woo” my avatar. I get a ton of “holy shit chicks can wreck shit” and all variants of that in english, spanish, hindi, and russian!
I could almost write a book about this. Some men are really mysoginistic even when my k/d wrecks theirs and i took highest killest/mvp.
All men are equally thirsty but whats odd is that all of them generally want to befriend my avatar…americans funny enough have a small subset that hates women. They assume you are a shit gamer and are angry if you are or not…if you play a shit game then they fuck with you…if you wreck shit they still talk shit saying its a fluke or they smoked too much or whatever other excuse to keep hating on you…
…and mind you…i am not talking at all. I am either just plying the game as i would normally…somewhere between dominator and dookey…
Also, unless you are a real shit stain, i go out of my way to rez people. Like wtf my dudes…we gotta get better at that.
I keep “not talking” just to hear more shit one way or another…its truly interesting…and if i had more dedication could prolly wrote a book…but its a totally way dudes talk when they think a girl is in the room and its amazing to see it…albeit accidentally.
Ps: some convos were entirely in their native language and pf course dont know what they talked about. My comments were all speaking to the convos that were obvious “flirt with the girl in broken english” and then returning to their native language with their friends.
Also solo players dont talk ever…the only ones that talk are the ones in groups with friends…
I mean seriously there is a study here if anyone wants to start one…lol
This was early 2000s, on XBLGamertags (Xbox Live) or something similar. Thought it’d be funny to be a woman, and it was. I was caught within 2 days, the site owner added me on MSN Messenger (?) and told me that he knew, but I was able to keep it going (?)
I did it during the early internet days and got myself some freebies on Ultima Online, and Ragnarok Online. The thirst during the dial up era was real.
So why? To get free shit because I noticed the power in “Hehe xD”
When i was 14, i went on this chat site and put my username as christina18 and i would just get private messages. I would trick a thirsty guy to pay for my runescape membership. I did it only once though, 7$ scammed.
I’d imagine for money or lacking attention. I of course have no idea how women function (beyond sometimes putting extra letters on their words, but I do that too) so I couldn’t pull this off convincingly.
usually if I ever pick a female avatar it’s bc they’re slimmer and don’t take up as much space on the screen/make monkey brain would rather have to look at a woman for the hours that I’m playing instead of some dude (female avatars also usually have more fun cosmetic options)
All of that to say: I don’t ever try to impersonate a woman, people would just assume, sometimes I just can’t be bothered to correct em if I don’t expect to see them ever again. I have gotten a random gift (in game) once or twice tho
When I was a kid I was really bored, so I changed my name on games like Clash of Clans and this one dragon base building game and would pretend to be a girl on world chat. I’d try to catfish guys and get them to switch to private chat. Catfishing is fun, used to do it on Bumble and Smore too
I really needed the pancake recipe from the women’s prayer breakfast at my grandma’s church, and I wasn’t allowed to join the prayer breakfast because I have a penis. So, I pretended to be a 74 year old woman named Gladys on the church’s online message board. The year was 2004.
I guess this doesn’t count me in, but I enjoy playing as female characters in video games or watching shows where the main character is a girl. It’s interesting to see from their perspective. Also since I was a kid I grew up with a lot of action movies where men were the superheroes, saviors and so on. Now seeing a girl beating the shit out of bad guys (Ellie from TLOU, Lara Croft from Tomb Raider etc, Alice from RE) is kinda hot and awesome. But I never pretend to be a girl in online gaming.
Look… I got bored playing male characters on my 10th playthrough of Skyrim. I thought being a woman would make a nice change for once.
Only on video games do i pick woman characters (sometimes). Most of the time i just stick with male characters because I’m a dude myself. So I by default relate more to male characters.
9 times out of 10. I normally just stick with a male character on video games. But sometimes I just feel like being the woman character for a change.
If you mean on social media… I dont recall myself doing that or having any reason to do so.
Back in like 2014 I did this just to see the sheer number of matches I got on Tinder. I wanted to know what my competition was. What opening lines guys were using. In like 2 days with a basic af profile pic, I had like 80 something swipe rights. Def gave me a new perspective on online dating and how a chick has almost unlimited matches where guys only get a handful of matches.
I used to play this online Flash game called Sissyfight 2000, in which all the avatars were female. I felt weird about the idea of giving my female avatar a male name, so I called her Rosie instead, because it was sort of apt for the colors/skin tone I had picked.
This led to everyone assuming I was a girl, and I just got tired of correcting people eventually.
I wanted to know exactly what girls were getting on dating apps whenever I sent a message that I thought was good.
It’s not like I thought I was Michael B. Jordan or anything, but I knew my humor and my depth and thought I was pretty good. So if the words weren’t being read, there either had to be a lot of guys or there were really good looking dudes for miles.
This is before the confirmation of “yes, girl get thousands of messages all day.”
You get flamed less when people think you are a woman in league. At least that is my experience. I don’t try and pretend to be a woman but my username makes people think I am for some reason. I generally don’t correct them. It does get super weird when someone is trying to flirt or is being vulgar though. Then I typically say I’m a dude lol.
When I played mmos I noticed people would bend over backwards to help out women so I started pretending to be a woman. I went from mostly ignored to having a guild with people offering to carry me through content I couldn’t do yet to help me gear up.
In my experience for every one guy who will get nasty and say make me a sandwich egirl there were a dozen white knights who would jump in to defend me before I could even respond.
Just like others have said… back in 2000 or so I watched my GF play Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast and just get gifted stuff left and right for no reason other than having a female character name (there was no voice chat!). So when she lost interest (pretty quickly) I just picked up her character and ran with it.
I didn’t really pretend to be a woman. I had a tag with the boys (with “the boys” I mean my ESL/ESB team. The matches usually turned out relatively one-sided, obviously) that wasn’t really feminine, but it made fun of the whole e-girl twitch thing back in the day (you know when women streamed on twitch in very revealing clothes and not even playing the games themselves). My name in the game was neither male nor female.
Ppl still thought we were women and got really mad, because they didn’t like losing especially not to women. It was really funny, so we kept the tag while playing public.
it feels nice. I liked having people refer to me as a girl and call me she. I liked being able to act a certain way. I liked the way people treated me. Only thing that sucked was not being able to voice chat. But I fucking loved being a girl on online MMO
Played this MMO in the 90s called NexusTK, my friend convinced me to play a girl because you could teleport to each other if you were married in the game. Eventually I just rolled with it idk why. Certainly didn’t get any special treatment, was just so far into the character and there weren’t any gender changes at the time.
I was dating a woman who wanted to try a FFM threesome, or potentially a FF, but she didn’t really want anything to do with the search process. With her permission we created an online dating profile for her, but I would be the one using it. I’d sort out potential matches, and if something seemed promising then I’d bring it to her.
Despite the profile clearly stating that I was a woman looking for women, I got A LOT of messages from guys. Some who prefaced their messages with “I know you’re looking for a woman, but…” and some who never even bothered with that. It gave me a good perspective on what women deal with on the dating apps. 98% of the messages all read exactly the same, and I knew the guys sending them were most likely full of BS.
I did it on a whim once and kept it up for a while because it was nice not being invisible. People were more proactive about interacting with me, most people were nice, and in general it was just a good experience.
I only stopped because I felt bad when some guy started trying to give me stuff in the game we were playing. Felt scummy because I figured he might have a crush or something.
I did it for the payola version of online Diplomacy. (Yes, the old boardgame.) All text game via email or messenger apps. At the time it was overwhelmingly male. There’s a lot of back and forth during the negotiation phase, so there is a lot of communication. Games can last weeks. I started playing as a female because I noticed other players were more likely to ally with you against a third if they thought you were female. Not because they were hitting on me or anything but because most guys just have a small soft spot in their heart for females in that game and maybe think they are more easily manipulated and less experienced. I never mentioned my gender but I was apparently pretty good at putting a slight feminine twist in my messages and I could tell guys were treating me different.
We did it on IRC back in the day. Name yourself Kim17F and immediately some rando would hit on you. Play around with them and ask for a number to call them at. We’d find some other creeper doing the same and would give them that number. Lolz after that.
I’ve always more identified with women characters than with male characters. Male characters always feel flat because men bottle their emotions up. Women are more expressive so it was always easier for me to relate to them. I did a bit of writing in my 20s, self published a few novels, wrote some fanfics but when i started out writing short stories I would always make the main character male since I identified male at the time and every story the main character ended up evolving into being just like me.
Not with women characters. I could do in depth, variety, compelling, unique characters with women characters. That’s worked quite well for me over the years.
The only time I ever did this, was in college when I had this young lady spread rumors that I was pursuing her when I wasn’t. I confronted her about it and told her to stop, and she got defensive and started pretending as if she didn’t know what I was talking about. I thought it would stop after that confrontation, but it didn’t. I asked around in my friend’s list on facebook if any of my female friends (whom she didn’t know) would be willing to pretend to be my girlfriend and tell her to back off, but none who I asked did. So…go figure – I created a fake female account and got all in her inbox about how she needs to find her own man and leave “mine” alone. After a contentious back and forth, the rumors stopped. I don’t think I ever deleted that account, but I haven’t used it in decades.
I don’t pretend to be a woman, but when I cam just showing ass I find it amusing when men think I’m a chick and ask to see my pussy. It’s even funnier when they get all upset about it
I didn’t intentionally pretend to be a girl. Me and my friends have jokingly called myself “Sweet Sexy”. So when I made an online chess account I used that name. Cause I thought it was funny.
I never thought of the fact that people will assume I am an attractive woman and hit on me. At first I thought “wow the online chess community is so friendly”
Then I put two and two together. And created a new account with a generic name. Not so much of a friendly community anymore.
It was during my runescape years ok?? I wanted free stuff and knew some runescapers would love to give a girl free rune scimmys and a couple k’s. Not proud of it but that’s how it was back then
I created a female profile on a dating site about 20 years ago to see for myself how vile a lot of men really were. Because I had sort of convinced myself that it couldn’t be THAT bad.
It was THAT bad and worse. I received over 100 messages in two days. About 60-70% of them were fucking vile.
So, research. Couldn’t delete that profile quick enough.
Depends on the age. But the younger they are the less inclined they are to know about a woman kitty.
Because at that time for most men. It’s about themselves. They’re more into just getting off.
So they have no understanding of how the V works. They’re lazy about that. The older they get though the more they want to know
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It used to feed my porn addiction. Got my dopamine hit from making guys horny.
To get a free video game here and there
Free gold at world of warcraft when I was a kid.
Trolling a creep in a game that thought I was a woman, give him second thoughts next time he sends weird messages to women
I was lonely, and guys offered me free gold as a female character. I got too deep into it due to depression and I genuinely hated myself, I found an easy way to get attention from both sides.
I have a conspiracy theory that the opposite is more common, but the mods here shut that discussion down every time.
If you read this – check back in a few hours and see for yourself.
To get an idea of what the online dating experience is like for women.
Female characters can have a smaller hit box
Nice try, F.B.I.
I did once on OKCupid just to confirm my suspicion that the man:woman ratio was well over 10:1. Turned out it was closer to 1000:1.
Back when I was younger, I used to play some World of Warcraft. I played as a male warrior, but one night when my server was down for maintenance, I hopped on a different server and as a joke tried to make what I thought was the opposite, a female priest. I also gave the character an obnoxiously feminine name.
I ended up liking the priest class way more than warrior, so I stuck with the character. But I found often that when I was in a raid group, raid leaders would hit on me, and when I revealed that I was a guy they would get mad and kick me out of the group. So if I wasn’t playing with players I knew, I would just keep my mouth shut about being a guy.
I was a dumb teenager
Girls got more compliments and positive interactions on their posts.
Decided that sounded better than getting nothing all the time
It worked
My friend created a fake Facebook profile of a girl and added all the guys we knew in the area.
He gave me the password and I told all the guys to meet me at Starbucks on a certain day. I went also.
Lmaoooo. All the guys showed up looking for the girl whose profile we made and then started to look at each other weird. Hahaha.
We were young and stupid. And bored.
I needed the gp.
Cause im gay
In the earlier Internet days, sure! I did it because I was genuinely curious what a woman’s online experience was like. And it was super fucking gross. Which is why it’s disappointing that in 2025, it’s still so common for so many men topretend that experiences that are almost universally shared by women don’t exist, because they haven’t experienced it themselves.
Haha yeah, I’ve always wondered this too. Probably for fun, curiosity, or just to see how people treat them differently
For free shit in RuneScape.
I have a lot of female friends, and they told me about how despicable men are online.
“Oh come on,” I exclaimed. “There’s no way they’re this bad. You have to be exaggerating.”
So they convinced me to make a profile as a girl to see for myself. It was… eye opening. It was sad, gross, infuriating, and kind of funny.
Broke and needed to pay bills. Got a few hundred out of a couple of guys
I just wanted to feel pretty!!
When I was a kid back when we used AOL I think I did a few times in chat rooms. I got bored of that real quick and stopped. I was probably just curious about the role reversal and wanted to see how I’d be treated differently.
I don’t pretend to be a girl online, but I have gotten a good handful of messages from random people over the years asking about me or asking if I’m actually the girl in my profile pic (Alina Baraz). Always hate to break the news to them that I’m just some random dude and not a hot musician, but I have to assume that some people think I’m a girl just because my profile pic is a girl.
Osrs gold
I did that once in Habbo Hotel ages ago and got tons of free stuff for in my room
I’ve never tagged anyone along online and pretended to be a woman but back in the day me and my flatmates would do little things online like set up an OLD profile for a really average looking boring sounding woman just to see the volume of interest we got for it. Note – the volume was absolutely insane and the messages were hilarious.
I’ve always got comments about my eyes being really nice and even that it looks like I’m wearing eyeshadow or mascara or something (I never have) so we fired up Omegle and had the camera right up at my face so all you could see were my eyes and you couldn’t really tell whether I was a man or a woman. The number of dudes who jumped straight in with stuff like “Hey gorgeous, beautiful eyes. Show me the rest of your body.” was fucking ridiculous.
Really kind of hit home some of the shit women have to put up with online.
I did it on a CB radio once to mess with truckers
Ftee shit… iz was insanely easy even…
Played in eve online and noticed different reactions from blokes. Went to low / null sec in a new ship and was podded so fast that had no time to react.
The female alt was given advice, 500,000 isk and left to fly out.
Both joined the same corporation. fem alt was being constantly hit on by 2 horny lads who left nothing to the imagination of their lust filled Fantasyland. Had to reply to them as the gruff male alt for the penny to drop…
A friend in RL mentioned much the same as the above, so went on dating site and made two accounts, Sam and Samantha.
Sam got no interest, Samantha had proposals, dick pictures, sexy meat offers….
Confirmed that most men are bad
I haven’t ever pretended but the reasoning is obvious: because sad, desperate, pathetic men give you free stuff.
I once setup a fake dating profile on Tinder as an average looking woman just to compare the experience after using apps for a while and questioning things. I didn’t catfish anyone, just wanted to see the differences in match rates, message responsiveness, etc. I ultimately stopped the maybe 3 short conversations I had and closed the account after a couple days. The experience was very similar to the first time I decided to put myself out there in Grindr with an actual profile picture: hundreds of responses in a day (that account did not close).
I fear most straight men (I’m bi) have seldom experienced being wanted/desired, and it’s a pity. While women face plenty of negative bias they have to deal with in life, there’s a whole lot of positive bias they take for granted.
Never pretend but sometimes people presume I am online games and I never correct them. People treat you better in some games and worse in others.
I secretly want to be trans but could never pull off looking like a woman in real life.
I hadn’t realized that I was a man yet
I loved playing Halo online but was pretty terrible at it. Nearly nobody was down to help a dude so I made a Pink Master Chief and gave myself a girl like name. I got more help than I could ever hope for. I did end up with a few random dick pics though. My go to response was always “My mom said I can’t date until High School.”
Knew a dude in the military who did this in an effort to extort gifts from an unsuspecting man which he would then re-gift to his girlfriend. Real scumbag- always in trouble and always falling further behind.
well i did it with my friend when i was like 13 to make fun of old horny dudes. havent done it since.
i know a dude who made few thousand bucks pretending to be a girl on dating sites tho
Well…sorta by accident.
I created a female avatar on PUBG…and i spoke to my teammates…so they knew i was a guy.
Well i took a break and returned years later…but all my friends left and honestly…i just didnt talk much if at all…like near zero…
And for the most part people are chill. But some are odd.
First i will break it down to 2 main levels. If i am having a good game or not. Having hit conquerer more than once my game play ranges from “just killing it”…to “flat out dookey”…
The better i play the less people say anything. But you still have the dudes trying to “woo” my avatar. I get a ton of “holy shit chicks can wreck shit” and all variants of that in english, spanish, hindi, and russian!
I could almost write a book about this. Some men are really mysoginistic even when my k/d wrecks theirs and i took highest killest/mvp.
All men are equally thirsty but whats odd is that all of them generally want to befriend my avatar…americans funny enough have a small subset that hates women. They assume you are a shit gamer and are angry if you are or not…if you play a shit game then they fuck with you…if you wreck shit they still talk shit saying its a fluke or they smoked too much or whatever other excuse to keep hating on you…
…and mind you…i am not talking at all. I am either just plying the game as i would normally…somewhere between dominator and dookey…
Also, unless you are a real shit stain, i go out of my way to rez people. Like wtf my dudes…we gotta get better at that.
I keep “not talking” just to hear more shit one way or another…its truly interesting…and if i had more dedication could prolly wrote a book…but its a totally way dudes talk when they think a girl is in the room and its amazing to see it…albeit accidentally.
Ps: some convos were entirely in their native language and pf course dont know what they talked about. My comments were all speaking to the convos that were obvious “flirt with the girl in broken english” and then returning to their native language with their friends.
Also solo players dont talk ever…the only ones that talk are the ones in groups with friends…
I mean seriously there is a study here if anyone wants to start one…lol
I don’t get it? Why would anyone do this? This is funny as hell.
This was early 2000s, on XBLGamertags (Xbox Live) or something similar. Thought it’d be funny to be a woman, and it was. I was caught within 2 days, the site owner added me on MSN Messenger (?) and told me that he knew, but I was able to keep it going (?)
I did it during the early internet days and got myself some freebies on Ultima Online, and Ragnarok Online. The thirst during the dial up era was real.
So why? To get free shit because I noticed the power in “Hehe xD”
When i was 14, i went on this chat site and put my username as christina18 and i would just get private messages. I would trick a thirsty guy to pay for my runescape membership. I did it only once though, 7$ scammed.
I have at times. Mostly in mmos. People were nicer to me.
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I’d imagine for money or lacking attention. I of course have no idea how women function (beyond sometimes putting extra letters on their words, but I do that too) so I couldn’t pull this off convincingly.
usually if I ever pick a female avatar it’s bc they’re slimmer and don’t take up as much space on the screen/make monkey brain would rather have to look at a woman for the hours that I’m playing instead of some dude (female avatars also usually have more fun cosmetic options)
All of that to say: I don’t ever try to impersonate a woman, people would just assume, sometimes I just can’t be bothered to correct em if I don’t expect to see them ever again. I have gotten a random gift (in game) once or twice tho
I needed some GP in RuneScape lmao
When I was a kid I was really bored, so I changed my name on games like Clash of Clans and this one dragon base building game and would pretend to be a girl on world chat. I’d try to catfish guys and get them to switch to private chat. Catfishing is fun, used to do it on Bumble and Smore too
I really needed the pancake recipe from the women’s prayer breakfast at my grandma’s church, and I wasn’t allowed to join the prayer breakfast because I have a penis. So, I pretended to be a 74 year old woman named Gladys on the church’s online message board. The year was 2004.
I guess this doesn’t count me in, but I enjoy playing as female characters in video games or watching shows where the main character is a girl. It’s interesting to see from their perspective. Also since I was a kid I grew up with a lot of action movies where men were the superheroes, saviors and so on. Now seeing a girl beating the shit out of bad guys (Ellie from TLOU, Lara Croft from Tomb Raider etc, Alice from RE) is kinda hot and awesome. But I never pretend to be a girl in online gaming.
I wanted to see how women were being treated online.
I was 10 years old and aol chat rooms were fun to troll as a kid.
Wait, do you mean to ask, in text in conversation with other people online? Or choosing to be a lady model character.
Get free shit
People treated you better in Priston Tale.
Me and my friends were fucking with a dude sending his dick picks for rates on iFunny back in like 2016.
Attention, validation, wanting to be desired as a human being. The normal stuff, you know
Look… I got bored playing male characters on my 10th playthrough of Skyrim. I thought being a woman would make a nice change for once.
Only on video games do i pick woman characters (sometimes). Most of the time i just stick with male characters because I’m a dude myself. So I by default relate more to male characters.
9 times out of 10. I normally just stick with a male character on video games. But sometimes I just feel like being the woman character for a change.
If you mean on social media… I dont recall myself doing that or having any reason to do so.
Video game female models are usually more aesthetic and people will give you free items or help you grind levels if you pretend good enough.
Back in like 2014 I did this just to see the sheer number of matches I got on Tinder. I wanted to know what my competition was. What opening lines guys were using. In like 2 days with a basic af profile pic, I had like 80 something swipe rights. Def gave me a new perspective on online dating and how a chick has almost unlimited matches where guys only get a handful of matches.
I used to play this online Flash game called Sissyfight 2000, in which all the avatars were female. I felt weird about the idea of giving my female avatar a male name, so I called her Rosie instead, because it was sort of apt for the colors/skin tone I had picked.
This led to everyone assuming I was a girl, and I just got tired of correcting people eventually.
I wanted to know exactly what girls were getting on dating apps whenever I sent a message that I thought was good.
It’s not like I thought I was Michael B. Jordan or anything, but I knew my humor and my depth and thought I was pretty good. So if the words weren’t being read, there either had to be a lot of guys or there were really good looking dudes for miles.
This is before the confirmation of “yes, girl get thousands of messages all day.”
You get flamed less when people think you are a woman in league. At least that is my experience. I don’t try and pretend to be a woman but my username makes people think I am for some reason. I generally don’t correct them. It does get super weird when someone is trying to flirt or is being vulgar though. Then I typically say I’m a dude lol.
People gift you shit in mmos
When I played mmos I noticed people would bend over backwards to help out women so I started pretending to be a woman. I went from mostly ignored to having a guild with people offering to carry me through content I couldn’t do yet to help me gear up.
In my experience for every one guy who will get nasty and say make me a sandwich egirl there were a dozen white knights who would jump in to defend me before I could even respond.
Just like others have said… back in 2000 or so I watched my GF play Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast and just get gifted stuff left and right for no reason other than having a female character name (there was no voice chat!). So when she lost interest (pretty quickly) I just picked up her character and ran with it.
I didn’t really pretend to be a woman. I had a tag with the boys (with “the boys” I mean my ESL/ESB team. The matches usually turned out relatively one-sided, obviously) that wasn’t really feminine, but it made fun of the whole e-girl twitch thing back in the day (you know when women streamed on twitch in very revealing clothes and not even playing the games themselves). My name in the game was neither male nor female.
Ppl still thought we were women and got really mad, because they didn’t like losing especially not to women. It was really funny, so we kept the tag while playing public.
it feels nice. I liked having people refer to me as a girl and call me she. I liked being able to act a certain way. I liked the way people treated me. Only thing that sucked was not being able to voice chat. But I fucking loved being a girl on online MMO
Played this MMO in the 90s called NexusTK, my friend convinced me to play a girl because you could teleport to each other if you were married in the game. Eventually I just rolled with it idk why. Certainly didn’t get any special treatment, was just so far into the character and there weren’t any gender changes at the time.
I was dating a woman who wanted to try a FFM threesome, or potentially a FF, but she didn’t really want anything to do with the search process. With her permission we created an online dating profile for her, but I would be the one using it. I’d sort out potential matches, and if something seemed promising then I’d bring it to her.
Despite the profile clearly stating that I was a woman looking for women, I got A LOT of messages from guys. Some who prefaced their messages with “I know you’re looking for a woman, but…” and some who never even bothered with that. It gave me a good perspective on what women deal with on the dating apps. 98% of the messages all read exactly the same, and I knew the guys sending them were most likely full of BS.
I did it on a whim once and kept it up for a while because it was nice not being invisible. People were more proactive about interacting with me, most people were nice, and in general it was just a good experience.
I only stopped because I felt bad when some guy started trying to give me stuff in the game we were playing. Felt scummy because I figured he might have a crush or something.
I did it for the payola version of online Diplomacy. (Yes, the old boardgame.) All text game via email or messenger apps. At the time it was overwhelmingly male. There’s a lot of back and forth during the negotiation phase, so there is a lot of communication. Games can last weeks. I started playing as a female because I noticed other players were more likely to ally with you against a third if they thought you were female. Not because they were hitting on me or anything but because most guys just have a small soft spot in their heart for females in that game and maybe think they are more easily manipulated and less experienced. I never mentioned my gender but I was apparently pretty good at putting a slight feminine twist in my messages and I could tell guys were treating me different.
We did it on IRC back in the day. Name yourself Kim17F and immediately some rando would hit on you. Play around with them and ask for a number to call them at. We’d find some other creeper doing the same and would give them that number. Lolz after that.
I’ve always more identified with women characters than with male characters. Male characters always feel flat because men bottle their emotions up. Women are more expressive so it was always easier for me to relate to them. I did a bit of writing in my 20s, self published a few novels, wrote some fanfics but when i started out writing short stories I would always make the main character male since I identified male at the time and every story the main character ended up evolving into being just like me.
Not with women characters. I could do in depth, variety, compelling, unique characters with women characters. That’s worked quite well for me over the years.
The only time I ever did this, was in college when I had this young lady spread rumors that I was pursuing her when I wasn’t. I confronted her about it and told her to stop, and she got defensive and started pretending as if she didn’t know what I was talking about. I thought it would stop after that confrontation, but it didn’t. I asked around in my friend’s list on facebook if any of my female friends (whom she didn’t know) would be willing to pretend to be my girlfriend and tell her to back off, but none who I asked did. So…go figure – I created a fake female account and got all in her inbox about how she needs to find her own man and leave “mine” alone. After a contentious back and forth, the rumors stopped. I don’t think I ever deleted that account, but I haven’t used it in decades.
I don’t pretend to be a woman, but when I cam just showing ass I find it amusing when men think I’m a chick and ask to see my pussy. It’s even funnier when they get all upset about it
I didn’t intentionally pretend to be a girl. Me and my friends have jokingly called myself “Sweet Sexy”. So when I made an online chess account I used that name. Cause I thought it was funny.
I never thought of the fact that people will assume I am an attractive woman and hit on me. At first I thought “wow the online chess community is so friendly”
Then I put two and two together. And created a new account with a generic name. Not so much of a friendly community anymore.
Free stuff
It was during my runescape years ok?? I wanted free stuff and knew some runescapers would love to give a girl free rune scimmys and a couple k’s. Not proud of it but that’s how it was back then
I’ve only ever pretended to be Hulk Hogan, she might have been pretending to be a girl not sure
I created a female profile on a dating site about 20 years ago to see for myself how vile a lot of men really were. Because I had sort of convinced myself that it couldn’t be THAT bad.
It was THAT bad and worse. I received over 100 messages in two days. About 60-70% of them were fucking vile.
So, research. Couldn’t delete that profile quick enough.
In some multiplayer games you get a lot of attention (and gifts) as a female player
Depends on the age. But the younger they are the less inclined they are to know about a woman kitty.
Because at that time for most men. It’s about themselves. They’re more into just getting off.
So they have no understanding of how the V works. They’re lazy about that. The older they get though the more they want to know