Weyland
I don’t care for a person’s biological appearance, but care a lot about how they dress and their idiosyncrasies.
Some of it, at least when it’s about the protagonist, is that it’s easier for readers to imagine themselves in their shoes. Which is why, even with drawn fiction, the protagonist has a generic/formulaic appearance.
What communities do you even frequent…? May I suggest that you don’t?
As a Dutch guy in China, my height is brought up a lot, and I know Westerners who moved to Asia because they fetishize the feeling of being taller. I just make jokes that I’m taller in the morning than the evening, or joke that I used to be taller when I was still wearing high heels (for the times that I was able to stand up right and not with my ass on the ground).
Your title might as well say: What’s up with terminally online people and hyper-focusing on minute issues to distract themselves from their bad personalities or lousy socio-economic backgrounds?
So, anyone want to place bets on where they’re going? Russia? China? Back home?
Most people with such opinions just hold their tongue. Imagine the radicalization required to rabidly support such an unmistakably controversial opinion to the point that they’re padding essays.
“Conflict leads to better story writing” for the people that have never heard about introspection.
Meanwhile I’m in China paying a 1/10 of the fake price (out of season tbf)