But because the internet has changed in innumerable ways since 2005, expanding and accelerating all the while, Poe's Law applies to more and more internet interactions.

Ho! who's within?

Otherkin: The living proof that there should be laws preventing nutjobs from networking, this thriving subculture sprung from Ringer and fantasy role-play Internet communities in the 1990s. Its dysphoric members identify as not fully human, be them Fictionkin (those who identify as fictional characters), Animalkin (identify as animals), Conceptkin (identify as abstract concepts), and Weatherkin (identify as weather systems), some even claiming physical, mental, or spiritual shapeshifting abilities!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:baillie brushkie.