Eggs definitely drove a big part of it, especially given how “haha I’m just doing it ironically but also it’s actually good if you give it a chance haha” fits so cleanly into the sort of irony poisoned plausible-deniability-even-from-yourself thing that’s such a seemingly common facet of repression and that defined that circa 2010 heavily queer/repressed queer internet counterculture in a lot of ways.

i haven’t really been interested in the show in almost a decade, but during my time as a fan there was definitely an element of “there’s something magical here that i can’t explain but a few people out of the many i’ve talked to online about it can see it too so i know it’s real somehow 🥲”