I'm glad you say so, that is reassuring! I wanted to make it very intentionally uncomfortable. I think making the eyes look dead / animalistic / difficult to read helps alot in making it feel uncanny.

I feel like people forget that the purpose of conversation isn't to convert someone to think exactly like you do. Conversation is a learning tool. There is value in trying to have genuine conversations even if you disagree with someone.

Conversation allows for seeing different perspectives, understanding your own beliefs and others more thoroughly. But when people are obsessed with shutting others down, or just "winning" there is nothing to learn or gain.

"You disagree with the hivemind, you must be ___PHOBIC." Incredible. A community that uses peer pressure, guilt tripping, and fear! Haven't heard that one before. So fucking cult-ish. A healthy community doesn't shut people down, it encourages conversation.

If a community gets on your ass for having any sort of constructive criticism maybe it is a massive red flag. I am too autistic to be brainwashed into a hivemind.

LGBTQ+ community will be like, "people can't choose their sexuality you just have to respect it" until they meet a person who won't specifically date them like. Dude. Come on.

I have seen people say "If you don't date me that means you want [insert identity here] to DIE and you support GENOCIDE" bro. This incel ass nonsense. You are not immune to being a lame ass incel, get over it you will feel happier.

Literally same logic with dating. Maybe a person relates better, feels more comfortable, or simply just prefers it. Why does who someone date have to be some political issue when it shouldn't be at all. It is their business, not yours.

Like it is the same thing with how we choose friendships too. Does not working out as friends mean they hate you? No. Sometimes people just DONT CLICK and that's OK. I usually have friends who have been through some sort of trauma because I click better with them, it doesn't mean I hate others.

"But it might mean they're transphobic / racist / etc.!" or maybe their dating preference is completely separate from their belief system. Maybe the problem isn't with them, its with people trying to force people into dating people they are not attracted to.