• heyoheyoheyyyy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    thanks for the background info. I’m old enough to have transitioned before 2012 so I don’t dispute our lack of advocates. I just genuinely had never heard of her prior to Elmo drama

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      that’s understandable, she wasn’t well known outside of electronic music circles, and she was probably most well known because of her voice anyway. She does a very ethereal lispy high pitched child-like voice when she sings and it’s recognizable as her. She notoriously doesn’t do live concerts very often, so she ended up more of a twitter/instagram celebrity for a while