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But today, I don't have to worry about any of that. There's already a Reddit community of over 3,000 people who share my interest:

Reddit

NSFW, by the way. It may all be a big joke, but you will still see a dragon getting railed by a firetruck.

I know, I know, it's a joke subreddit. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The point I'm trying to make here is this: One of the strengths of the internet is that it unites people from all over the country and world ... which at times is also one of the worst things about it as well. Because along with political advocates, LGBT groups, nerd communities, people who drink beer in the shower while naked (hey, NSFW), and any other innocuous lifestyles like cosplayers and furries, we're also seeing the garbage unions of Nazis, child predators, animal abusers, weird-shaped egg enthusiasts, and a fucking 2,000-strong group devoted to Taylor Swift's armpits:

Reddit

Which somehow forced the dragon-fucking out of top spot on the "weirdest fetish in this article" list.

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This is something we've talked about before with online MRA groups. In the same way that a cult isolates and bubbles people into a false interpretation of reality, some online groups find the equally susceptible and gather them under one obsessive interest. And to keep repeating, it's not that the internet is making them this way, but rather that it's creating a nurturing place where those beliefs can be not only unchallenged but supported. Someone like an anti-vaxxer or Sandy Hook truther would be booed out of an everyday conversation, but online, they are not alone. Online, they have a community to assure them that what they are doing isn't bat-dong wacky-sacks.