You might be surprised sometimes. It's not some one-off thing of kids-will-be-kids. It's organized campaigns where an individual will manipulate a community somewhere into serving their interests.

Like, I could write a guide on how to do it, publish it somewhere, and then share that to 4chan or discord or something. It would be received as very funny by some, and a very small percentage of 4chans millions of users could possibly start attempting it. That small percentage is still in the hundreds or thousands of individuals though. And they're high-energy, passionate, and capable of learning through experience.

4chan takes a very militaristic approach to things sometimes, as a sort of poster child for toxic masculinity. So, they are capable of organizing sometimes. Or at least used to be, my experience was from a lot of years ago, before /b/ died of cancer.

Maybe I'm misreading it, but it seemed like that user was implying there's a 60% chance that all of Hexbear isn't trans, like the whole instance is one great big LARP. I don't have an account, but I've lurked Hexbear every now and then, and I've never seen someone "break character". That would be an incredibly impressive feat if it were true.