#f1nn boy mode

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posted to F1nn's instastory on 4/18/24, posted on the subreddit by mod u/JohnKeiOwO

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2/1/23

i am SO normal about him

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F1nn showing us how he "boy modes" for leaving the house

... we weren't convinced

screenshot of 1/8/23 stream, posted by u/LightningLouise7

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screenshot from F1nn's video about meeting up with Natt, posted by u/AshyWhiteGuy

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another little "reality check" post: eyelashes make a huge difference in how you look!!!

these screen shots are from the 4/11/22 stream, which was the last "boy mode" stream before our current twelve consecutive girl month marathon began! thanks to u/LightningLouise7 for remembering and posting these to the reddit

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I mean, there's not exactly a not-dressed-up version of him to see any more?

(hi, I follow the 'f1nn5ter' tag and saw your post!)

technically, an image of what gets called 'boy mode f1nn' (even tho he is always a guy in terms of gender) gets shown before the start of all of his streams, so regular viewers of his (aka me) have usually seen at least one photo of him not dressed up and with short hair

it's not that he wears dresses or skirts 24/7 now, but f1nn has been getting his nails done and eyelash extensions applied regularly for at least three years now (guestimating) and he's grown his hair out to the length he used to get extensions or wear wigs to achieve, so that never comes off either

he's also changed face shape a fair bit in the past two years, between getting a bit older (he's 23 now) and trying to eat more responsibly compared to his former stereotypical teen gamer boy diet, which along with shaping his eyebrows and still being unable to grow facial hair adds to his more feminine look (compared to him at 20 or so)

he's not trans, but he's mentioned maybe being gnc, and in a recent minecraft video there was a joke about 'back when he was a guy'; he even wore outfits with skirts for two of the three days he was at twitchcon paris this year (a big deal for him, he's usually a joggers-and-tshirts guy if he's out of the house)

also streams are usually where folks grab new photos of him from, and those are what he dresses up for, so it's both that you're more likely to see a photo of him fully dressed up by sheer volume of those screen caps from streams, and also the difference between him being dressed up and not being dressed up is... not exactly all that different anymore

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screenshot from 4/1/23 stream, posted by u/blusau

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F1nn has shared quite a bit of his Brighton trip with us via his insta story! These photos were posted over two days, and for posterity's sake I'll give a bit of context for each photo:

It was a pretty wild ride for us at home; he posted the first "off to Brighton" pic on Tuesday morning (UK time), 3/14/23, then posted his "left or right?" tweet that same evening, as we all speculated on what he might be up too, ranging very shallowly from visiting family to simply being on vacation. He had mentioned on a previous stream that he was planning on collaborating with a "controversial" content creator "soon", but it was very brief and those words are nearly meaningless on the internet, so we were simply rejoicing in being able to run errands and get chores done without worrying about missing a stream.

Wednesday morning, 3/15/23, brought us "Brighton is going well", and the fandom noticed that this room was different than the one he had stayed in on a previous Brighton trip (u/Few_Ferret_4108), but that doesn't tell us much. We were suspicious (because he wanted us to be), but continued making jokes about him being on a "biannual fresh-air-breathing session" (u/DeterritorializedEgg) and being awake at 7 am (u/LightningLouise7) in a bed with actually clean sheets (u/W0gg0).

Next, tragedy strikes! We get "My darn SIM card broke" followed by "At least I still look sick as fuck" the (approximately) afternoon of the same day, and finally "Hunchback of ur moms house haha" because he's a gremlin.

Eight hours later, the first Belle pic dropped on twitter, and the repost of it to the subreddit shot to the top of of the subreddit's most popular posts of all time, (possibly) broke the record for most comments on a post in the subreddit, and hit r/all within about two hours.

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pic from F1nn's instastory on 1/16/23, posted by u/Tweevle

this is what F1nn says he wears out in public, keeping the hat brim pulled low especially

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screenshot from the first omegle video posted 2/6/19, possibly/probably the first time F1nn appeared online dressed up

as a comparison, this is what he looked like in the intro and outro of that same video:

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an absolutely ancient (under 18) photo of F1nn taken by his mom and shared by him on the 4/18/23 stream as evidence of just how much of a stereotypical lad he was growing up

he shared it from his phone via sending it to either the council chat or u/Helen_Croft directly on discord, and then Helen posted it to reddit

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terrible screencap from the 3/18/23 stream taken by me of one of F1nn's tinder profile pics

screencapped because he looks just like my legit horse girl farm friends: grungy pants and tshirt because they'll just get muddy, thick jacket to protect from both cold and spikey hay flakes , hat to keep the sun off your face and your hair from blowing completely away, and hair only down for the photo they're taking for social media before they tie it back to keep the horses from chewing on it

as someone who grew up on a farm, this pic is giving me solid mid fall/early spring, sun hasn't even risen yet, about to put my boots on and go start the day's chores before breakfast, taking a quick pic to flex on my fellow farm friends how dedicated to the farm grind I am vibes

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Happy five year anniversary to F1nn's 30k subscriber video! These two screenshots are from 4:34 and 3:48 respectively; they do have additional context! For the egg one, he was answering the age old question of "which came first", and the second he answered the question "Are you a male?" with "No."

Amazing how the passage of time has granted brand new context to these two moments!

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Welcome back to another F1nn-ventures recap! Like in the Japan trip and Belle collab posts, I'll be presenting not only this week's new photos, but also a bit of the lore and fan reactions to provide context for why TWO posts from the f1nn5ter subreddit hit r/all yesterday!

First, let us return to a time nearly lost to the mists of history: May, 2020.

(I won't be doing a readmore on this post, sorry mobile scrollers!)

Two different gamer bros from two different countries have had the same idea: dress up like egirls and troll people on omegle. One of them is our boy F1nn,:

and the other is self-trained voice actor and professional YouTuber Natt:

In a moment of pure serendipity, they ended up in the same chat room, resulting in this viral clip:

(You can also check out the full version in Natt and F1nn's videos!)

F1nn and Natt went on to become good internet friends, with Natt popping in on F1nn's streams fairly regularly. (Natt also knew CottonTailVA before she met F1nn!) This year, Natt finally had the opportunity to visit the UK, so naturally he and F1nn planned to meet up irl.

Meanwhile, F1nn's chat loves "walking streams", where F1nn would occasionally live stream while walking around in public in "girl mode" as a dono goal. He started doing this at the beginning of the pandemic when it was late at night, so there were rarely people around to see him dressed up. After moving to his first (and current) house and getting yelled at by his friend MeowRiza, a trans woman, about reasonable safety precautions, walking streams were informally removed as a dono goal option.

Chat, of course, didn't give up hope. The idea of having a friend along to act as a body guard was raised, and it was suggested that F1nn go out somewhere safer, and perhaps do a video instead of being live. This topic came up again in F1nn's 2/18/23 stream, at which point everyone knew that Natt would be visiting in May. Natt was hanging out in chat during the stream, so an agreement was reached: F1nn would go on a "date" with Natt in full girl mode in London, IFF chat hit a dono goal of $15,000.00.

Chat smashed the dono goal in under 45 minutes.

(Check out stream timestamps 4:10:00-4:50:35 for the speedrun!)

All of that brings us to the events of this week (so far!).

On 5/18/23, Natt tweeted that he was in the UK, and on 5/20/23 F1nn posted a photo to his instastory of the sign at the Milton Keynes rail station. We knew they'd be meeting up soon, but not exactly when or what, if anything, they'd post about it.

On 5/21/23, Natt tweeted:

As per usual, the tweet was posted to the subreddit by (one of our new stream mods!!!) Barbie_secretstanner (who also posts F1nn's tweets here to tumblr! but I can't seem to @ them bc tumblr sucks sometimes):

I've included a screenshot of the post to show that Barbie indicated that this was a tweet by someone else, and she included a link to the original tweet as per typical subreddit archiving standards.

The reddit post blew up, relatively, because of how much chat has been anticipating F1nn being in girl mode in public, which led to it landing on r/all, where multiple lovely, supportive people apparently thought that someone was genuinely posting a selfie before their first date, as evidenced by comments that complimented F1nn's looks and encouraged him to have a good time. Natt also received some replies on twitter to the effect of, "She (meaning F1nn) looks cute, good luck bro!"

Next, F1nn posted this photo to his instastory:

Along with a short video that included Natt saying hi in his "girl voice" from across the hotel room they were both in. (To which we all said, 👀👀👀.)

This was followed up by F1nn tweeting:

which was posted to the subreddit by u/ECCOBLAST:

to which dudebros on twitter and reddit responded with ESSAYS about feminism, trans people, and dating norms in general, as they all immediately jumped to a diverse number of completely incorrect assumptions.

They said if women wanted equality then this is what they deserved, and gay men shouldn't expect hetero dating norms to apply just because they're pretty, and trans women should expect their dates to "see through" their chosen gender and be treated accordingly, and even that if F1nn was really a dude a birth then yeah, but because trans men are just self-hating cis women the "real" guy (Natt) should have paid the bill. There were even a few well-intentioned folks who said Natt was a shithead for bringing up F1nn's AGAB over his (presumed) actual gender!

The one assumption they had in common was that this was a post about a real date made by someone genuinely complaining about an actual comment made by a random guy that they were now putting on blast on the internet.

This firestorm of opinions was only somewhat calmed by Natt and then F1nn's replies to F1nn's tweet:

Which brings us to today! Nothing new has been posted so far by either of them, although I am typing this up before F1nn's usual posting time. We are anticipating a video to be made and hoping to see Natt on a F1nn stream, but editing takes a while and we have no clue what Natt's overall schedule is while in the UK, so we'll just have to wait and see if we get any more updates!