CritFacts

CritFacts is a team of activists and video essayists, named for the eponymous character, a cartoon fox on the internet, who dives into transphobia in order to dissect it and introduce viewers and followers to anti-trans ideologies.
== Team ==
The team is multiple people, each contributing in various ways from writing scripts to proofreading to sensitivity feedback to voice work and video editing. The originator of the character goes by the handle of Prototype when they need to distinguish between themselves and the character or other members of the team. 
== History ==
The character CritFacts originated on Twitter when in February 2020 Prototype started an account to parody "TERF" (trans exclusionary radical feminism) viewpoints, including in the bio "taking GC (Gender Critical) ideology to its logical conclusions" and ironically exaggerating transphobic narratives in an attempt to reveal what they saw as sexism and transphobia. However, Prototype found it hard to parody TERFs, and after toeing the line of Poe's Law, one attempted parody blew up, forcing Prototype to abandon parody and start engaging sincerely and directly, switching to a profile picture derived from a meme showing Robin Hood from the 1973 animated motion picture, particularly the scene where he is disguised as a woman fortune teller.
Gradually, the character gained moderate notoriety among the trans community on Twitter. In October, the twitter account expressed an interest in starting a channel, and in November, they published their first two videos, "Hi I'm CritFacts" and "What Even Is Trans?"
As of writing, their most-viewed video is "Define Woman", which is notable for being used as a reply for the demand for trans people to define the word womanhood. It is also currently their least well-reviewed video by like to dislike ratio, with 43.5% dislikes.
== Trivia ==
* CritFacts is non-binary and makes a point to keep the AGAB of the character and the first contributor secret so as to make a point that neither sex nor gender determine what ideas and philosophies a person is capable of holding.
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