Something I randomly remembered:
Yeeears ago on birbsite (when it was very difrerent and I was active) I noticed an uptick of weirdly antagonistic or pointless mansplaining replies to my tweets. I realized I had changed my profile picture to a female knight drawing: not a portrait, just a drawing I made for a business card. I swapped to a male character drawing (from my then webcomic)... and it calmed down.
(also haven't had the nasty once anywhere since I've been an eevee).
Yeeears ago on birbsite (when it was very difrerent and I was active) I noticed an uptick of weirdly antagonistic or pointless mansplaining replies to my tweets. I realized I had changed my profile picture to a female knight drawing: not a portrait, just a drawing I made for a business card. I swapped to a male character drawing (from my then webcomic)... and it calmed down.
(also haven't had the nasty once anywhere since I've been an eevee).