[Serious] Guys who pretend to be female online, why do you do it?

I've pretended to be a woman on multiple occasions, but the weirdest one was in the Destiny Beta back in 2013. I was just hanging out in the social area on my (pretty attractive) female hunter when I was approached by two male players, it was then I saw they would follow me around and sit with me everywhere I went. Then out of nowhere I got messages from the both of them asking me if I was a "real girl" I answered that I was a 18 year old girl on summer break heading to college soon. I was invited to voice chat but gave the excuse my dog chewed the mic out and I could not talk, surprisingly it worked and they were none the wiser. For almost 2 months I was "Nichole" and usually played games with them considering they were pretty chill and down to earth guys. That was until they finally asked if I was a real girl because one of there friends was actually got catfished out of money by a dude pretending to be a woman, and wasn't having any of it. I then said I was t comfortable talking as I hated my voice. Their friend then harassed me by sending rude messages dick picks (a lot of them) and just being weird. I then told the two guys and they blocked him, that was when I told them I wasn't a chick and that I was in fact a dude. They were actually cool about it! They did asked why I lied and I explained that it was because I thought they would just be another group of thirsty neckbeards. They were slightly take aback by , but in the end I still play games with them to this day and occasionally pick a female character to see if I can get another interesting interaction.

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