When you think about it, Keffals and all the other Troons are cyborgs. I can see Keffals killing himself if thousands of people weren't affirming his gender identity online. In that sense, he's kept alive by machines.

We really do pose an existential threat to them, but we pose no more of a threat than non-distorted reality. Imagine if they had to have their identity affirmed by people in everyday life. Imagine them just trying to have a casual conversation with old black women about womanhood itself. None of this carries over in a world that is more than still images and camera angles. In the world where we can smell and look at objects in 3D space, they are vulnerable.

We represent organic life. We are a growing culture that occasionally breaks out in places like Twitter and Facebook. We are their infection. They occasionally have to clean house and bleach every nook and cranny, but they can't wipe us out. We have the power of evolution on our side as well. We will are forming stronger and stronger networks every day. Even when one of our appendages are cut off, more grow from each severed part. They can't stop us. Not on our planet.