Ulrich’s pronouns is he/him, which means he’s canonically male, and so some of some people still think he’s genderless, while a non-binary character that looks like "man", they definitely call them with male pronouns. Average "R**** fans"
Reverse fans when a character is s trans man (ulrich): well IT doesn’t have a gender so IT isn’t trans
Reverse fans when a character is in fact genderless/non binary (Medpoc, The fool): Actually they must have a gender now we just need to find out
Many cn authors are deleting work from AO3 due to one asshole Dats_L1f3 on Red Note and Douyin who made an app to "rate the fics" with AI scraping with no consent. Said app was a project to impress the school they were applying.
App maker already fleed the platforms.