What's the deal latelly with subs using "they" instead of "it"?

Pic related (And also weird since canonically Boogiepop is a guy).

Why the recent resurgence of XIX century english?

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Nice subs there, buddy.

It is for things and animals, they is for human beans.

Try calling people it irl

I don't know what you're talking about, but "they" is for plural animate objects, while "it" is for singular inanimates. Mixing them up means being illiterate in two ways.

Actually they didn't start referring to Boogiepop as 'they' until later into the show. Before that they uses 'he'. It was after the doctor episode where she asks Boogie whether he was a man or a woman and he said it's not important.

>it
Who the fuck calls people "it"? Do you say "If someone came by, it would be surprised"? No, you say "if someone came by, they would be surprised."

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"They" has been used for ungendered for quite a while. There's no official ruling, but "it" is definitely rude.

i have never used 'it' in a non rude/non teasing way when describing someone

>there are still people that don't know about singular they
What kind of rock do you live under

My main language doesn't have this kind of issues. Objects in it have male or female pronouns, and when referring to both at the same time, we use male ones.

>subs

>singular they
It just sounds wrong and a try hard way to be inclusive.

This right here
is a teenage newfag

ITT: ESL trying to tell native English speakers what correct English is when they're barely amateurs

English has "it" which is singular gender neutral but it's usually used for objects or animals. Using it for a person will get you weird looks at least, and could offend people. And this has nothing to do with the whole gender garbage going on these days. It was like that before that started. So people started using they for a singular gender neutral pronoun (Look up the history, it's in no way recent, but retards still sometimes call you out on it. They're the same kinds of idiots that in the past were shitting on people for splitting infinitives and other retarded "it's in Latin so it must be good" rules). You can still use he or she but for me (a native English speaker) using those can sound kind of stilted unless the person you're talking to is also aware of the sex/gender of the person you're talking about.

It's been used forever and was certainly used before the inclusivity stuff started.

>It's been used forever and was certainly used before the inclusivity stuff started.
Well fuck, I guess I wasn't exposed to it that much.

Only the first quote is mine, though.
I know, which is why i said "XIX century english" on my original post.

>"They" has been used for ungendered for quite a while.
It's what I learned in school like 20 years ago so I am always surprised when people claim it's a recent thing.

>canonically Boogiepop is a guy
t. I don't know the series

Is this monster worthy to be called "it"?

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It's not exactly common, usually he/she suffices

THE THING

>And also weird since canonically Boogiepop is a guy
I thought they just sounded more male like.
And can Boogiepop really be a guy when they are just a part of Touka?

user is talking out their ass. Boogie literally says he has no gender / doesn't know about genders. Some characters refer to him as "he" because he sounds like a guy, but that's about it.

Are you literally autistic? I can't imagine you using "it" to refer to people in your everyday life without anyone pointing out to you how weird that is. "They" has been the default pronoun when referring to people of unknown gender (most commonly hypothetical contexts) for a lot longer than you've been alive.

Since she is s+he, you can use it for any gender

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Don't mind the OP, it's retarded and a fag.

It's a kino type situation where the character being ambiguous is an important aspect to it. Also Japanese can have neutral pronouns when it wants to.