This actually popped into my head a week ago or so and I still have no idea how you could be influenced to make such a huge decision based off the fact that someone you sort of know via an online forum doing the same thing.
it's not like I only came out because someone else did
I had my own reasons for doing it, and I didn't
actually have any reasons not to, like pacha said, I was just afraid for some reason. but seeing someone else I knew do it gave me the courage to do it myself. that sounds really cheesy but idk how else to put it