How Reddit outed me to my very masculine older brother and what happened afterwards.

Last night me and my three friends decided to post on r/roastme for fun. I assumed we'd get a few insults and that'd be it. However, when we woke up this morning, the post had hundreds of comments and thousands of upvotes! It's still the top hot post on r/roastme right now. As the title of the post says, I'm the "homosexual" on the left (btw, I promise I am much more attractive than the picture depicts haha).The post got wayyy more popular than any of us anticipated, and my very masculine step brother said he saw the post on his Reddit front page. So, he posted the link into our family group chat, thinking the homosexuality bit was a joke, laughing about all the insults that were thrown. This put me in very awkward situation, because at that point half of my family knew I was gay and the other half didn't. I've always been the most afraid of telling this brother as he's the oldest and most masculine.What followed was a firestorm of private texts from my family asking who knew at this point and who didn't. Tired of living in a web of secrets and lies, I decided to text everyone else in the chat individually who didn't know about me in order to clear everything up, including my oldest brother.I was very nervous to say the least. But once I told him, I couldn't have been happier with his response. He had a few questions, but then he reminded me of what he told me the summer before I entered my freshman college. He texted me:"Either way, you remember my college advice: you do you but make sure to not care what anyone else thinks"It made me cry. After all of that worrying about how he would feel, he stood by what he told me months earlier. I told him how much it meant to me, and how that really stuck with me throughout college. He didn't know that his piece of advice honestly helped me be who I really am. He figured I just kinda forgot about it once he said it and had no idea I took it to heart.Sorry if this was long or boring, but it was really special to me. To anyone out there who's hesitant about coming out to someone close to them, I'd say just go for it. That, or post a really ugly pic of you and your friends to r/roastme and hope that the creative insults of thousands of strangers will collectively out you to them instead.But seriously, I know my experience is completely anecdotal, but I can assure you that you will be surprised as to the way some people may react. If you need some (probably shitty) advice, feel free to PM me.