history lesson: /b/ when it was 2d/Random and later Anime/Random was mostly inhabited by tripfriends at the start, they were not however anon.

let me reiterate again, anonymous NEVER MEANT not having a 'name' or a 'persona' it meant being detached from your real life
anonymous culture was not a reaction against tripfriends and people who posted on forums, bc ppl who posted on forums at the 2001-2008 era online were pretty much by all mean anonymous

it was against the myspace culture what would later morph into the 'facebook culture'
people who put their names on, who griefted, who took themselves seriously, who bring up their real life academic achievements in arguments, ppl who constantly talk about their irl and bitch about it, ppl who incessantly facepost, cause interp drama

this was what it was against
and twitter and forums and discord are still outlets for this, its really funny when newfriends out themselves like this bc it shows they never used 4chan before it had like 10 million people on it

the small boards were small communities, every1 knew eachother
even if everyone was anon it was still really obvious who was posting, but you didnt know it was 'mark the guy with 2 kids and a registered sex offender' u just knew he was that desuspammer

oh look its xanon
eventually on boards like /mu/ and shit after the 2014 GG event literally killed 4chan, the tripfriend trolls were overwash by normies (ESPECIALLY ON /mu/) who started tripf//ging and treating it like literal facebook and admitting they were all underage and shit
anyways my point here is, having a 'persona' or an 'aesthetic' or a 'trip' is no different than what 4chan used to be like, what differentiates it is the divide between how your online persona is used

is it used like a 4channer or is it used like a myspacer?
its so offputting when people say stuff like this bc you know they're saying it as some sort of btfo but all they're doing is putting it plain as day they don't even half-comprehend what you're talking about https://twitter.com/LurkerPrima/status/1230616734329008128
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