The Sanctity of Anonymity

On the magic of posting anon, the state of right wing X and how to build a following.

Posting anonymously is sacred. There is a magical process that takes place when you express yourself freely to people who have no idea who you are. In the world of anons, you’re completely on your own. Your face, name, credentials and job do not matter. All that matters is your ideas, your ability to express them, and your vibe. You earn followers based on how relatable you are and your ability to entertain.

This sacred and magical process is dependent on the fact that no one knows who you are and feeling secure in the fact you will not suffer arbitrary consequences in your personal life for expressing yourself. And those consequences may not necessarily be because you’re saying things that are intolerable to a particular political regime. It may just be because of your tone. Sometimes you’re having a shitty day and need to go off. Or you just want to have fun, fuck around and shitpost. Or maybe you want to spit in the face of orthodoxies that deeply offend you. Maybe your boss told you to put your pronouns in your email signature, you felt pressured to take experimental medicine, you just saw an obese woman wearing a bikini in public, or you feel unsafe in your neighborhood because of progressive policies. It doesn’t matter. You want to post about it. You don’t do it under your identity because people in your life may see a side of you online that you don’t show them in person which could cause unwanted problems for you or it may change how they think about you. This freedom permits you to express yourself as raw and uncut as possible, and that’s when magic can take place.

You should always express yourself online as unfiltered, authentic and truthful as possible as an anon. Because you can. Your only consideration should be not getting banned. Not appeasing other people, making friends, or gaining followers. Posting is a spiritual cleansing mechanism that can reveal to you how you really feel about the world and yourself. If you continuously post from the heart, it may even change how you live your life.

If you’re someone who cares about the truth and expressing yourself authentically then being anonymous gives you the opportunity to truly cook. You can work out unfiltered ideas in real time. You can draft a post and see if it sits well with you or if it causes you to giggle. Or you can build an aesthetic, a general vibe that feels attractive to you. You can then receive feedback in real time and learn if it resonates with people. If it resonates with people or causes them to feel something, they’ll click the like button. If it doesn’t, they won’t. You learn what’s persuasive and attractive and what people don’t respond to. When you’re a big account in particular, you have direct access to the pulse of the masses, in real time. And sometimes you won’t care if people like it. Some posts are just for you.

People don’t follow accounts just for their ideas. They follow accounts if they feel like they know the person behind the account. If they have a sense of your personality. People are people. Charisma matters just as much online as it does offline. This is why the loudest and boldest accounts attract the most followers because they are unabashedly who they are in their posts and people can feel it. Completely anonymously. Smart people can tell who’s a fraud and who isn’t. This is why real posters don’t respect the big “meme accounts”, by the way. Anyone can do that. It’s unimpressive.

People who post with their real name and face, particularly academics and influential facelords like Jordan Peterson, have a deep hostility towards anons because they resent such a raw intellectual meritocracy. His Ph.D and books wouldn’t matter if he was an anon. What would matter about his account are the basics. Can he post? Can he express a complex and unique idea quickly? Can he ratio someone? Is the general vibe of his account appealing? Does he have good account physiognomy? Is he funny? Jordan Peterson can be described as a lot of things, some good and some bad — but funny isn’t one of them. He would be a pedantic wordcel account, at best.

Right Wing X

Nowhere is there higher stakes for posting anonymously than on “right wing X.” That’s because the existing power structures are ran by leftists and the overton window is ultimately determined by them, for now. The consequences could be life-ruining. We’ve seen plenty of people doxxed, fired, and had their life burn to flames for making basic observations about reality.

The terms of acceptable speech are loosening up and expanding to permit more right wing ideas, or less insane ideas, because the left went too far in supporting Hamas. We can thank brave men like

Christopher F. Rufo

for seeing such progress in a tangible way, but there’s still a long way to go.

Many people orbit around RWX simply because most entertainment sucks now. New TV shows suck and most new movies suck. Nothing is funny anymore. At least on RWX, you can find hilarious content. Standup comedians are tepid in comparison.

Many people orbit around RWX for political reasons. They deeply despise the left and the impact their policies have on the world. They’re disgusted with tranny ideology, don’t like feeling pressured to worship certain races, hate feeling unsafe in their neighborhoods and are tired of seeing everything and everyone become uglier. If there is one thing that RWXers have in common, it is a shared reaction to the state of things.

But it’s important to know — RWX is not a political movement. It’s not a cohesive force. It has very little influence. And given RWX has a better relationship with reality, or cares more about the truth than the left, it will inevitably attract autistic people. Autists are argumentative and care deeply about the truth. An autist is not going to blindly submit to inane orthodoxy like leftists do so blindly. Therefore, a lot of contradictory or opposing ideas are going to compete with each other and it is therefore unlikely to ever be a “movement”. The truth is complicated. Most of what you see on the timeline is a dialectic. So the little influence that RWX does have tends to move the overton window closer to the truth. And that’s a very good thing. People with actual power follow many of us. They have the means to change things, and oftentimes they do. So RWX has political utility, but it’s not a movement.

As I said earlier, people are people. And most people need to be told what to do and how to think. Most people don’t have the courage to think for themselves and risk being wrong publicly or even in private. That reality of human nature exists on the right just as much as it does on the left. Even more so on the right, arguably, because they’re posting within the unfamiliar context of opposing a power structure that hates them and they don’t know which direction to move in. Most people want to know the rules of the road and how to move up in a social hierarchy. People are social animals after all. Dissent can be confusing. And many on the right won’t let themselves think certain ideas until they’re given permission to. Many on RWX are not really expressing themselves, but following orders, and find an identity in being told what to do by posters they respect. It indeed better than following the left, but they’re still following.

And that’s fine. Not everyone is able to express themselves in such a raw and authentic way, let alone disagree with the status quo, nor do they feel the need to. Some people don’t like to post at all. Most accounts are lurkers. They oppose the left but are on X solely to learn and be entertained. They’re not there to post. And that’s fine, that’s cozy. The lurkers follow the posters. And not everyone is a poster. Some people want to post, or want to have influence, but they can’t get it. They either do not have the courage to say what they really feel, don’t know how to post well, or simply don’t have the followers to have that kind of influence. And not having influence isn’t necessarily their fault. It’s difficult to build a following, which I’ll get to later.

On RWX there’s a small sector of people who want to be posters but aren’t, and deeply resent the posters for having the attention they wish they had. Very much like communists, they want to destroy those who have more than them. So they sit around and snicker about the posters. They gossip, subtweet, and bitch about posters in group chats for hours. Some of them do it all day. This is a very small part of RWX. But they’re loud and they distract people. They’re a bit like trans people in that way.

These people get so wrapped up in rage about their position in the anonymous hierarchy that they lose respect for anonymity itself and will spread information or rumors about posters, regardless of if it’s true, which is doxxing. By this definition, there are many doxxers on the right. I will not name names.

Regardless, the posters they spread information about are still anonymous, just like you, and their anonymity should be respected. No matter what. It doesn’t matter what they say or how much they aren’t liked. When I see anonymity being disrespected in such a way, I assume the people following doxxers or engaging with doxxers have either moronic judgment or bad intentions and I will not follow them. Ever. You either fully respect anonymity, or you don’t. Ideas can compete as much as they need to, but respecting the bounds of anonymity is the line in the sand. I recently unfollowed around 50 people, with no exceptions, for following a doxxer. It doesn’t matter how much they entertain you — the correct reaction to doxxers is to mute or block them, but never to follow them or engage with them. Not only because you’re putting other people’s lives at risk or giving them the attention they crave, but because they’ll do it to you too.

Good Posting

As I mentioned, not everyone wants to post. Not everyone wants a following. Not everyone wants that kind of attention. But some people want that kind of attention. I do. I love attention. And being able to get your ideas out to people is important if you care about your ideas. Being able to entertain people is fun. But it isn’t easy to build a following. Lets say you just made an account or you have a very small following, it could feel impossible to gain more followers. There’s many ways to attract more people to your account and get engagement without being inauthentic. I’m going to talk about how I learned to do it.