The Sanctity of Anonymity

On the magic of posting anonymously and how to build a following.

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

This sacred process depends on the fact that no one knows who you are. You feel secure in the fact you won’t suffer consequences in your personal life merely for expressing yourself. And you might not even express your true beliefs. Sometimes you’re having a shitty day and need to go off. Sometimes you just want to have fun and shitpost. Or maybe you want to spit in the face of orthodoxies that deeply offend you. Maybe your boss told you to put pronouns in your email signature or you just saw an obese woman wearing a bikini in public. It doesn’t matter. You want to post about it. You don’t post it under your identity because you don’t want people in your real life to look at you differently, lose your job, or harm your reputation. 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 anonymously as unfiltered, authentic and truthful as possible. 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 people do and don’t respond to.

If you’re a big account, you have direct access to the pulse of the masses in real time. And sometimes you won’t care if people like what you say. 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. They’re 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 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.

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.

What distinguishes a good post from a bad post? A good post is either quick, true, new, funny, or earnest. A bad post is either too long, not true, has been said before, isn’t funny or isn’t earnest.

A good post needs to be quick because you’re one of many accounts being scrolling past. You need to grab their attention and you need to do it quickly. Are they going to know what you’re talking about within the first few words? The same applies to dating apps by the way. If you’re DM’ing someone attractive, you’re one of hundreds of people doing it. You need to stand out by any means necessary. If your post is too long or has too much fluff, they’re going to scroll past you. If it’s boring, they’re going to scroll past you. It’s very easy to get scrolled past. People want to know what you want to say and they want to know it quickly. People get bored easily (especially women).

A good post needs to be true because people know what’s bullshit in their bones. It doesn’t mean you need to write a dissertation proving your point either. Speaking the truth quickly is an art form and you get better at it by practicing it. Post the truth as you see it over and over and over again and make your posts shorter and shorter. Get rid of bullshit words and fluff. But people say true things all the time. Are you saying anything new? Are you framing a truth in a way no one has heard before? Is it a unique perspective? If it’s been said before, it won’t grab people, and it won’t get likes.

Which brings me to the most important part about posting — authenticity. Do you really believe what you’re saying? Are you saying it because everyone else is saying it? Because it’s safe to say? Because it’s trendy to say? Why are you posting what you’re posting? Who are you posting for? What’s the intention behind your post? People can feel these things.

It doesn’t mean you need to only follow accounts who are bleeding their heart out. Some of my favorite accounts are egirls who post absolute nonsense throughout the day as it comes to them. It may be nonsense, but it feels authentic, silly, and very in-the-moment. I find it entertaining and real. Also, they’re hot. I like following hot girls. Sorry, closeted homosexuals!

Account physiognomy is extremely real. If I scroll past someone’s page and I get a bad vibe from it, meaning, they just seem like a rotten person, then I’ll sometimes block them. Just based off of gut feeling. That’s how real account physiognomy is. Someone’s timeline is a peek into their soul. And if it’s filled with things they don’t really believe, or someone else has already said, then they’re just another NPC. Or if it’s all negative blackpilling content, it means they’re not funny. Not interesting. Not worth following. Would you want to hang out with them? This is the true litmus test.

And finally — being funny is always good. It always makes everything better. And I cannot teach anyone how to be funny. You either have a lighthearted and carefree attitude towards the world or you don’t. If you have a stick up your ass or take things too seriously, then you’re not funny. If you can’t find humor in the absurdity of life, then you should probably stop taking yourself so seriously. You’re going to die one day and everyone else you know is going to die and it’s up for debate if anything really matters.

You know who’s funny? Donald Trump.

Building a following

“Thanks for all the tips on posting, Med. But I have 5 followers. I have 0 followers. I’m posting into the fucking void here.”

Well, yes. Depending on whether or not you want to post, or if you want people to see what you have to say, it can be an uphill struggle to gain more followers. And how do you get posters to see your account? That’s going to take a little charisma and extroversion on your part. The way to get people to see your account is to reply to them. Yes, you’re gonna have to be a replyguy for a while. And you may need to be bold to stand out to them.

Replying to poster’s posts forces them to see you, and if you can reply to them in a funny and bold that way that grabs their attention, they may check out your account, they may check out your posts, and they may decide to follow you. And if you’re a loyal replyguy then they’re even more likely to check out your account. “Who are they? Oh, I’ve seen them before. What’s he about? What’s she about? Is she hot? Lets give their account a quick scan.”

If you have a small account, it doesn’t make sense to retweet people all the time. When I go to someone’s page and all I see are RT’s, I have no idea what they actually think, and I move on. If you’re a small account, your timeline should be mostly your posts because you’re advertising yourself to bigger accounts. If they like what they see they may RT your posts, which will bring attention to your account. Me, personally, I like to RT but I don’t keep them up all the time. If you like to RT, maybe remove your RTs at the end of the day or in the morning. I still do this. I’m an attention whore. I want more followers. Elon has 168,600,000 followers. The market of minds is very big.

There is much more to say on this but there is one crucial thing to keep in mind — if you aren’t having fun as you’re posting, you’re doing it wrong.