{"id":5631,"date":"2025-04-27T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2025-04-27T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:56:18","slug":"the-fake-human-race-rise-of-the-pseudonymous-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5631\/the-fake-human-race-rise-of-the-pseudonymous-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018FAKE\u2019 Human Race: Rise of the Pseudonymous Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-5081921-5081921-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>The purpose of this article is to address the negative impact pseudonymous individuals have within online communities. Pseudonymous individuals have the ability to share controversial personal opinions with minimal repercussions, which enables them to express negativity and unethical behaviours within online communities. This article first explores how these pseudonymous individuals are able to reside within online communities comfortably, then discusses how the act of expressing personal opinions through an alias is morally wrong, using examples from two perspectives of the act, R.U. Sirius, a popular commentor\/writer on Facebook, and Rhegan, a popular TikTok creator with a constant stream of pseudonymous individuals in her comment sections. Through this analysis, I have come to the conclusion that there is more wrong to the actions of pseudonymous individuals than right, and that all pseudonymous individuals should be removed from social media platforms to reduce negativity within online communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5631\/the-fake-human-race-rise-of-the-pseudonymous-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this article is to address the negative impact pseudonymous individuals have within online communities. Pseudonymous individuals have the ability to share controversial personal opinions with minimal repercussions, which enables them to express negativity and unethical behaviours within online communities. This article first explores how these pseudonymous individuals are able to reside within online communities comfortably, then discusses how the act of expressing personal opinions through an alias is morally wrong, using examples from two perspectives of the act, R.U. Sirius, a popular commentor\/writer on Facebook, and Rhegan, a popular TikTok creator with a constant stream of pseudonymous individuals in her comment sections. Through this analysis, I have come to the conclusion that there is more wrong to the actions of pseudonymous individuals than right, and that all pseudonymous individuals should be removed from social media platforms to reduce negativity within online communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1303,1627,1304,1628,1310,1629,1289],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ioa","tag-communities","tag-haters","tag-identity","tag-pseudonymity","tag-social-media","tag-tik-tok","tag-tiktok"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}