I asked a related question about how often you lie, on a daily basis, but I think this is more apropos for today’s general aesthetic.

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    As the President and CEO of a fortune 500, and a neurosurgeon that does rocket surgery as a side project, there are many people relying on me to be an upstanding member of the community at all times.

    In reality, most of the ways I misrepresent myself are to obscure my identity, and mostly it’s by leaving things out.

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    I have no interest in misrepresenting myself, I just try to give away as little as possible while still trying to contribute to the conversation.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I, Dr. Wesker, am a caricature of a real person.

    I am more myself than myself, yet also exaggerated.

    I am an experiment in personality and expression.

    I am craving poutine.

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    As often as l can get away with. The more buIIshit about myself out there, the Iess IikeIy peopIe wiII be abIe to sift through it aII to find anything reaI l might have Iet sIip. Because l’II be honest, l’m not very good at poIicing what l say about myseIf. The next best option is to poIIute anything you might be abIe to gIean about me with mass amounts of misinformation.

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    Not at all, I am what I am and say what I think. I’m not afraid of my ideas being sifted and correlated with my IRL person. There’s nothing about me being revealed on Lemmy that my government hasn’t already known about for decades. I try not to doxx myself but that’s about it.

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    I guess I only obscure little details here and there. I don’t say I like chocolate ice cream, I say I like “certain desserts”. If I were to spill all the details, I would be super recognizable.

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    I’ve been sexually harassed so much online that I never correct people when they misgender me on any sort of party chat, especially with video games. I chose an ambiguous username, talk like a bro, have and naturally have deeper voice which only tends to get deeper on the mic. It’s actually really nice to be able to just play video games and be a human being.

    I also put on corporate speak mask when I’m at work. Some days I let it slip and always regret it.

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    If I ever made someone online believe I’m a happy and optimistic person then I apologize for the misunderstanding.

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    Completely on purpose? Never. Occasionally because of ignorance or a mistake? Probably once a week.