The Ivan specific threads on CF, assuming they happen as
@douglasbader described, remind me of something I read a month ago. One of the worst things about the internet is it allows people to find others like themselves. This was in the context of otherkins and demi gender type crap, but it holds here.
Before, if you told your neighbor or brother or whoever that you were going to try and find the identity and potentially harm the professional career of some dude that's
not even specifically trolling you, they'd tell you to quit being a fucking weirdo. Now, weirdos in Ames and Ankeny and Corning and anywhere else they find themselves accosted can have an online community where everyone finds this normal.