Anonymity is a seductive costume, especially when it shrouds individual identity. Much of the conversation around opaqueness on the internet is about its uses for malicious intent, like harassment and doxing. But nearly as insidious is when anonymity takes the form of ventriloquism for corporate entities — like peering into an android’s vacant eyes as they tell a joke.
In 2019, Netflix’s main Twitter account announced the cancelation of the critically-acclaimed reboot of Norman Lear’s One Day a Time. It did so in an unusually personal, faux-forthright voice, like an adult telling a child that they would not, in fact, be getting ice cream after dinner.
