The Duality of Anon
One cannot help but notice how anons recurrently identify with fictional characters who posses double personalities or some other form of internal split.
Considering how often their posts are centered around dissatisfaction with life, it seems these anons are unable to bring forth their desires and to actualize them through and through. However, they cannot stand still either, for the force of the masses will drag them along. To cope with this, they develop a fake persona to deal with life's deterrents, which they present and enact day after day.
The persona has a drawback though, which anons endure every time they use it. And that is the suffering. The persona is heavy, uptight, scanty, distorted and prickled on the inside, draining the life energy of who yields it, and causing him to suffocate. Thence, their double life is born. And so is their disposition to isolate.
When alone, anons are freed from the persona. The persona that they so vehemently hate, but that allows them to remain alive. And how much do they desire to remain alive? How much have they sacrificed for it? But now they don't have to worry about that. For now they are anon. And now they are free.
This contrast between anon and the persona is what sparks so many bizarre desires that manifest on imageboards. The asphyxiating nature of the persona, and the anxiety that arises when glimpses of the fact that his livelihood depends on it, causes anons to despair. And that despair requires a vehicle to be echoed.
That is how anons find themselves with an urge to pursue the most extreme forms of content they can find. Anything that distracts them from their misery. Anything that blinds them to their doom. Anything that distances them from the persona.
This pursuit puts them further and further from society at large, what decreases the ways by which their desires could actually be fulfilled. And thus, a self perpetuating cycle is created, and the duality of the anon unfolds.