For me the real challenge of being an anon is that the mainstream news cycle is SOOO boring. Yet at the same time it's the only thing 99+% of the world think is actual news. There's really not much of a conversation to be had with people who are willfully asleep—which includes most of the people in my life.

It's almost identical to being addicted to hard drugs and it alienating you from your friends and family. And you're stuck hanging out with other addicts on telegram and anonup. The only difference is that anons happen to have the truth on their side. But other than that there's not much difference from being a hard core drug addict.

I was never an "anon" but I relate to this. I have not wanted "news" since the early 90's but read from various other sources. I would often forget that people do not do this and they are completely unaware. As a result, I tended to just keep things to myself becaues nobody cared.