You can tell a lot about a platform from the reputation of its oldest users. Facebook is notorious for courting the higher age brackets and thus attracting the more close-minded, technologically-incompetent chaos of «old people Facebook.» The anonymity of Reddit allows for users to blend in a little more seamlessly unless they announce themselves. TikTok, meanwhile, goes one step further and makes its users authorities for a niche audience of all ages.

How reality translates online and whether people promote or obscure it has been a hot-button topic for almost as long as internet culture has influenced the mainstream. If anything, it has become even more important in the age where our online experience is dictated by suggestive powers beyond our true control.