You real identity is suddenly revealed to everyone on the internet, and all deleted posts/comments are un-deleted. How fucked are you?

Meh. My real world would know what my digital world already knows, that I'm much more of a nerd than I portray myself as.

It's not because I purposefully hide it. It's because it's not a topic that is interesting to anyone in my real world circle of friends. I don't have real world friends who want to talk about Linux, and Open Source, and retro-video games, and all of the other stuff that I ramble on about online in forums where the peeps who understand me all hang out.

There's probably some very surprising porn habits in there as well that my real world friends and family would have NO CLUE about, but c'est la vie.

Meh. Only the NSFW stuff I guess, but nothing that I wouldn't tell someone if they really wanted to know.

But I stay off Facebook because I'm not interested in having an online presence or profile, so I guess in the sense of suddenly being thrust into that world at all, not related to the content I've posted just the literal online presence - that would bother me more, and the threat of violence or crime from being more visible like that.

No one would notice or care… 1/10 🙂

I tend to enjoy being devil's advocate on controversial subjects so I'd score a 9/10 fucked through sheer misinterpretation

My real name is so generic, even if I doxxed myself you wouldn't find me anywhere.

Everyone I know IRL already knows my online identity.

Meh. A whole bunch of cringe posts from twenty years ago will show how much I've grown since I was 19. Some more recent arguments I got tired of will rear their ugly heads. But I generally try to be the same person online as offline, and that person isn't particularly controversial, at least around the circles I run in.

But there would be a lot of people who would be in bodily danger.

I spoiled a part of Infinity War back in the day, and I'd expect a 305 lb katana wielding fedora wearer to appear out of the shadows at my door. Those dudes were pissed and drunk me didn't even know I did it until the mod that banned me for a month pointed it out.

Not fucked. Of course I have some cringy stuff on MySpace from when I was in my early teens. But generally speaking, over the last two decades or so I don't post anything I wouldn't be OK with everyone finding out about

I'm not. My real, full name is already on certain web accounts right next to "Tattorack", which is the online handle I use everywhere.

Im not fucked because nobody gives a shit about me. If people actually start looking me up, it'll probably create the most traffic to my art pages I've ever had.

Whether or not I am anonymous does not change how/what I post. I also never delete any so nothing changes regarding that too. Cringe to be acting uncivil because you have a mask.

Noooo it was sooo difficult to find how to delete my Facebook account. With warnings like "people losing Facebook often loose their social life, are you really sure?". And now my nearly empty page is back you say? Cringe.

But I'm not fucked, I try to treat people online like I treat people in real life, like I want people to treat me. I'm not scared of a heated discussion but I prefer to stay civil. So if people want to look me up, that's fine, I make great coffee.

I only have issues with people who do not respect my boundaries so I prefer to keep them out of my life. But my mom already knows where I live, so still no harm done when my address is posted online.

Not very, unless the nazis I'm reminding people that every day is punch one of manage to wheezingly waddle up from the basement and attempt to do something about it despite my genes being more pure norse whitey aryan than they could ever dream of so attempts of me life would just be another proof of my superior intellectual reasoning to their simplistic racism tribalism.

Embarrassed, but not fucked.

Depends on the statute of limitations on drug trafficking I guess.

There's a reason why I post under my real name and never delete anything. Because your scenario has a high probability of really happening one way or another. That way I'm more conscious of the stuff I post.

A woman I know had an anonymous blog where she posted stuff about her kids without mentioning any names or showing any photos in an effort to protect them. My wife, who only knows her from her un-anonymised blog found that other blog and recognised her really quickly.

Not all that much, as I already use my real name. I tend to only post things that I believe in, and I've never really been one to hide my feelings from people.

Ehhh, I would be shunned by 2 or 3 family members, which might be a net benefit. I hope the former Oklahoma governor's daughter doesn't come after me. I'm more scared of that waxen pale nepobaby more than anyone else. She's got the money and time to cause havoc, the others do not.

Ya'll are gonna have to travel pretty fucking far to fight me. Welcome to the Tundra.

The only thing that would change is that people are gonna know I'm a bit less straight than I say that I am... Though I generally live life/post things, knowing it can never be deleted once it's posted on the internet so... Not much would change really.

Let's go mfer. I said some cringy shit on Facebook when I was a teenager but I'll own up to em. Largely, I stand by my opinions, doesn't matter if my name is attached to them or not, I say what I feel and what I feel doesn't change based on whether I have a name tag on or not.

I might find myself suddenly on some governmental lists of some interest, especially considering how vocally I have been speaking out against our incoming government, but other than that? I wear my past with pride. I'll admit when I was wrong and stand by my opinions that still deserve them, and chuckle over some bad takes from the past, but I feel no shame in this arena.

I should be reasonably ok... I think. Sure, there were a few instances where I, uh... let the internet anonymity get to my head, and... used sarcasm. But it's past me, I swear. Reckless acts of a younger man.

Just me? Or everyone, everywhere, all at once?

All that typing doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

I'd be fine. I've always been aware of the tenuous nature of being anonymous online.

doubt something would happen

I'm sure I'd be screwed. Just by the nature of the internet, someone in the various posts would find something that would enrage them enough to hunt me down and throw a cocktail at my house. Even if only one person in a million is insane and bent on revenge, overall I have enough posts that they'd come in contact with it. I'd for sure lose my job, since we have seen it happen on social media sites with folks' real names attached.

Luckily, most of the comments I've made have been on sites that have permanently shut down, so I would escape the worst of my years becoming public knowledge.

Now, if it wasn't just me, I'm sure I'd be lost in the relatively blase nature of my comments.

Did you know you can get someone's address by typing in their email? Fuck data brokers. We need to outlaw their entire business model.

I stand behind everything I've ever said. I've been posting for years with the mindset that what OP is describing will some day be reality. I might not be correct about everything but I've always been honest. I look forward to that day and all the hypocrites being exposed.

Lots of people have written fan-fiction worse than that!

I'll have some explaining to do, but I guess since everyone will have their dirty laundry out in the open, people will get quite more open-minded.

Also, people I care about know everything anyway.

I'll be okay.

Hm, I think I had a problematic username at one point as a dumb teen, but I like to think I'd just be a normal amount of embarassed.

People will probably think I'm the most moderate right winger ever. But I'm really not. I just have hard opinions on things.

I am like this in public and in person. No impact.

Based on real life experiences with having random guys try to hit on me, I'd probably get a lot of guys DMing me.

And the most boring life of some random person. Even if you expose all the details either it will be slightly less than cringe or complete banality.

Who would ever want to read posts of some guy who works 9 to 5 job and does nothing weekends? For some 30 years???

Internet people are weird man.

Eh. I'm basically the same online as in person.

I don't think I've really ever deleted anything that wasn't just a simple mistake (e.g. duplicate post or whatever) so I'm not worried about much there

I guess some people in my life might not realise quite how left wing I am, but I've not really kept it under wraps to anyone that's asked.

I assume I'll probably get targeted more by identity thieves and similar, which ultimately will probably be the biggest thing to fuck me over about the whole situation

Not great. Some family members would either stop talking to me, or double down once they had my address to try to "fix me".

You know I don't really know.

Pretty certain my ex would be upset. My lack of sympathy for the death of that CEO could get me in trouble with my job maybe.

If people I know didn't think of me as a loner weird guy before they would now.

Hell I haven't even posted a witty response to a comment on like a pornhub video or anything.

Im too boring to get fucked :/

Minorly inconvenienced. A lot of comments riddled with typos appear, and I'm vulnerable to normal doxxing. I have a few spicy takes, but nothing that jeopardizes a relationship with anyone I'm not willing to confront about it. Still rather not be doxxed out of principle.

Guessing 2/10. Real name is very common. I've made plenty of shitty and dumb comments over the years, but it would simply be embarrassing and that would be it. I don't hold any important or public positions.

I would hope that all the politicians and celebrities people actually parasocially care about would get all the attention something like this would stir up and compared with how awful so many of them are in public, even the worst posts of mine would hopefully end up pretty tame in comparison to whatever they're up to anonymously.

Meh. Someone might learn some of my naughty preferences, but I don't think anything would ruin me.

I'm 0% fucked but that Something Awful post where Cliff Yablonski referred to me as "Human Testicle" will resurface.

I'm fine with that.

Ah, my username is my legal name and there are pictures of me in my account. My username everywhere is my legal name, cause I think I lack imagination.

So I guess I’m fucked exactly this much, which doesn’t seem like a lot.

I generally get left alone. Everyone worries about their own personal problems enough to have time to bother someone random on the internet.

Edit: if I post my address, someone’s gonna ring my doorbell and scare my birds, so you’re not getting it. I’m in the Portland metro area though.

I really believe the things I say.

I'm pretty good.

Worst case my family finds out I've been talking shit about them behind their back, but they're all a bunch of fuckers except for my brother and even he's kind of iffy.

Other than a couple of questionable porn likes I don't really have anything I would be embarrassed to have publicly known about myself.

I'll finally get my blog back! Also some cringy facebook stuff, but it'll be worth it.

I'm not crazy, we all agreed you are in fact the crazy one. Also MW2 lobbies were a different time...

Im completely fucked, I have said a lot of things that are very critical of the "Israeli" government and occupation (I live under their occupation). Also Bibi isnt exactly kind to critiques, I would probrally be suicided the next day. After being revealed and it being that public id probrally have a few hours to publish a manifesto before a Mossad agent neutralizes me.

Them: "Wow. I can't believe jubilationtcornpone would do something like that."

Me: "Yeah, well that makes two of us. And are you seriously trying to tell me you're JUST NOW hearing about that? You actually missed my compete and total public humiliation? That was like ten years ago."

it's over

Very.

Not very much. Not that I'm proud of what I posted on the internet when I was a teen but it's nothing extreme.

I'm not, it's not a secret. As for deleted comments, they're mostly just stuff I deleted because I forgot to double check a fact and realised I was wrong after posting

Honestly not really. Most of my online accounts are already known by friends and are used by me with that knowledge in mind. The ones that aren't are a bit more personal but not wild enough to actually mess anything up.

I would have no other choice but to kill myself since I vented about a stupid MISdiagnosis of a stupid disorder whose label means literally nothing that took 20 years from me as society only sees that stupid disorder instead of a human being. My work friends will view me as less than the scum on their shoes. My managers will assume I just don't like working because it's not playing video games. Everyone will assume the stupidest things about me instead of just actually talking to me. Because why would they? I'm less than a rat. Literally, rat traps and poison are made to kill the rat painlessly and comfortably. Puppets controlled by that stupid disorder die painfully over several years and "they just need to get over it." I wouldn't be allowed to work or rent an apartment because society thinks I'm an overgrown infant. No 988 caller would take me seriously, in fact everyone will agree that I deserve abuse since the abuse is "helping". No one would believe the diagnosis was a mistake. They'll mistake my ptsd from living on the wrong side of society for that stupid disorder. They'll mistake everything I enjoy for that stupid disorder. Like all the people I cut ties with and completely ditched, they'll mistake me for that stupid disorder.

As far as I know not much but the internet has been around awhile. I mean if it happened to everyone I would be much more boring than I think most. If its literally just me I assume it would be a thing because of the novelty.

Semi

I regularly enter fighting game tournaments under this name, and my face has been on stream several times. While I'd prefer not to keep my full name and identifying info too easy to find, if someone wanted to track me down they probably already could using that.

I don't have anything too embarassing to expose either. My worst crime is arguing with people on the internet way too much, but I don't think anyone's going to have much reason to want to go after me for that.

Well everyone would know that I am batman and losing the cover would fuck me pretty hard

You can already find me from my username and I don't delete things.

You'll also find explicit pictures and a rough idea of where I live and have worked.

I'm not that interesting.

Not very much, I assume there's already some way for my name to be associated with my online identity just due to a slipup at some point or some good social deduction, and I rarely delete things I post anyways (they can be found in the modlog)

I'm the same here as I am everywhere.

Not very much at all. I pretty much have said whatever I wanted to my entire life- as I don’t GAFF what other people think.

Assuming that this would cover all past legal names as well (as I have had a grand total of four, different first and last names): still not a lot.

I have changed a lot since I first started posting things on the web, and I am embarrassed about some of the older stuff that I said before I learned more about certain subjects. But (as far as I can remember), the worst comments I ever made were ones in defence of outlawing abortion, and even those I never posted hate in.

So, given that those few comments are vastly outnumbered by my more recent comments explaining why my previous stance was nonsensical, I would probably have to be more afraid of someone threatening me for being a trans person who advocates for bodily autonomy as a basic and inalienable human right.

Does this include private messages

0%, I post under my real name and I've only deleted comments because of accidental duplicates.