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But most people do create fake identities when they're 13, "BigMan69" may trash talk on reddit for 5 years, but then as the person behind it gets older and wiser they can create a new account. AI may suspect your are the same person as "WizzenedOwl19" who started posting shortly after BigMan69 stopped, but it's another hurdle and another layer of plausible deniability

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We need not be lectured on a forum catered to the technologically-fluent person, about what the average layperson does throughout their tenure of online identity. Our actions don't match the ones they took, especially since the only platform that the youth today is incentivized to use fake identities are gaming platforms.

TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Google accounts, Snapchat, etc. are a different story.

It’s not always easy to migrate identities, especially if your identity has built up reputation or trust in a community.

Or if the identity is tied up with a marketplace that you bought your game library from.

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