real life
the opposite is also true. online Iโ€™m more talkative and confident, IRL Iโ€™m shy as fuck from lifelong trauma and masking. my online me and IRL me might as well be two different people.

Thatโ€™s not the opposite. It just the same thing in a different form. Offline you mask and online you donโ€™t need the mask. Racist do the same exact thing.

The difference is that at their core they are deplorable and you are not. The masking is the shared trait.

yhea, itโ€™s the same unmasking, one is just then being assholes and other is being good.