Facedox Hermeticism

Why Anons are Showing Face

This is a Carousel guest piece by artist Bobby Mars

Several prominent anon figures of the online right have recently revealed their faces. Bronze Age Pervert, Delicious Tacos, and Sol Brah, among others, joined the ranks of the facefags, those who dare to post their visage online. Why take this moment to shed years of carefully constructed anonymity in one fell swoop?

Most importantly, note that these anon personas are, as I say, constructed. They’re not particularly well protected—BAP has long been identified as Costin Alamariu, for instance. The function of anonymity for these figures, once they reach a certain level of notoriety, is not so much to protect them from retribution as to amplify their mystique. 

The hidden anonymous figure, the voice from the shadows, is a prominent archetype in western culture. It signals a deliberate and prophetic truth—even more so, a hidden truth. The voice of such a figure is one of esoteric revelation, as they reveal something hidden and forbidden, t…