Plus, it's pretty liberating to just change? It feels pretty good to remind myself that my online appearance is malleable and that I at least have more control over such things online.
Like, obviously we're going to set plurality aside for a second here and focus on just me just andrea, but I don't know how many people who follow me on here know that I was not a coyote until about a little over a year to a year and a half ago. We should explore! We should change! Nothing is impervious to the passage of time and we are changed for better and worse by the experience of our lives. It's true that some larger traits endure for incredible amounts of time, but the me I was 5, 10, 15 years ago were totally different people, and that's not even counting the transition or anything.
The internet is by nature more ephemeral than we think, and this is the perfect place to shift and bend and find a shape.
I mean, yeah, the nature of the self is far more ephemeral than people give it credit for being, as is the internet. Not only can this be taken advantage of by shifting expressions of the self online, but online spaces can be a shared dream (or sometimes nightmare) of sorts.