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What a strange website. The article was written in a unique voice, so I wanted to find more from the author to get a better picture of their perspective.

But all bios (that I checked) are dead ends (leading to general social media accounts). There is one employee at the company on LinkedIn.

Are these people real? This is now more interesting to me than the article itself. There are 13 years of content, but I can’t tell much more.



This is to me peak social media in 21st century. Somebody has been curating or authoring content for 13 years, but if they don't have clearly identifiable personalities that you can track down, we ask ourselves if they are real.

In general, I don't care about the people behind the article content. They have their own lives that should be private, and the articles should be able to stand on their own merit.


Many times they are not real people. They are pseudonyms used by an editorial board, all or some of which use the name to publish articles that the board feel may blow back or be controversial. The practice is as old as publishing itself.


The image of "Ryan" in the footer seems to be taken from a photographer's portfolio page: https://headshotcrew.com/studiomcgrath




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