“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” — Peter Steiner Peter Steiner's famous 1993 cartoon has become shorthand for the early internet: a place where anonymity made reinvention possible. Three decades later, anonymity hasn’t disappeared, it has changed shape. Today it lives in memes, avatars, burner accounts, Discord servers, crypto communities, and anonymous image boards. It’s also become one of the places where ideas about masculinity, belonging, and identity are negotiated.