Rick: "As an author I can't live anonymously, I have to be using my name, I have to be promoting my work, I have to be talking to my readers, networking with other authors, um, you know, promoting when I'm going to be at conventions and speaking on panels, letting people know when my books are coming out or when they go on sale in an ebook form. (..) I cannot be anonymous, part of my job is the promotion and spreading the word of the work that I do, so I don't have the option to be like these people and hide my name and hide my face and hide who I am."
Such cope.
a) "Unemployed alcoholic" is not a job.
b) If we allow that Rick is an "author", I know for a fact there are novelists who manage to get by without oinking on Xitter all day.
c) Rick should ABSOLUTELY be hiding who he is, not doing so is counterproductive to his supposed goal of selling more books.
d) Rick himself has previously admitted that he is on Twitter to be a ~~political firebrand~~ and his followers don't read his books (as if that wasn't obvious from the miserable engagement his self-promotion tweets get).
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In conclusion, Rick "can't live anonymously" because he is a lolpig with a defective brain, not because he needs to be online to sell books.