I'll just dump my two cents here since this thread is taking off again.
What is interesting to me, and I think one of the big reasons the thread ever took off in the first place is Bryan insisting he just wants to be anonymous, which is then followed up by tons of posts talking about his involvement in previous internet drama, being friends with internet personalities, hosting past shows etc.
That's the exact opposite of being anonymous, and I think that's why people are so quick to shit on Bryan. You can chat with people online without ever having to reveal who you are. It's something I'd say nearly every user manages to pull off. Hell, you can even take it to the next level and do podcasts or videos or whatever while still being an anonymous figure. Maintaining an anonymous presence online is largely about not getting so invested and dragged into drama that you become part of the story.
That was always the issue with your socks. Yeah, there was a noticeable typing pattern, but it was thrusting yourself back into the drama that was the big identifier, and that's usually when people started acknowledging you. You weren't being called out for just having been discovered, but for being too dramatic. I obviously can't speak for everyone, but if it just happened once in awhile and was a relatively small thing, I don't think people would care. We all sometimes get a little fired up by a cow, and there's no shortage of posts where someone a-logs or does something similar and gets called out/told to chill off etc. The reason those people don't go on to get their own threads is because they can actively take a step back and follow the advice. And it doesn't mean having to drop off the face of the earth or give up on the conversation, it just means getting less personally invested.
The fact that you call so many people involved in petty online drama friends is pretty telling because it shows how invested you are. I'm not saying people online can't ever be friends, but if you're chumming up to people primarily known for getting involved in drama, well, you're not exactly trying to be anonymous because now you're getting dragged into their stuff. If you just chilled out and didn't try and get involved in petty e-drama, whether as a participant or just someone dropping "hot takes" people would just let you sock peacefully. Hell, that's happened before, with people generally waiting to call you out until you do something incredibly hypocritical.
Practice what you preach and actually focus on IRL stuff, whether it is your job, family or whatever. If you know there's someone online you can't follow, whether on KF, social media, videos etc without getting heavily invested, avoid that person. My personal policy is if I think about a cow for more than a few minutes outside of reading their thread I should take a step back. If it ever got to the point where I was talking about having so many enemies and assuming anyone who posted anything bad about me is someone who has some sort of personal grudge, I'd just quit the internet altogether.