>>12632220>Age gives you authority like faking of having specific jobs with authority does. As a 19yo people online treat you as if your posts have less valueMaybe if you're on Reddit and want to LARP as an FBI agent or something, but nobody really believes anything posted on 4chan unless it's something that seems extremely modest. Only people with no IRL friends and at least a few mental illnesses who are addicted to dumb memes and pornography come frequently to 4chan.
If you try talking about something, use a few strong, reasonable core arguments, and write using proper spelling, punctuation, and good wording, you can easily make others believe that you're a genius. People who rely too much on namedropping for the sake of arguments will usually just come off as well-read schizos.