dposse never registered. it's possible he made an account on the original freeforum but I'd have to check.
but maybe typing out their ASMB names gives the most vain, like shadowstaarr, a hit when they inevitably google themselves.
He desperately needs a hug but he's also not entitled to one outside of professional therapy, except there are probably ethical prohibitions to therapists giving their patients a physical hug.
At least with Rush Limbaugh and other talk radio shows, the formal radio format made it more obvious that it's an entertainer to an audience, versus a more intimate experience via youtube etc. that much more easily traps isolated people into the paradoxical relationship.