Hold on and pretend it's a plan

That's an interesting way to look at it, and certainly makes sense. What I find interesting about this take is the implicit assumption made by those pursuing this route to social approval that it is somehow easier to become popular/well-liked/"in" if you remove the physical and have to rely solely on your intelligence, wittiness, and general ability with written communication. One of the worst writers I've ever known rose to position of extraordinary prominence in the Bronze (and we all know who I mean) whereas there were others (Bruddah Max, anyone?) who were fantastically witty, clever writers and never really caught on. I'm sure we can all relate to meeting people in RL we had rather liked digitally and discovering they weren't as all that as we'd thought, and vice versa. It would therefore seem to me that if you're going to pursue cyberpopularity as an antidote to RL social insecurity, you should stick to the cyber and avoid meatspace as much as possible, yet that's not what Ms.Scribe did. She was confident enough to reach beyond the digital, which begs the question (again) of why she did it in the first place. I find the whole thing rather remarkable.