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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Unlike other fandom sites, [[Archive of Our Own]] permits authors to publish their fic anonymously, and even have [https://archiveofourown.org/collections/anonymous/profile an official collection] (and several unofficial ones) to group them. This is to not confuse with the practice of [https://archiveofourown.org/faq/orphaning orphaning], where the author deletes their profile and disavows their works, making then functionally anonymous for people who find them after the original author abandoned them.
* ''[[The Wotch]]'' by Anne Onymous.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''2048'', a singularly [[Anvilicious]] dystopian novel that could best be described as ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' only much, much worse, attributed to [[George Orwell|Erica Blair]].
* ''[[Primary Colors]]'' by Anonymous. Fifteen years later, ''[[O]]'' by Anonymous.
** Also by Anonymous ''[[A Book With No Name]]''.
* A Prussian nobleman wrote plays under the name J.E. Mand -- ''jemand'' is German for "someone."▼
* ''[[Go Ask Alice]]''... [[Based on a Great Big Lie|allegedly]].
* ''[[The Bride Stripped Bare]]''. Australian Nikki Gemmell eventually revealed her authorship.
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* ''[[Frankenstein]]'', on its initial publication, to hide that the author was a young woman.
* During her lifetime, [[Jane Austen]]'s novels only identified the author with the words "By a Lady".
** Parodying this, [[The Two Ronnies]] serial 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town' was credited to 'Spike Milligan & A Gentleman' (The Gentleman being Ronnie Barker).▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Nearly all creators of the [[Visual Novel]] [[Katawa Shoujo]] use nicknames (e.g. cpl_crud, silentcook, Aura)▼
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* Many of the credits in Mega Man II are aliases, e.g. Inafking, Tom Pon, 2m03cm Man, Yuukichan's Papa, Fish Man)▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
▲* A Prussian nobleman wrote plays under the name J.E. Mand -- ''jemand'' is German for "someone."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Executive Meddling]] makes this a recurring issue in the games industry, where this often occurs involuntarily.
** In the 1970's and early 1980's [[The United States|American]] games industry, many companies refused to do credits as a means to prevent poaching. The website for the [[Atari]] brand has a blog post about this practice [https://atari.com/blogs/atari/why-is-the-identity-of-developers-behind-early-video-games-sometimes-a-mystery here].
** Many [[Japan]]ese companies of the 1980's also refused to allow credits, also to prevent poaching, but [[Up to Eleven]]. A ''Time Extension'' [https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-heres-why-japanese-video-game-companies-often-didnt-credit-their-developers article] notes that the identities of the developers were considered ''company secrets''.
** Still happens as of [[The New Twenties]], amplified that many games are patchable digital downloads, not permanently etched in ROM. As a result, corporations sometimes publish versions of games with employee names [[Orwellian Retcon|absent]] if they leave for another company, as noted by [https://www.ign.com/articles/yakuza-series-on-gog-removes-staff-and-support-studios-from-credits this] ''IGN'' article
▲* Nearly all creators of the [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' use nicknames (e.g. cpl_crud, silentcook, Aura)
▲* Many of the credits in ''[[Mega Man|Mega Man II]]'' are aliases, e.g. Inafking, Tom Pon, 2m03cm Man, Yuukichan's Papa, Fish Man)
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* ''[[The Wotch]]'' by Anne Onymous.
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