Day from accounting was a 250-pound man who one day drops dead.

And in real life, day from accounting has barely gone to church, has a few friends.

They have to rent a preacher who barely knows him, speaks 10 minutes.

They drop him in an earn in a perpetual cemetery and that's day.

And if online Dave dies, online Dave is Ajax and if Ajax dies, it's a huge deal.

Thousands of people show up for Ajax's funeral.

The rival tribe comes out to fight.

Men and women actually stay home from their day jobs to attend Ajax's funeral.

And as I was watching this, I thought, oh my god, this is what happened on January 6th.

This is exactly what happened on January 6th.

People showed up as their avatars.

They showed up in face paint and first skirts with their own weird weapons.

They missed a day of work.

They stormed the capital and fought a rival army.

They had no longer made the distinction between online life and real life.

I'm John Fabro.

Welcome to Offline.

Hey everyone, my guest this week is Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jennifer Senior.

Last week, Jennifer published a profile of Steve Bannon in the Atlantic.

He granted her a ton of access that included texting her in the middle of the night, even

inviting her to his father's funeral.

And after months in his shadow, the piece she wrote was appropriately unsparing.

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