Fifth Sage

Fifth Sage is a community member whose identity was appropriated and misused by coordinated trolls in what the archive terms a "porn bombing incident." They appear in the record not through direct participation but as a casualty of the show's intersection with hostile online dynamics—a marker of the vulnerabilities that emerge when intimate community spaces encounter bad-faith actors.

As discussed on stream: Fifth Sage enters the archive through absence and violation rather than presence. During EP.461, as Psyche navigates the emotional labor of preparing for his father's memorial while managing platform harassment, Fifth Sage's impersonated identity becomes evidence of a specific type of cruelty: the weaponization of trusted community names to distribute explicit material and damage reputation. The incident surfaces as the show's backdrop, part of the ambient toxicity that community-oriented spaces must process and survive. Their presence in the record is therefore involuntary—they are named not for what they contributed but for what was done to them using their name.