Dan Gray is a Washington-based anonymous internet rapper, music producer, and VTuber. His lyrical content tends to lean on what’s been going on in his personal without ever going into naming specific names and places, making his bars as opaque as possible in order to not give too much of his real self away, but making them personal enough to where he himself knows what he’s referring to whether it’s a personal reference or a more cultural one.

The reason behind his anonymity has rooted itself very much into the current state of the Internet and social media on a wide-scale. From government surveillance of social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to more broad observations such as with users sharing so much information and personal details about themselves, it almost gets to the point of genuine discomfort for some. His anonymity as a music artist isn’t just a gimmick, but a genuine statement on what we as a society have allowed the Internet to devolve itself into under the misguided eye of tech oligarchs and their respective corporations.

The real name of Dan Gray, as it currently stands in this age of surveillance, will remain unknown.