Stumbled on someone decrying TikTok "multiplicity kids" on twitter, but not sure how I feel about this thing and there's no wikipedia article which is usually the limit of my research.
On one hand DID and OSDD are real things, though some people say it's a culture specific disorder.
On the other kids having calling themselves "we", claiming to be piloted by Harry Potter characters, real-life serial killer and Minecraft YouTubers seems to silly to not be just good clean fun.
On the third hand is you told someone thirty years ago about gender spectrum, genderfluidity, xenogenders, bi lesbians, autism spectrum, they'll probably think you're insane. Maybe there is a subclinical version of DID, like Asperger's to autism, so to speak? I dunno...
What too much Deleuze does to a MFer :(
By the way with regards to the discussion of social construction, and the emergence of DID as a subject of mental illness discourse, I highly recommend the paper Making Up People by Ian Hacking: https://serendipstudio.org/oneworld/system/files/Hacking_making-up-people.pdf
Haha, I was thinking "what has this MFer been reading, must be Deleuze or something." Imagine my surprise.
On your point about the manufacturing of identities: You may have heard of Jonah Peretti, founder of Buzzfeed. It was posted here before, but before he went into business he was really into critical theory. He wrote this essay on Deleuze, Jameson, and a variety of other big-names. One of its theses is this:
That seems similar to what you're getting at.
What's also so significant about that essay is that Peretti took this theory and capitalized on it through Buzzfeed. It reminds me of the bourgeoisie of the late 19th century who used Marx's Capital as a guide to business.
Here's a short article on Peretti. He seems to have disavowed his previous writings but a part of me wonders if he hasn't adopted some sort of accelerationist ideology.