The man's presence reminded Golam that avatar-invisibility was popular among a certain sect of reality hackers that referred to themselves as The Tribe of Not There. They had created a program that essentially made their presence felt but unaccounted for. Some estimates had put this estranged silent majority of anti-imagists in the millions. Golam himself had tried to become an anti-imagist by way of an active voluntary simplicity that would also keep him out of the magnetic-like pull of the electrosphere and its total dependency on digicash paracurrencies -- but this part of his life was short-lived and once he met Cynthia, her energy and devotion to being a part of the so-called Real World kept him tuned to the daily grinder.