Ask HN: Is witch hunting on social media becoming normal entertainment?

5 points by koolala ↗ HN

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Some people get into it. This guy writes intelligently about it when he's between his manic and depressed phases:

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/

I appreciate that he faces up to being bipolar rather than being fashionably autistic or pill-seeking ADHD.

It's been normalized already for, idk, a decade or two?

Humans gonna human.

Becoming? It's been that ever since social media was invented, if not before. Entire YouTube channels exist that do nothing but report on random internet drama and whoever the 'main character' is today.

Of course, you could say that's just a niche thing, and that the communities and creators dedicated to this aren't in the mainstream. But it feels like some of them are big enough that they do have at least some level of following among the general public as well, and almost anyone on social media in general sees this sort of drama on a regular basis.