

Evaporative cooling is a bitch. You have some community about the problems with X, and there’s a range of opinions about how bad X is. Anyone mildly affected won’t post much or stick around. People with intense opinions exaggerate. Whether it’s for comedy or rhetoric, ‘X will be the death of us all!’ chases out even more mild users. Now you have a vicious circle of X haters.
If that’s popular enough to form a meaningful audience, you see careers made, serving that conclusion. Shockingly few of them are grifters. They just posted something honestly critical that the haters really enjoyed, and the likeminded engagement made the author’s brain do the happy chemicals, so now they’re the weekly go-to for obsessively complaining about the evils of X. Still naming any actual problems with X, on par with their original independent criticism… but in the new fire-breathing style that makes even half-true non-issues sound like the worst event in recorded history.
The same can happen for positive attitudes, but the result is less circlejerk, and more… cult. Like that DRSyourGME instance. Or Qanon. When sensible people start toward the exits, that doesn’t mean the party’s over.
To include standing there, menacingly.