It was, hands down, the single most clever and effective use of a technical tool to increase polarization and hostility online I have ever seen. Th

It was, hands down, the single most clever and effective use of a technical tool to increase polarization and hostility online I have ever seen. This seems like a nonsensical assessment at best. Use of the script was voluntary, and GG was an organized mass-harassment campaign premised on polarizing and hateful nonsense. The whole social phenomenon consisted of a distributed wave of hostility. I wound up adapting the script myself at one point to mass-block followers of a YouTube/Instagram celebrity who shares my first name and triggers a neverending stream of namespace collisions. It's a reasonable brute-force hack in an environment that lacks real features for dealing with a large population of griefers.