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>Today, the mob acts primarily through social media, meaning that the pile-on can come for anybody, at any time, with little to no warning. It should be stated
by panny 5y ago
>Today, the mob acts primarily through social media, meaning that the pile-on can come for anybody, at any time, with little to no warning.
It should be stated that this mob is typically comprised of bot accounts. It's not even a real mob. It's just some government or group who wants to peer pressure you with internet good boy points.
- l0b0 5y agoAny large enough pile-on, whether real or orchestrated, pulls in real people with nothing better to do than being outraged at things they have little to no insight into. The bots are just there until the attention is self-sustaining.
- panny 5y agoSure, that's one possible dynamic. The more I see, the more I believe the empty internet theory though.