>hundreds of ways the internet mob steamrolls over people. There's lots of names that have acquired negative stereotypes before. In my lifetime the name "Mike"

>hundreds of ways the internet mob steamrolls over people. There's lots of names that have acquired negative stereotypes before. In my lifetime the name "Mike" at one point basically meant asshole (not so much anymore) and "Bob" basically meant boring, and "Patel" was a catchall negative for anyone from India. There's even research on some of the nuances of the phenomenon. [1] This isn't an aspect of internet mobs, it's an aspect of human nature, or at least society in general. The Internet may shine a light on our flaws, and provide some new outlets for them, but it doesn't really create new ones, we brought them with us, like settlers from Europe going to the "New World" to escape the plague only to find they brought it with them. [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1996.9713993?journalCode=vsoc20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.1996.97...