It has nothing to do with New Atheism. You will find just as much drama - if not more - in religious communities of all kinds. I think it has more to do with s

It has nothing to do with New Atheism. You will find just as much drama - if not more - in religious communities of all kinds. I think it has more to do with social media culture, which seems perpetually hyped emotionally. You can't release a press release without claiming to be absolutely super excited for you guys about $mildly_interesting_new_thing. You can't run a non-trivial YouTube or TikTok channel if you don't over-emote wildly all the time. [1] IG is full of people who are incredibly #amazed and #grateful and add the hashtags to prove it. I'm currently watching a YT series where some people visit abandoned parts of London tube stations. There's an insane level of constant emoting. It's like children's TV. Everyone is smiling and happy and just fantastic, and everything they see is awesome, amazing, incredible, and absolutely their favourite thing ever. Which is weird when they're mostly just filming dusty old abandoned corridors, some of which have some historical interest. If this is normal for you, you can't say "I really don't like what happened so I'm going to resign" without turning it into a widescreen tentpole weepy drama movie experience. However or whenever this happened it's clearly normalised now. I think we're going to be stuck with it for a while. [1] I've known people who tried to cut down on the emoting and their stats went right down.