This reaction reminds me how introducing features to the less experienced and tech aware userbase may result in... somehow amusing entertaining show. Years ago

This reaction reminds me how introducing features to the less experienced and tech aware userbase may result in... somehow amusing entertaining show. Years ago on fotka.pl (Polish hotornot equivalent) the company tried introducing XMPP support as chat component, doing what facebook later did. In feedback, users flooded forums with worthless threads regarding Jabber, creating this weird native to the site self-propelled meme, where they tried to convince themselves how this feature is somehow... dangerous. The second time I saw this odd behavior happen was when the equivalent of classmates.com in Poland - naszaklasa introduced twitter-like microblogging service called "śledzik" (name comes from diminutive of herring which is śledź and śledzić, to follow sb). Users there reacted in similar way and soon they strongly opposed this feature by doing some form of protest with uploading various "anti" graphics into their photo galleries expressing how they feel about this feature no one ask for. The company behind the site kept microblog up until service ceased its operations in 2021.