When it comes to surfing the Internet, you’ve probably come across our friends, the social networks. No matter how old you are, whether you like watching short videos on TikTok, uploading photos on Instagram or posting shit on Twitter, it would be strange if you haven’t been on a social network at some point. But social networks can also be a hotbed of the absolute shit that’s out there on the Internet.
We see it every day with political issues, for example, where supporters of one party or detractors of another insult each other directly and unceremoniously, as if they had known each other all their lives. Of course, the anonymity provided by the Internet or the protection offered by the screen of your PC or cell phone helps a lot. And, as in the political world, radical fans of almost anything in this world can be the worst human garbage you know.
This is the case, for example, of the fan bases of model Hailey Bieber and singer Selena Gomez, made up mostly of teenagers and people who are already combing the occasional gray hair, but who have the same maturity expected of a teenager, or even less. With the only “hate motive” being that both have dated Canadian singer Justin Bieber, fans of one and fans of the other have poured their hatred against the “rival” (sigh), as if they were defending their own lives.
And, of course, social media algorithms like it when people spew bile from their mouths. After Gomez joined TikTok, the most toxic videos from her fan base went viral due to the social network’s signature algorithm, and the shit towards Hailey Bieber just kept getting bigger and bigger. The situation has reached such a point that Gomez herself has asked her fans to stop this campaign of hate and harassment towards Hailey Bieber, who has also begged to be left alone. With little success, since if anything accompanies hatred on the Internet is to be more papist than the Pope.
But not all fanaticism is bad, fortunately. Or, at least, not all of it. Fans of singer Britney Spears mobilized thousands of people around the world in a campaign to end her father’s guardianship. And Taylor Swift fans sued Ticketmaster for anti-competitive practices in their famous scandal over ticket sales for the singer’s latest tour.
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