When a toxic rumor starts spreading about you, it has nothing to do with people genuinely believing it. Society wants you to think people are just hateful, gullible, or easily manipulated. Society is wrong! You’re watching a primitive tribal instinct play out in real time. The toxic gossiper fires first & everyone who joins is not looking for truth, but for social unity. If you never understand that, you will hand them your confidence without a fight. That mob is always designed to tear down the strongest person in the room. Psychology calls this the bandwagon effect or collective cowardice. They don’t actually hate you, they’re actually just terrified of being the next target.
Bullying people is so sick! Social media is truly dying for me. Especially Twitter, seeing the way y’all talk about another human makes me so sad. And I can’t fight you all over it either.