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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
I honestly think the internet has raised a lot of people's sense of who they are competitive. So you'll get some teenager in the middle of nowhere feeling crazy envious of some pop star getting attention. People can't identify their peer groups any more and this makes the sort of people who need that more hateful.
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That's a really good point about not being able to id your peer group online (or having those lines blurred). . . I've never thought of it that way and that does go a long way to explaining hypercritical troll behavior.