The psychopathology is very interesting. A personal story. A few years ago I got involved in another online ‘thing’ with many similarities to this current situation. It had nothing to do with celebs or family law but it played out mostly online. I see a lot of crossover here with Alice and Lupine from what I experienced there, which is why I thought I’d share.
Imagine a situation where a deadly virus was combated by Big Pharma developing a vaccine to protect human lives. Then a group of agitators online began trying to stop people using this vaccine. I got involved because 1) I did actually have a small stake in the subject matter and 2) the stupidity emanating from the Other Side was stupendous and I felt inclined to speak up against it.
The group of agitators were basically a mob of FMs with no Queen Bee. They flapped round doing the abuse/lie/bully thing for a while aimed at anyone who spoke in favour of protecting human life. After a while a Queen Bee emerged. The FMs happily thronged around her, doing the whole bowing and scrapping and Yes Ma’am, No Ma’am, 3 bags full Ma’am thing. She lapped it up and grew into a monster. She developed delusions of superior intellect though in truth she’d never completed high school. She developed delusions of being the leader of a team of researchers though she had no experience or qualifications, and her team of researchers amounted to Lupine’s team of statement writers for the court. She too was happy to trash people’s reputations in her echo chamber, blocking those who she had named from defending themselves.
I ended up framed as one of the ‘ringleaders’ on the side of Big Pharma. My name was high on their published list of people who opposed their goal, though there was never a $500 Reward offered for any of us. We all supposedly had multiple sock accounts and I was apparently travelling interstate to eavesdrop at her window at night while holding down a job 1,600km away during the day.
Funnily enough the Queen Bee self published two really poorly written novels in her planned trilogy of quivering members and heaving bosoms, though hers was not in a science fiction universe but rather in a supernatural one which included werewolves.
Not so funnily they eventually decided court action was required. This was pretty astounding to anyone with even grade 10 education but they went through with it and the intermediate judgements were scathing in terms of how poor their case was. They persisted for a while until their Queen Bee suddenly died a week or so after one of the intermediate judgements. They promptly announced that she’d suicided as a result of pressure we’d put on her, though TBF I’ve never found any evidence it was suicide (she had a number of health problems) and she had actually complained once or twice how she’d wanted to drop the whole thing but felt pressured by them to keep going.
So this isn’t my first time watching this sort of shit storm develop and it’s intriguing to see how it develops and wonder why it develops. I thought the first time around it was weird but now I see it seems to be some sort of pattern of behaviour and quite scary to think about.