Don't get me wrong, everyone's entitled to their opinions 100% no matter how unpopular, crazy, or even uncomfortable or mean-spirited they may seem about a given entity - business, artistic, creative, entertainment, or otherwise. Everyone has a basic right to free speech and venting. If you feel strongly enough about something, then some edgelord's take online shouldn't affect your view of it/them regardless. Just carry on and let them wallow in their hate and negativity. And you can always counter with your own ideas. I do like the internet for being a major, easily and widely accessible tool in the marketplace and battlefield of ideas. But the problem is the internet (and esp social media) gives lots of morons and toxic people a bullhorn too and makes it a major tool for bullying, harassment, threats, demeaning rhetoric, etc.. It's when it devolves into these negative actions on individuals themselves is when I take issue.
Plus there seems to be this desperate attempt by many trying to outdo each other for clout by being as edgy or hyperbolic or outrageous as possible online in order to break from the clutter and get that "attention dopamine" on the internet to give themselves some (often desperately needed) artificial meaning, power, or purpose - which usually doesn't lead to terribly positive things.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident - All men and women created by the, go-you know - you know the thing!" - Joe Biden
