You know those people who play leapfrog with themselves, assuming the arguments their opponents will make and arguing against those assumptions? Those who speak in memes?
I’m starting to put them into one group and writing them off. I might as well be talking to the same brain dead idiot every time because they’re all so eager to fit in with each other to feel relevant.
People were “following the current narratives” way before the internet, now they just have platforms to display their unoriginal ignorance, which admittedly makes it more commonplace and annoying (but if we could just snap our fingers and make people think, the world would be a fundamentally different place, lol). Maybe they wouldn’t be able to hold these ridiculous opinions for long if they had more “shameful” interactions that others could spectate (IRL or on public videocalls, for instance), but on pseudonymous discussion forums like this one conversations and dissent can be more… challenging.