[balder1991]

This has become so ridiculous that I sometimes scroll through reels just to witness this happening in real time. Is that a video with a joke about some problem in the country? There you go, 27 comments of people cursing and offending the creator because the real life isn’t exactly the way he/she portrayed it (which is, as a funny video should be, exaggerated) or creating drama for something else entirely that has nothing to do with the video. Then someone will eventually make an offensive comment and create an order of magnitude more hateful comments until shortly it becomes people insulting each other.

You see this in all social networks where people with no common ground eventually cross each other. It feels like everything (even mundane routine stuff) will eventually reach someone who’s offended by that action alone.

In fact I feel like this is what killed Facebook and people who check Twitter replies admit they always leave the app feeling angry. At least with TikTok and Reels the comments are hidden by default, so you have to make an explicit action to see the angry comments yelling at each other.

Reddit doesn’t seem to have that problem except in the popular subreddits because the smaller communities settle for an opinion and downvote dissidents.