memorizingthedigitsofpi

Yes, and those so called rewards are one of the staples of modern social media, so it's basically impossible to run away from them. And since people get rewarded for drama, they're more likely to go after people's private tweets and spread them all over social media. The only way to stay away from that is to adopt a total passive stance, where you simply never show your opinions, and still, someone mind find a way to drag you into the dirt by accusing you of following someone who's "problematic", or liking problematic content, or whatever.

There's this trend in fandom where people will tag their mutuals (every time I see the word oomph I lose a few more brain cells) in a tweet saying something like "you follow this problematic person :/" and then you see a bunch of those mutuals apologizing for it on the replies, like they've made a grave mistake that must be immediately corrected, and my god if that's not tragic, people crawling on their knees to appease the OP lest they be cast out from the circle of The Good Ones. It's also an addicting power trip for the OP, which just reinforces the behavior.

I know I'm dunking on Twitter a lot, lol, but I think Twitter is a good showcase of everything wrong with social media today.