Can anyone give any insight as to why so many people want to gang up on the person seen as "the bad one" on social media and then mob them with hateful comments and such? I don't get it. It sounds like petty high school only on a world stage with no consequences for the smear campaigner mob and worse accusations.
Is it to be a part of the crowd or to get attention? Do these people have no conscious?
I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of all these people coming out of the woodwork (some whom we've never met) on social media saying "Oh I knew they were a creep." and their seemingly incessant desire to share

"my experience with xyz person" stories, which by the way are always highly exaggerated or outright lies.
I don't understand the need for people to pile on and lie.
I mean, if I saw something shocking/negative online about a person I knew (either knew online or in real life) I would NEVER feel the need to post my confession like experience about interactions I had with them. It's stupid and I swear it's solely for attention-seeking, it has to be! It is just appalling so much to see how easily someone will exaggerate, take out of context, and outright lie about someone else online and post it all because they are not even thinking that other person is "real" and has a real family with real consequences for what is typed about them. It is absolutely sickening.
I just saw someone else today with a threatening sounding tweet that they too were going to share their experience with the person in question. Wow, just wow. And people seem to gobble it up like it's entertainment! WTF.