(August 30, 2023 at 8:20 am)brewer Wrote: I appears to me that the horrible negative posts on the net get them, in some twisted way, the attention from others that they crave.
I can easily believe that is a part of it. When depressed and lonely, even negative attention can be better than no attention or social interaction at all. And if one is self-loathing then there is maybe a masochistic catharsis involved also.