Social media hysteria

[Georgeskitchen]

Seeing all the hysteria on social media about Phil and Holly and demands for their sacking, is all this hysteria over things that are not particularly important (in the grand scheme of things) a particularly British thing or is it similar in other countries?
I know the online media sites tend to stir up a lot of it, using words like "outrage" "crying and shaking ", "fans in tears over soap star quitting " whereas a few years back most people would just give a shrug and carry on
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's got out of hand?

Phrases like that are how they get people to click on the articles. It's always been that way. People won't read boring articles so they have to dramatise them and make them seem far more intense than they are.

Over covid a lot of people have become chronically online, they get a thrill out of 'cancelling' people, it seems to fill a void in their lives.