@MrsFiddle
It does make you wonder where online bullying starts and light hearted fun ends. You refer to white groups targeting 4 black women and doing research or something on them. It must be difficult to assign the degree of "light hearted fun" at times.
You are SO kind to express this interest.
Michelle Obama being accused of being a man, and of having kidnapped her daughters, is not light hearted fun. So it's an easy demarcation to make.
Likewise, Meghan being accused of fraudulently inserting children into the line of succession, is not light hearted fun. Serena, and Beyonce, being accused of fake pregnancies, and Serena being accused of being a man in drag, again not lighthearted.
I am looking into why some white women (mainly) are so keen to spread these conspiracy theories about these four specific women. Specifically, what is it that makes some (not all) white women hate these black women to the point of accusing them of being criminals and frauds. It's particularly striking that these are women who are, in many ways "firsts".
I am developing a number of theories and one of them is that it may be a scarcity issue: there is a feeling that they "got away" with something desirable to some white women that they don't believe black women also deserve, lots of money, a place in the royal family, tennis trophies, being part of a black presidency, etc etc and that these women have to be "exposed".
It's interesting to me that the one woman who has followed the usual trajectory associated with black women in the public eye, of being a successful musician, gets the least online hate of the three, but the three who have entered worlds considered "white" so tennis, the UK Royal Family, the White House, get a disproportionate amount of online hate.
I have spent a lot of time on various fora to understand it, and that includes Mumsnet, where the Meghan conspiracies have popped up. The difference between this and other social media forums is that the moderation tends to be better, but the attitudes are the same. Hence the strange love affair some posters here have with Thomas Markle and his white children, while fanning flames against Meghan and Doria.
I am also getting the sense that a lot of Meghan haters are isolated, alienated, and rather sad. It's the obsessiveness that gives it away, and the rage. There's research being done by others about how hating public figures is a way of bonding for alienated people. So there is a human side to it, that I want to understand.