I don’t want to open what might be a closed can of worms (haven’t RTFT because I can’t be bothered with posters’ back and forths), but I really don’t get the bullying claim. For a number of reasons.
To me, MM is like someone blasting Taylor Swift songs (which actually hurt my ears, they’re so awful to me) at full volume in the middle of Trafalgar Square. Some people will love it. Some will be able to block it out. Some will find it grating and move away without comment. Some will resent that their quiet lunch hours are disturbed and wish it would go away. Some will loathe it and query why it should be played at all in public, decry the lack of artistic merit, resent that other better musicians don’t get such exposure and go on a mission to get it stopped.
What would be really odd is for Taylor Swift to blast her music at full volume in Trafalgar Square, and then complain - and have her army of Swifties support her in complaining - that anyone objecting to such blasting of music is bullying her. No. It’s cause —> effect. Not the other way round. Sure, she can blast her music (hypothetically speaking), but no right comes without responsibility. Such as taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions eg people telling you to stfu because your output is unavoidable and in their faces and they don’t want to be subjected to it and all that the artist stands for (I don’t know much about Taylor swift, I may be stretching the analogy a bit!).
Moreover, bullying on the internet is completely different from bullying irl. I hold unfavourable opinions about MM for my own reasons (explained on an old thread somewhere). I have no idea who other posters on these threads are, nor their reasons for liking/disliking her beyond what I read (and I certainly don’t read it all). I am not in cahoots with anyone. We are just a number of lone voices, each entitled to express themselves. There is no collusion. No grand plan to cancel anyone. No “group”
of “bullies”, just a large number of negative opinion-holders. If it feels like bullying to the recipient, shouldn’t the response be “I wonder why so many different people hold such similar but separate negative views about me, perhaps I’m the common denominator and perhaps I should examine what I’m doing to cause this response if It’s upsetting me?”. It’s quite a leap to go from there to moving the burden of responsibility onto strangers to ensure that they inform themselves of each others’ writings before saying what they themselves want and are allowed to say, in order to spare the feelings of the individual causing all this. (The reality of course, as this note shows, is that she’s not upset. She loves it because any attention is better than no attention and whereas she might prefer favourable attention, she can’t quite make fetch happen - so she’s making her home in the only place she can, which is victimhood and the negative space).
Finally, personally I have no truck with comments about (1) appearances (irrelevant to the content, irrelevant also because it’s fake anyway given how much surgery/enhancement/treatment she’s had) (2) the children; totally off limits, no exceptions.