The other is something that happens to anyone that gets sufficiently well known or anything that gets sufficiently popular: it attracts haters. This is inevitable whether you deserve it or not. You can literally be Mother Teresa and still get haters.
A small percent of a lot of people can still be a lot of people, so when someone’s haters work together, they can attract a lot of attention and make it seem like there’s a big problem, even if like 98% of people, if they knew the truth, would think that whatever’s being complained about has been blown entirely out of proportion. This is the infamous “Twitter mob” and the bad part of the “cancel culture” phenomenon—if there isn’t anyone with actual power who’s willing to say “the mob is wrong and we’re not going to listen” when it actually is wrong and wait for the storm to blow over, it can lead to people being fired or otherwise having their lives ruined that in no way deserved it. And in the worst case, you get “stochastic terrorism”—someone says “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” and you can expect that there’s at least one person in the audience crazy enough to actually try.
The other is something that happens to anyone that gets sufficiently well known or anything that gets sufficiently popular: it attracts haters. This is inevitable whether you deserve it or not. You can literally be Mother Teresa and still get haters.
Tim Ferris and Aella have written about this.
A small percent of a lot of people can still be a lot of people, so when someone’s haters work together, they can attract a lot of attention and make it seem like there’s a big problem, even if like 98% of people, if they knew the truth, would think that whatever’s being complained about has been blown entirely out of proportion. This is the infamous “Twitter mob” and the bad part of the “cancel culture” phenomenon—if there isn’t anyone with actual power who’s willing to say “the mob is wrong and we’re not going to listen” when it actually is wrong and wait for the storm to blow over, it can lead to people being fired or otherwise having their lives ruined that in no way deserved it. And in the worst case, you get “stochastic terrorism”—someone says “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” and you can expect that there’s at least one person in the audience crazy enough to actually try.