I had something of a nightmare recently. I was in a high school, which is the epitome of trying to act cool and be accepted. The students were talking about something after class and I ended up voicing the wrong opinion, even though I thought it was a mild one. Then almost suddenly, everyone turned on me. They made snide comments as they faced me one by one. At that point it wasn't about truth, but instead the vain obsession with how one appears or comes off to others.

It was like I was surrounded by crazy narcissists, acting as bullies. Some of them would touch me in unkind ways when each one insulted me. Even my friend in the dream, a short-ish guy named Matt, turned on me. I kept asking him some things and at one point he was semi-serious, so I told him that irony is a cancer. He did ultimately betray me in order to fit in with the mob.

Any place that has lots of immature or young people or elitism can end up like this stupid high school social environment. Guess I was dreaming about this based on thinking about some things, incl. picrel. Twitter/X matches this description. To a lesser degree, I think 4chan is also like that.