i imagine if you get popular enough, you're just going to stright up get endless hate and stalking, even if you are just a regualr person 

stack_harder

And these minority voices are anonymous or pseudonymous 

Bell_curve

Is it perhaps actually a minority phenomenon, but when you have a few million subs, just on pure statistics, you will get a vocal group of , basically, insane people?

I think it's this.  Social media statistically amplifies fringe voices that most people would never even have encountered prior to social media.  It also makes it easier for these fringe personalities to find each other and thus reaffirm and amplify each other.

AskSN

What do online trolls say about human nature?

> Is it perhaps actually a minority phenomenon, but when you have a few million subs, just on pure statistics, you will get a vocal group of , basically, insane people?

I think it's this.  Social media statistically amplifies fringe voices that most people would never even have encountered prior to social media.  It also makes it easier for these fringe personalities to find each other and thus reaffirm and amplify each other.
