I think therapists need to come up with some sort of cattle personality disorder.
its called parasocial relationship
its when someone invests emotional energy on a celebrity or character and sees themselves party as that person
like say for example someone watches maldy's video on being kind to yourself and some of that health guru bullshit as their first short ever
they see this as a point of encouragement and associate what they want to be or do with that person. part of that person's manerisms and speech (insane behaviour, eat my ass) will stick to them as well (this is literally what a meme is, it's mimetism's cousin)
it them becomes easier to agree with other shit he says (like the eve stuff, mr robot, him being a 20 year experience game dev, etc.) because they are already partially identifying as him
then when it turns out that person is a lying narc-y lolcow the parasocial aspect gets attacked 'cos the person's emotional investment means they have to accept one of the two (or both):
- they let themselves be fooled by a lying narc-y lolcow, idiot behaviour dude
stretches (the people on screenshots are shared are probably here)
- in accepting the identity into their own personal framework, they are also partly a lying narc-y lolcow (our good friend myke being a carbon copy maldy dickrider would fall here)
which feels like you're an idiot and few people voluntarily do it (kinda like a lolcow never thinks they're wrong)
source: i am conjecturing by being curious about psychology, and having psych friends i talked about this with. i could be full of shit, but i feel my terrifying genius is on point