This is a really good answer:

“The authors of the paper assert that we are now in a culture that valorizes victimhood. “The moral status of the victim, at its nadir in honor cultures, has risen to new heights…”

She knew that she could double down on victimhood status by being not only female, but black as well.

We used to stress the cautionary tale of the “boy who cried wolf” to warn of wearing out your welcome. Now our ruling class has taken our growing societal wealth and turned it towards the therapeutic State, and everyone is urged to find a problem the authorities can salve. (I’m thinking here of my time fifteen years ago lobbying at a State legislature. We’d joke in planning sessions about all the groups that seemed to conveniently roll someone in a wheelchair up to a microphone with an ever more desperate plea for added funding to their cause.)

Nobodies do it online when they get deranged. Various problems can cause them to start treating everyone like a friend, and yes one of them is extreme loneliness.

Celebrities do it to make you feel like they’re your friend, and thus buy their kitsch.