You ever read a post about your worst friend's problematic fav turning out to be actually problematic? Or a news article about a company you're personally irritated by doing something generally terrible?
How often does the situation later turn out to be More Complicated Than That?
Don't get me wrong, the spread and discussion of bad things being done by ostensibly good actors is necessary to prevent worship and idolization of fallible individuals. But sometimes, in fact often, it'll turn out that callout post was padded with unrelated rumor, the original news source was taken out of context, or whatever the Main Character did today is still bad... but just not quite as bad as people were positing.
Yet this is itself useful to true bad actors looking to wiggle their way out of the consequences of their actions. "It wasn't as bad as you thought, you're all over-reacting, I never said X or did Y."
If you ever read something that makes you have negative opinions to an entity, and then later new evidence comes out that shows the entity still kinda sucks but isn't an actual monster, you gotta recalibrate your rage.
Is the thing you really want to be doing making fun of someone online for being cringe, using the justification of 'they're being problematic'?
If you thought a person said a slur in a drunken rant, and then it turned out they didn't use the slur but still went on a pretty messy public tirade while drunk- those are two different kinds of situations. One is a mask-off moment brought on by addiction, one is just about the addiction itself. Is it fair to be as angry as you would be at the first if it turns out to just be the second?
When a single news story about someone behaving badly comes out, especially on platforms like X, people will take it as a chance to aggregate every dumb moment the person has ever had, every ignorant or silly thing they've done in their entire online life, and turn it all into threads celebrating hate. Then if the core news story, the actually dangerous thing turns out to be bogus... who cares, right? Look at all this other shit that they did! Look at everything otherwise benign or just kinda weird things this person has done: it's just one lie being told. (The one lie that got people to care and pay attention and dunk-en-masse in the first place.)
This isn't about anyone in particular, I'm not subbing any chosts. This is about online behaviors which could easily be replicated on this platform if people aren't willing to call 'bullshit'. And, in the cases where a person you dislike for petty reasons actually doesn't turn out to be truly problematic, recalibrate your reaction.
You don't have to love someone to not stir up a hate mob on them.