kf makes a lot more sense when you don't model it as stalking and instead model it as citizen-surveillers keeping tabs on the people who push against status quo too much in their existence.
historically, the threat of secret police often only came after someone who had fixated on you eventually found something they could spin and then reported you to the secret police, to get a reward.
now you can just reward that with superficial social validation, and you don't even need a secret police force to report to when SEO means you can, say, tank political careers.
randos deputized to scrutinize everyone around them for dopamine they could get by doing anything fulfilling. Elsewhere, people who don't understand Search brush it off as harmless.
and it's, very interesting to me that it's clear many of them are neurodivergent and busy traumatizing each other based on what they were taught normalcy was. Attacking things they see in each other, in their targets. Like, any of the people who have dived into the forums for recon can attest to this.
It's like a third of it is just the natural extension of ABA-as-written.
Applying aversive stimulus when you act away from their idea of normalcy, even within themselves, because they were taught normal was a specific thing, and diverging from it is shameful. But to keep that act from giving cognitive dissonance, you have to evangelize and apply that "normal" to everyone and everything, or the whole thing comes crashing down.
I don't even think they do that part of it consciously, I think they "learned" these patterns because the schools apply it to you now, what with it being a "proven science" of manipulating autistic, adhd, etc people into thinking normalcy is something worth destroying yourself for, along with an impaired (until you learn it) ability to model other people having their own motivations and drives common in people who are treated like they can't make their own decisions for 12-18 years. especially people described as "high functioning" and "intelligent".
that's kinda the tragedy of the whole thing, really. it doesn't excuse them, but man, what a depressing way to live. They're so busy looking for the cheese that none of them see the mousetrap.
