I think the difference is in effort or posture. It is easy as fuck to talk shit online. This is totally different in energy from Susan Sontag saying she had never heard of Camille Paglia in a TV interview. You used to have to actually DO something to be catty and now you can just affect unearned superiority and quote tweet. The feigned silence of being "above someone's notice" or the hard work of actually hating are pleasurable. The rest is just high school.
