The fact is most very online people like drama to one degree or another, and they just have their own personal limits of what they find acceptable to munch popcorn over, and some refuse to admit they love it. Nobody was worried about the feelings of guys on the bodybuilding forums who couldn't figure out how long a week was. But we all absolutely loved laughing at them for years.
For me personally internet drama is more enjoyable the more divorced I am from it, and the more benign or irrelevant it is. That's why something like r/hobbydrama appealed to me, although occasionally it'd be someone on the very wrong side of a drama trying to get their opinion out there first. But like...in an internet where we're surrounded by having to fight over our identities and safety, it is really fun to find some people arguing for two weeks over whether it was disrespectful for someone to give a collaborative OC sunglasses without permission. And it's a little cheeky in a way because I think all of us at some point in our life have been the dingus in that kind of argument, realizing "god did I really get so invested in arguing about something this fucking stupid", it's the drama likers who don't realize they've also been that dipshit that I worry about.
I can't deny that there is a voyeuristic element to to this kind of thing but that's most of our modern lives. Following a big notable court trial is voyeuristic, reading about true crime cases is voyeuristic...and online we're constantly reading conversations we arent participating in. At the end of the day I think this is just... regular human curiosity.