The problem is that they're both. Lots of them are trolls. It was probably even started by a troll. But there's a lot of people out there who do, genuinely, buy into it. Which is the crazy part.

Almost certainly it was caused by the poisoning itself, imo.

Me: Alright, time to get down the basics of my idea so I can flesh it out further once I've gotten the outline worked out!

Also me: I have been writing for ten minutes and this isn't on par with Shakespeare. Time to crawl in a whole and never write again.

I got stuck in a scroll-loop while trying to go to bed last night... granted, I broke out of it faster than I usually would on Reddit.