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.

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.