Collegium Oculorum :
It's called "Post-Marianism" (named after Late Roman Republic General and Consul Gaius Marius), ostracized online personalities have created an independent economic base away from traditional online revenues. This environment enables a personality and their selected sub-cultures to devolve into toxicity, self-protection and cultural dominance within other peer groups.
So, when an online streamers (ChudTheBuilder, Clavicular, Johnnysomali, Asmondgold, etc.) and social media personalities starts harassing individuals in public with racial slurs, being a public nausance, or spreading misinformation. It is because there exists a layered strategic defense system, their independent revenues from their base, self-protection (a sort of dedicated online troll army) and peer groups form a network to pool their resources to crowdfund legal fees. Consequence immunization. It is a natural outcome of online social media activity. These social media personalities and their in-group have NO obligation to the state, sponsors, or society because they have effectively formed a parallel state within a state.
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