Does everyone actually hate Onision? A look into peer pressure and mob mentality.
Does everyone actually hate Onision?
A look into peer pressure and mob mentality.
Before going into the actual question of whether or not everyone actually hates James Jackson/Onision, let us define peer pressure and the psychology behind mob mentality.
The dictionary definition of peer pressure is as follows: “Influence from members of one’s peer group.”(Lexico Dictionaries). Just by the definition alone without interpretation or analysis it seems like a very simple concept to understand, right? Understanding a concept having to do with a somewhat simple social phenomenon seems easy enough and one would assume that it’s easy to identify in their own friend groups or in other friend groups. Well that is not the case. In most cases peer pressure affects children, teens and sometimes young adults and can sometimes lead to bullying.
Now, bullying seems like a problem only children and teens deal with, right? Well adults can get bullied too, whether it be in the workplace, over the internet, by their family or friends bullying and bullying and it can happen to anyone anytime. No one is immune to bullying. Getting back to the topic at hand, peer pressure can very much lead to bullying. Peer pressure can happen unintentionally. An example of this is when people that are accused of doing something wrong are made public large groups of people expect everyone to dislike this person. “The influence can have negative effects if a peer group’s bullying behavior encourages others to laugh at someone.”(“Do Friends Ever Bully Friends?”) even if they do not feel the same way about this person. This is clearly shown in many online communities when on the topic of Onision.
Many people see those who support him as less than them because in their eyes Onision is not a good person and should not be supported. Regardless of what anyone has done in the past people have a right to have their own opinions and thoughts about people that are not so great. And by heavily criticizing those who have a different point of view, you are actively peer pressuring someone into bullying another person. Even if it isn’t the intention it still has the same outcome as someone who intends to pressure someone into bullying or disliking someone else because they themselves don’t like that person. Now, due to the scale of this peer pressuring it looks to fall into the category of mob mentality.
Mob mentality is a behavior of a large group that is influenced by around a handful of people. (Polito, Kristen, et al.) Now, I’m not a behavioral psychologist so the definition of mob mentality might not be one hundred percent perfect but that isn’t the point. The point here is that mob mentality is what’s driving this huge movement of hatred towards James. Seeing as people who support James are being bombarded with hate comments and threats it makes sense why so many people hate him.
Now I’m not saying that everyone who hates some is a victim of mob mentality or peer pressure because there are very different reasons why people hate him. But usually people start to hate him because their friends strongly dislike him or because they just want to jump on the bandwagon. Because of these reasons it is hard to calculate the number of people that genuinely dislike him as a person based off of personality traits or behaviors like his attitude. Disliking him for things that cannot be proven without a doubt is something some people do but seeing the amount of people that dislike him for that reason is direct evidence of peer pressure as well as mob mentality. As for the question does everyone actually hate Onision, it’s hard to say because many people have been influenced to dislike him.
“Do Friends Ever Bully Friends?” Questions Answered - National Bullying Prevention Center, www.pacer.org/bullying/resources/questions-answered/peer-pressure.asp.
“Peer Pressure: Meaning of Peer Pressure by Lexico.” Lexico Dictionaries | English, Lexico Dictionaries, www.lexico.com/definition/peer_pressure.
Polito, Kristen, et al. “What Is ‘Mob Mentality?“.” Inpathy Bulletin, 4 Nov. 2019, inpathybulletin.com/what-is-mob-mentality/.
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