I just said I think it was shame because he conspicuously shame spiralled pretty hard about his failed life and explicitly hating all his old work some time after that, and finally withdrew from seeking platforms to tell people how to live their lives and wiped much of his backlog.

And yeah it is dumb gossip stuff. But it's gossip stuff about a clique of people who forcibly took control of lots of things I enjoyed and tried to use it to induct masses of people into their self-righteous cult, destroying the fun of those things in the process, I hated both of those aspects, so it became personal enough to learn about even the petty drama side. I'm all aboard with the idea of not getting bogged down in petty drama, but most things that happen happened because somewhere out there a person wanted them to happen (looming AI dystopia notwithstanding) and realistically, a lot of people are more motivated by petty wants and interpersonal hangups than any rational or moral framework. As much as anyone might want to stay aloof from it all, ignoring it entirely is just asking to be blindsided some day.