This happened back during the Super Bowl "Sweet Victory" controversy, so I waited a while before posting so people's heads could cool down and I could get an unbiased answer.

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Basically, Maroon 5 teased that they would play play "Sweet Victory" during the half time show in honor of Stephen Hillenburg. That turned out to be a lie. r/BikiniBottomTwitter was pretty pissed off about it, with everyone posting memes about their disappointment, but it was all rather humorous and generally fun. That's why I'm on that sub in the first place, I don't care much for Spongebob, but it's funny. Well, I saw a comment saying something to the effect of "I bet the Marroon 5 subreddit is going to get a lot of shit for this." I thought, "You know, they probably are. I wonder what's happening there?"

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So I check out r/Maroon5, and it's just this tiny 750ish subscriber dead fansub. However, there were two posts already on it from Spongebob fans. One of them was an angry troll saying "fuck maroon 5," but the other one was a humorous picture of the Pitchfork Salesman from... whichever episode of Spongebob featured a pitchfork salesman.

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Now, what I expected was mostly posts of the latter sort: teasing, but ultimately good natured meme posts. I decided to post one like it in the name of fake internet points. It said "Don't mind me, I'm just here to watch Spongebob fans burn this place to the ground." My post was third out of what turned out to be hundreds, and I got like 2000 upvotes. However, the ensuing shitstorm was NOT the jokes I was expecting, but mostly variants on "fuck maroon 5." It was uuuuuuugly.

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So my moral quandary is this: was I part of the problem, and if so, how much? I got there before the brigade really became a "brigade," but my post certainly could be viewed as actual encouragement to "burn this place to the ground," and really I knew that it was always possible that people would get mean.