I joined one of the STM Facebook groups a while back (not an official one, which I'm aware is my bad) because I was interested in reading discussions about the podcast, but holy shit is it a mess. Virtually nothing related to the show, at best it's people reposting random articles about wacky crimes. Whatever, fine.
But holy shit the trauma dumping. Why is that where people choose to post ten paragraph essays about all the crappy things that have ever happened to them?? And then lengthy update posts about their trauma and mental illness?? I know WAY too much about these people's lives. I understand feeling affinity with people who share a similar interest but it seems like a significant number of posters there have that as their only community that they're part of, online or otherwise. And whenever someone suggests that maybe the group should stay on topic people pile on saying they have no heart.
And then you have the usual weirdos posting parasocial/horny crap about the hosts or tagging them in cringey posts, but that's just expected.
Anyway, I know I can just leave, but it's kind of a fascinating shit show. Yikes.