It's not hard to be intellectually honest and negative. Negativity also performs better than optimism on social media.

Much harder to be intellectually honest and optimistic with bias for action, willingness to fail, learn, ability to find the appropriate amount of signal in all feedback and then discard remaining noise, and most importantly, not quitting.

I believe people know that they have the option of doing good things or bad things. In doing both, there will be an appropriate consequence. Doing good, many times, requires you to spend more energy, but the rewards can be long lasting and very pleasant. Doing bad, many times, doesn’t require much energy, but doing so IRL may have strong consequences. The thing is that on social media, people find a place to do bad things (again, cause it’s easy and requires less effort) and the key difference is that the consequences range from nothing at all to small ones. So in the end, we see many who sadly chose this path, specifically for the fact of the internet being kind of a “land with no rules”.

Thankfully, over here, many who have been doing some bad things, like spamming and other stuff like that, have been getting their deserved consequence of a Spammer Label, Mute, Report, Ban, etc.