>>10947366I think there's a difference between gossip and bullying, and these days a lot of lolitas call the latter the former. Gossip in the sense of discussing scammers, or who has beef with who, or if a convention or brand or "influencer" did something wild, or what trends are and if they suck, that's fun in a tabloid rag kind of way.
But these days most people's idea of "gossip" is talking about how fat/ugly/annoying the vendetta target of the month is, transvestigating random women Anyone I Dislike Is A Man style, and infighting about every topic under the sun. There's also "cow" culture where instead of keeping up with news with the community as a whole, you pick one "cow" to fixate on and try to make everything they do into a gossip topic. I've noticed whenever someone brings up a new topic or event that doesn't involve an established "cow", it gets derailed or buried in favor of whatever some "cow" had for lunch. For gossip, anyone should be fair game. If you're limited to a small pool of established people to talk about, it's just targeted harassment.
This definition of gossip is very juvenile, Burn Book type nonsense, and I don't think it can be compared to the gossip habits of 20th century adult women.
