>>508275280 (OP)People here and in social media in general are just being hyperbolic for the sake of it. It's a bit of two things, I think: one is a cargo cult, the belief that by being collectively hyperbolic and overly reactive about an event on the internet, you can bring on actual subsequent events. It's quite obvious that people do enjoy this spectacle and want more. This is their way of saying that.
The second is, I think, that a full decade of ragebait, clickbait and algorithmically-curated content remolded some people's brains and made them think about everything in an hyperbolic way.
Of course, I'm gauging this mostly from Xitter and /pol/, two of the worst cesspits of the world. Most people don't care and the NYT literally just frames anything based on how they think it would hurt Trump the most.