>doing research on owls for my game
>discover this phenomenon called "mobbing" where little birds gang up on a larger predator to chase it away
I'm not longer calling it crabbing, I'm calling it mobbing. Mobbing is a more accurate comparison to what goes on here. Someone talented shows up and posts their work which blows everything else in /agdg/ out of the water. The resident attention seekers feel threatened, realizing this dev is going to siphon attention away from their bait posts, and so they band together to harass the dev until that dev eventually leaves /agdg/.