yeah see it's the people who talk about timelines and machine elves and all that >>/x/ shit. our recent culture has encouraged all kinds of performative obnoxiousness such as autists claiming to be evolutionary advancements, and tarot flipping astrologers preaching all the portentous parallels of coincidence between this and that emotion-targeted imagery.
when they stay sane it's just showbiz. when they start believing it, they're gone. divested from consensus reality like the shaggy crusty shaman on the edge of the village. yeah he serves a purpose sometimes, calls attention to the right thing once in a while but... nobody invites him to hang out..