I think some people here do "follow the heard" sometimes. But most people here don't seem to do that at all.
When people get a lot of shit like this here, it is usually from people genuinely coming to their own conclusions about them
although the EXTENT to which people attack them is obviously gonna be influenced by how popular that would be, whether someone likes them or not in the first place doesn't seem to be a group decision at all really
and tbh I find the whole "look at me, I'm going it alone instead of following the herd" attitude more annoying than people who just go follow everyone else