I think a LOT of the stories are embellished - mostly in the way the OP's friends and family react. From what I've read, that drama has to be manufactured to meet the "current conflict" rules, and so I tended to ignore the reaction bits of the posting (my friends say I'm the asshole for this). But still, reading this stuff was addictive and depressing and I just had to stop cold turkey.

AITA had filled the gap when I had put the brakes on my Tumblr usage. I'd backed away from the T as my casual scroll-friend because I'd been avoiding info about the Kenobi show, but since I'm now thoroughly spoiled, I can go back to it. I'm not addicted to Tumblr (at least I don't think so) because it doesn't provide any real emotional engagement - I have no real tumblr friends (or if I do have them, we quickly migrate to Discord). I'm there for the pretty, that's about it.