Exactly what happens with school shootings as well. People wonder “Why did kids go shoot up schools? They must have been influenced by the [group name]!” And then they do a 24 hour news cycle where they dig up every single thing about the shooter and try to find a deeper meaning in their actions. If you were a kid being bullied all the time and you saw that on the news, of course you’d think “Wait a minute. I can make them all pay??”. Kids are crazy impressionable. Adults aren’t much better, though.