Authored by Tom Phillips via Buzzfeed.com, The anger factory has changed a bit since 2013... 1. Somebody, somewhere does something bad. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 2. Somebody spots the bad thing. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 3. People quickly pick up on the bad thing. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 4. Tweets about the bad thing start to go viral. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 5. One of the most viral tweets will just be a screenshot of somebody else's tweet, by someone with a verified account. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 6. The most viral tweet about it will have a completely inaccurate claim in it. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 7. The correction will get 12 retweets. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 8. People start sending angry messages to the wrong Twitter account. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 9. The media quickly spots the growing anger over the bad thing, and writes articles about it. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 10. Just as quickly, there is a backlash against people thinking that the bad thing is bad. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 11. ...even though by this point people are mostly just making jokes? Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images / Fox 12. The people who did the bad thing apologise for the bad thing. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 13. People mostly seem to accept the apology! Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 14. Then suddenly there are Nazis everywhere. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 15. Holy shit so many Nazis. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 16. For unclear reasons, somebody doxxes the person who got mistaken for the people who did the bad thing. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 17. The people who apologised for the bad thing now apologise for their apology. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 18. Somebody makes a video about the whole thing. Oh no, the liberals have been TRIGGERED again. pic.twitter.com/DXKIp1HsYv — The Liberated Brain (@Liberated_Brain) https://twitter.com/Liberated_Brain/status/954021304226721792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); 19. Everybody will accuse pretty much everybody else of being “bots”. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images / Fox 20. And then... Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Fox News 21. The President of the United States of America is tweeting about it. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Donald Trump 22. Now lots of people are replying to the President of the United States! Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 23. People have ~theories~ about what’s going on. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 24. These theories are quite extensive. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 25. They go on for really quite a long time. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 26. Such a long time. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 27. Eventually, the people who apologised for apologising about the bad thing have to apologise for their apology about the first apology. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images 28. The story is now, somehow, front page news around the world for the next week. Tom Phillips / BuzzFeed / Getty Images / NY Times 29. It will never stop. We live in a hell we have made for ourselves. There is only one escape.