Comment by notahacker

Think he was always unusually susceptible to the feedback loop of social media.

Long before he was trying to be a political figure, criticism of his book resulted in this glorious piece of peak internet forum nonsense in which he responded to criticism by registering an anonymous account to say things like "I hate Adams for his success too" and "he's a certified genius which is hard to hide" until the mods decided to call him out...

https://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Educatio...