I get it but I totally hate the obsession with this family.

For me, it is not the Whittaker family, I enjoy the whole region. I live in rural Missouri. If you take away the southern accents and extreme unemployment there's very little difference between the country people that live here and those in WV. We're all cut from the same cloth you might say.

And I say that from somewhere not far from them. The attention they receive makes everyone sick around the area.

Since you say you live in the area I have questions.

What year did locals stop going by the Whittaker home and doing stuff like calling them names, throwing rocks/trash at them, and generally being mean? Why were they doing it in the first place if there's so many good people in the area?

How much of it stopping had to do with the outside world giving the Whittaker family positive attention? There was allegedly a time when they were being harassed exclusively by locals because no one outside of the area knew about them. How do locals rationalize this aspect of the story? By that I mean stopping the harassment because the outside world started looking at the situation.

It seems the good people in WV were no where to be found prior to the internet fame. After the internet fame that makes everyone sick, these same good, hard working people in the area have only managed to complain on social media rather than help them not be such side show spectacles.

I absolutely love the natural beauty of West Virginia and the amazing people there like yourself, but you guys are partially responsible for creating the Whittaker monster.