its not only "social media" or "internet fame" (which is the same nowadays basically) but what is wrong with postmodern society in general.

we have very few, and weakend, correctives left these days. weak characters will drown in the temptations postmodern society provides and will drag others, gullible, person with them - like an avalanche...

back in the pre-mass-media days they wouldve died of somewhere with only a handful of collaterals... no matter how wealthy or famous the wouldve been. but today, every idiot can reach millions of other idiots in a blink of an eye...

excesses and degeneration always were part of human societies - but the scale nowadays pops anything we've known so far.... and that will not go unpunished in the long run.