I think that what happened in real life is just the standard everyday Bay Area cuckoo bullshit. The reason we're hearing about it online as "drama" is due to the fact that the rat community's predominant coping mechanism is to smile and nod until things get so bad it's impossible to ignore, and then instantly say the thing that results in the least anger

Who would have suspected that socially oblivious, conflict-averse autists are really bad at identifying or dealing with shitty situations and bad actors???