It was a bit of a joke. MTV generally enforces stereotypes of people through "reality"-TV shows. People (in the high teens/twenties, the majority of the internet population) watch this trash and get ideas about how people are 'supposed' to be. They never learn to appreciate differences in people, to the point of becoming afraid of them. This prompts people to bully/hate them.


Obviously MTV is not the sole responsibility for this. There are many factors that contribute to this unfortunate occurrence. Bottom line is that people are afraid to be different, afraid of those who are different, and hate whatever they are afraid of. What exactly is causing this, I cannot say.