>>115639
Imagine if you will
Some influential personality, online or otherwise, suddenly puts a spotlight on your hobby of woodcarving. Suddenly, millions of people get into woodcarving. Tools for it sell out and any that remain are expensive. The internet is flooded with cheap tutorials on how to woodcarve (poor ones mind you) flooding any feed you look at. You start to see people en masse saying woodcarving is an lgbt friendly hobby and half the tools you'd buy have flags on them. You want to find examples of good carvings to admire or study but you can't because the internet is flooded with low effort carvings made with overengineered power tools which take out much of the fun, only used to make things like whatever flavor of the month meme or character there is onto wood, which gets all the attention while quality work is buried. Some people who tried to get some attention for their wood carvings quit because they can't keep up against the tidal wave. You now have less interesting carvings to look at online, the barrier for entry is low and full of undesirables, and as a result your hobby becomes the laughing stock of the hobby sphere to the point where you might feel ashamed to even admit to finding it interesting.
Then the worst part, most of these people having consumed the hobby just leave and move onto whatever is the next most popular thing, but have left your hobby in a broken state where all the high quality is gone, leaving only those who desire what once was. These are just some examples adapted to woodcarving based on what has happened to other hobbies that don't gatekeep