Being online a lot can make people feel like their lives are boring and pathetic. "Man that dude got to do this and here I am at 45....." and since it's online and you don't actually have to prove anything to anybody - in theory - well, it's a seemingly easy solution to make you feel better.I feel like cases like this are far more widespread than we think, just maybe not quite as extreme.Then again dude might just be scumbag, I obviously don't know