Scrappy-Doo and Our Capacity to Hate

You don’t have to be a Scooby-Doo fan to know that everybody hates Scrappy-Doo. But the more you peel back the layers of how internet hate and cultural nerdrage has manifested through Scrappy, actually really, really weird. We dive into Scrappy’s history, the psychology of scapegoating, how toxic fandom magnifies our own capacity to hate -- and why it’s worth trying to change all that. Find me elsewhere Patreon ► Ko-Fi ► Twitter ► My coloring book! ► My Spider-Man podcast! ► Music Attribution “Voyage” by IvPem is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY-SA 3.0: Source: “Midnight Tokyo” by Downtown Binary, with permission by the artist Source: What is