This supplements pro-level psychological entrapment of a poor new author and villification of that author across the internet and culminates in funny videos depicting all self - published authors as egotistical cheaters. (dosomedamage.com)
If you don't have policies or a platform, then villification and scapegoating are the next best thing. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
I have written before of the orchestrated villification that comes the way of climate scientists (bbc.co.uk)