There is a sickness we rarely address.

It seeps into classrooms, homes, offices, and every corner of society.

Bullying.

Not just the loud kind—the shoves in the hallway or the cruel taunts on playgrounds. But the quiet, insidious kind too. The kind that hides in whispers and smirks.

Where did this culture come from? How did we let it grow?

Look at legacy media. The bad boy always seemed so cool. Music videos glorified the cruel, the cunning, the one with power over others. Even books sometimes turned the bully into a misunderstood anti-hero, deserving pity instead of consequence.

And so, we absorbed it.