This situation reminds me of the Black Mirror episode, '15 Million Credits'.
The episode follows the frustratingly inconsequential life of a man (Daniel Kaluuya/Kwame Brown) that finds the world he lives in superficial, malicious and unfulfilling - filled with talking heads bathed in moments of shock value.
(He falls in love with a woman and her singing ability, sacrifices his money to offer her an opportunity to escape the hum drum life they live, but the hosts of the show she goes on to display her talent end up not caring and then slut her out on live TV) this correlates to Kwame's career in which he had high potential yet ended up in a less than desirable situation as far as optics go.
He grows even more disgruntled, reaches his boiling point, manages to get on a platform that reaches millions of viewers and opens the floodgates to his exasperating genuine opinion on the current state of affairs.
The viewers flock to it like moths to a flame and what we witness in real time is the transformation of a man disappointed with the system into a man of the system with his newfound celebrity due to his view of the world - all the while not realizing he is now perpetuating the same motives he championed against in the first place.
Tldr; "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."