Why do people tend to gossip about someone who experienced a hardship or setback rather than offering them actual support?

[BananaNanaa29]

[AutumnSerenity]

Because most people aren’t where they want to be in life so they often grapple with low self-esteem, past traumas, mental health challenges, financial struggles, health issues, and unhealthy partnerships. The prevalence of suffering outweighs the happiness in the world. Regrettably, engaging in gossip becomes an avenue for people to boost their own self-esteem. What’s worse, instead of breaking the cycle, people often perpetuate negative behaviors that they experienced by repeating them. In other words, it’s all they know how to do because that’s how they were treated when they were in need of help. There is also the sad reality that once we enter adulthood, life automatically transforms into this vast competition where helping anyone may detract from your own personal success. Overall, it’s a mixture of envy, selfishness, and ignorance.

[rosemilk]

because their lives are boring, they're terrible people, if it doesn't affect them they don't care, low empathy, it makes them feel better about their own lives

[kingmaker21]

If you want help them ask for help...
Everyone is free to do whatever they want to do... if you don't like them move away.

[Nikki1989]

Most people are too selfish and greedy to want to help anyone. It is very sad.

[BananaNanaa29]

And yet they have so much time and energy to talk about people lol

[Cutegirl06]

Because it makes them feel better about themselves.