"Why you'd want to be on the inside of something like that is, so far, beyond me."

But it happens - and in a way it's quite encouraging to remember that it happens. Someone who is playing along with various types of unpleasantness out of fear of embarrassment, or fear of becoming a victim themselves may not be too admirable, but they are less worrying than someone who really is enjoying it. They are the soft underbelly of the beast.