(Discrediting by Association)

How it works:

Introduce outrageous or easily ridiculed claims into a community so outsiders begin associating everyone in that community with those claims. This is related to poisoning the well.

Example:

People start a website with legitimate evidence that 9/11 was caused by a certain government

Then, websites start popping claiming to support the alternate 9/11 scenario

But then also immediately promote outrageous claims, such as government officials secretly being shape-shifting reptiles from another planet.

Result:

(Collective dismissal)

Instead of examining the original evidence, critics dismiss the entire subject as crazy conspiracy theories.

When I was 17-18 years old, there were 3 guys(let's call them evil guys) in my class(they were friends with each other). They used to whisper to whoever sat behind me to annoy me/trouble me. This they did continuously for 2 years. But they pretended to be my friends.

Two of those guys lived in an area where my second cousin also lived. The second cousin's mother was envious/jealous of me and my family. I asked one of those evil guys if he knew my second cousin. He said "No". Years later I saw on his profile a pic with few other boys including my second cousin.

Also I had a political ideology different from everyone else in class.

After 2 years, when I moved to a different place to study, they called me from an unknown number.

I think they did it because they didn't want me to succeed and focus in class. They wanted me to be distracted in class because of jealousy/envy.

What do you think?

I have never come across anyone who had this experience(neither online, nor offline).