"Mass hysteria", yes. In the best possible way. It is/was a beatific haze of madness, it seems fair to say. But that is common to aesthetic phenomenon, from both the perspective of the creator and the fans. There have been innumerable examples of art of many kinds causing hysterical adulation. It is irrational, in a sense, but the most beautiful, highest parts of existence are so far up/outside of ordinary life that they are or at least *seem* irrational. Things of the sort that Bonbi once was are why existence is worthwhile at all. Nearly all of life is dross. It is beautiful there used to so many of us. When I came across all this, years later, it was like this hidden and magnificent secret I'd found. Like a cult... A terrible, rapturous, secret, agonizing cult. The saddest and most beautiful thing I'd ever found.