SYKES' TAKE ON - A VERSUS B - ANTIS IN A BIG PUNCHUP WITH - ANTIS

It seems the New Year has got of to a bruising start - a monumental punchup is building up between a soi-disant 'international journalist' who I will refer to as A and a reputation-tarnished ex-solicitor - B. From what I can gather reading twitter and B's forum it appears that A has purloined large chunks of B's research for an upcoming video she is making. As usual in these cases, B has been delving into A's past with gusto, posting up copious long items on his forum. In response, A has been rubbishing, threatening and dissing B on twitter and facebook. Now, I have a problem with this. A and B claim they are working, separately, towards the same goal, the truth. But as you read their attacks, mainly personal, you start to realise this is anything but their intent. In fact what both are doing is trying to upstage the other - with B probably winning hands down as he has been at this for far longer than A, who, like many before her has jumped on the bandwagon in order to up her celebrity image. But this will not work; besides B she has made many enemies and they are now coming out of the woodwork to join the fray with revelations of perverse behavoir. We had one such example on here recently; one of A's enemies offered to send copies of nasty emails between her and A to me which I rejected out of hand - we have no intention on this forum of becoming part of this. Normally I don't give a monkeys about B and his drivel, but this time I have a distinct feeling that he may well come out on top, despite there definitely being revolution growing in the lower ranks of his forum. However, what I am having difficulty getting my head around is why antis are fighting antis. Is it to do with oneupmanship, or inflated egos, or maybe the wish for fame and fortune? Why don't we see pros fighting pros, dishing the dirt etc on people on the same side as them? Sure, they have disagreements, but they don't allow those to create dissension and rifts between them. I suppose there are many reasons, but at this moment in time I'm not going to try and work it out, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the ensuing mayhem. Who's hogging the popcorn?