That is not entirely true.

It seems that many humans live on a "show" perspective of the world. It is hard to separate what is seen from what is in the eyes though.

Being funny is to put up a show, for example. Even if it is in person, for a single individual. It draws from the same essential stuff.

Intimacy can grow on that "acting" ground, in a sense that they're not mutually exclusive. Many things, in fact, can.

The internet does lack many of the social cues that one would expect from the real world. It also has cues the real world don't have, like logs and history. If it can grow animosity, it also can grow other stuff. Hopefully stuff less disruptive than animosity.

Animosity and comedy seem to be very basal, primitive feelings. Probably the ones that require less thinking. They're not bad, sometimes is good to think less. But not always.

I imagine something similar happened in the real world in the past too. But I could never be 100% sure of it.

Different, but analogous in some ways. Difficult to compare, but undeniably related.