Originally Posted by Ding_Batty:
“But that doesn't explain why everyone gives her so much credit. There are people on this forum who ACTUALLY BELIEVE she is the one responsible for ALL the other HMs bad behavior. They attribute every negative action by any HM to her influence.
You cant say thats because she's a car accident.”
Almost anything (and perhaps everything) she does is twisted by some into a negative. She's also on a lose lose type thing with some viewers- 'If she confronts someone she is a bully, if she doesn't she's a 2 faced coward who can't say things to people's face after all' type of thing.
To answer the original question I believe the reason some people seem obsessed, is because she's such a polarising character, and some of the CBB viewers can't help but fully buy into the panto villain stuff, whilst exaggerating it to the Nth degree to make it fit their pre-determined narrative.
Her becoming popular, hasn't exactly gone down well with some, which results in even more anti Hopkins stuff hence the rather large number of posts/ tweets etc on her.
Well that's my take anyway.