I mean what
Anyway I just remembered the Michelle thing
So in psychology, outsiders tend to be looked upon with great scrutiny and massive distrust. Imo Michelle has been placed in a position where she's not part of the natives or anything to do with the tribe originally
The tribe is Prof and co. Michelle is the exotic Westerner researching Kuru disease, and scum are misfolded proteins.
So the basis of the superstition she's been given or was given has to do with her being, essentially, an outsider. Likewise with me and really any slot that wasn't here from the getgo
I read Mich as town, but slot of what I see is "you no here before. You different. Different bad. You no to to push and drunk with us. That bad. We puke but you do not puke with us. How dare. That also bad. You are a misfolded protein"
But this can easily apply to misfolded proteins themselves (aka scum) but it gets trickier to judge based on just being an outsider. So her posts are what townpings me. However I won't discount that she might have the upperhand and can easily deepwolf if she wanted. Her "if you don't believe me whatever" attitude reads genuine to me and is pretty commonplace. Not substantial evidence here since I'm lacking quite a bit of context
But that's what I think *might* be happening