There is more recently, last 10 years or so, what academics would call a "pathologizing" of mostly normal behaviors, which would include simple misunderstandings, the sometimes awkward human interactions of meeting someone new, things like that, are now: "oh that's gaslighting", "They left me on read", "they didn't text me back right away", "soft ghosting", people have classified behavior down to this extremely narrow level
and you tie that to the idea that you "cut" people off, "ghost" people", "block" people whatever term, (you see the link between those three terms?) people are often very, very quick to look for ways to cut off a connection
in their mind, they are trying to be productive, protecting themselves, efficient, whatever, but it leads to a lot of posturing, hyper vigilance, extremely conditional, about minor things.
Like the mirror story, or the "hey shorty" texts.