Description

This species of flying monkey holds grudges like a squirrel hoards nuts for the winter.

At some point in the past, you likely did something (oftentimes so small and innocent that you do not even remember it) that got under this person’s thin skin. They have been waiting, sometimes for years, to pay you back, and when they learn about the smear campaign, they are willing recruits for the role of flying monkeys.

It is typically some imaginary slight (that no rational person would even think about much less fixate on for years).

Ekho's Experience

I can think of several people who, at some point, I disagreed with on some Facebook post or I forgot to respond to some message/ request or I didn’t tag them in a social media post, who held onto that egregious slight and, when my narcissist’s smear campaign started, they used it as an opportunity to get back at me. Sigh.