Gossips and Inferiority Complexes.
Gossips are people who have a great need to extol their own importance by saying nasty things about other people. They think they have a sacred responsibility to find fault with those they consider inferior to themselves. There is no reason in gossip other than the significance the gossips give to whatever they say about someone else. Gossip is a blood sport. Gossips consider themselves strong for meddling in the personal lives of others. Facts are what gossips say they are. If a non-fact is needed to sabotage the life of whomever they talk about, then they will construct that non-fact. Gossips pronounce as liars anyone who challenges the validity of the non-facts or false logic the gossips use. I think gossips are driven by severe inferiority complexes to spread the nasty stories they do.