"And society turns a blind eye to this because the way things work in 2018 is through victimhood currency."

Spot-on. I do agree with you also that social hierarchy allows some, perhaps more-so when feeling down, to escape from their own woes.

The "currency" of victim status seems to be on the opposite end of that spectrum, seemingly feeding off of feeling sorry for oneself and shaming others for perceived lesser or nonexistent struggles.

I this all has to do with a complete lack of responsibility for oneself. At the end of the day, we all have problems to deal with, and the types who look to others to fix their problems are externalizing and/or scapegoating. It creates a black hole in social atmospheres, because each person is solely responsible for their own mental health, and no external person (or group of people) will be able to patch up that void for someone else.

So when these insecurities combine and are applied to body positivity/fat acceptance movements, it has the potential to become this vampiric bullying group that shames others because they blame others for what makes them insecure. This has many parallels in society and is not unique to the fat acceptance movement (and not overlooking your personal experience/interest with such a topic), but I agree fat acceptance has a pretty loud voice these days. Loud enough that companies like Dove had decided to waste marketing expenses on making their products to resemble various body shapes. Reactions like that help no one. When people feel insecure they need to look inside themselves to figure out what they can do to remedy the issue. Very sad that so many have deeply lost touch with themselves.