On one hand it is comical on the other had annoying.
All the people that the last month have come out of the woodwork asking about bitcoin, ethereum and ripple are now blowing me up asking me if I get out before it was too late....lol
Forget about those people who are talking to you that way. They know nothing about cryptocurrency and they are all talk. They want not only you but majority to get out of it quickly so that they can spread panic and fear to all the holders. And by just lurking to different boards and sections of this forum you can see many posts that are talking that way.
I agree, some people deliberately to create panic. this is normal, as you say. many of them do not know about crypto and bitcoin. this is one of the factors, poor information and knowledge of reading.
We used to this situation in our daily crypto life and those people who keep on spreading some pain to the weak handlers are resulting to panic. People are so gullible with those information that doesn't have any basis or if they read there's "an expert says" on the news title they will believe on that thing. Most of those news and "experts" aren't really against to bitcoin nor crypto, they just want to make the people react with their words because many are following now the market of cryptocurrency.