The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well, it's just a nicer way to say envy.
I was talking specifically about what people were tweeting him. Lots of spoiled brat, and poor little rich boy comments. The man is 31 for fudges sake.
I too don't like it when people become arrogant and abuse their positions or look down on people, and that's one of the good things about NZ not many people have that innate sense of superiority that you see in other countries. But I don't mind it if someone is successful, and he's been working since the age of 6 to be where he is.
We don't know the reasons behind the tweet, and the fact that he pulled it down shortly after posting it probably means that he changed his mind about whether or not that was appropriate. So for dozens of people to hound the guy seems a bit of an overreaction, especially based on a lack of evidence and pure conjecture.
I also tweet complaints, and review places. Nobody hounds me, people were attacking him specifically because he is wealthy and famous, and for no other reason than that. Hence envy, hence tall poppy syndrome.
As I said above, I'm not a fan of the man - I prefer to support more working class teams (if you can call any team in F1 working class) like Williams than the sort of team that Hamilton drives for, he always struck me as a bit of a arrogant git.