I had a friend group in college that included one guy who always liked to stir up drama. He was always bringing up some imagined slight, then he'd talk to each individual person and convince them, and when he had all his ducks in a row, he'd spring it on his latest victim, and they'd end up shocked that everyone was so offended, and they'd apologize, and there would be tears, and in a few days, it would be someone else.

Near the end of my senior year, he tried it on me, and I just walked away from the group. I ended my senior year still friends with a very small separate group of much cooler people, who I still speak with occasionally, decades later. I haven't spoken to any of the rest since.

Some people are sociopaths who take pleasure in knowing they can manipulate people. Learn to identify them early, and avoid them, and anyone who allows themselves to be manipulated by them.