There is nothing that will validate breaking a game that costed $60 (sometimes $40). It's a waste of money no matter how you look at it. Makes no sense.
If someone breaks a game CD in a hilarious manner to make a rhetorical point for a video that they upload to YT which garners thousands/millions of views, that would more than make up for the $40-$60 you spent to purchase the game (whether through monetization or other, more valuable means).
So yes, there is something that can validate breaking a game that is not a waste of money and that does make sense.
Great, that's Youtube. Still not applying to the standard individual who doesn't have any of those to gain profit returns to make a buck. Either sell it for sandwich money, or break it for no reason at all really.
True, but you never specified that. You said that you "never understood," which would apply to every scenario in which it happened that you witnessed. And I imagine that you've witnessed it on social media, before.