The immense levels of insecurity and compensatory ego drives instilled, encouraged and amplified by the net are to blame for this. That and the fact that most people are simple minded drones that follow along with whatever they're told to as they possess totally hollow inner realms and thus need to mimic an image in the hopes they feel it.
The world their childrens children build in a couple of generations will underscore this point so well because you can already see the seeds that are symptomatic of this disease.