People are more dumb, entitled and dangerous today than anytime the last 40 years. Internet has reached the point where it’s brought moron mob mentality on a global level.
All you got to do is buy a smartphone, download Twitter and now you can be highly misinformed and on the same page with a group of morons pushing something and telling each other to show up somewhere.
There used to be a higher barrier entry to connect like this online. I’m dating myself, but as a kid I remember having to install my own modem because we bought a cheaper PC so I had to open up the computer, learn about the hardware and upgrade things manually to connect online. Many people online were there because we all had to learn how to connect in similar ways or had a decent paying job to buy an expensive PC with everything pre-installed. The same went for online gaming. There was some survivorship bias.
Now anybody with a cheap cellular plan can get online and say something. I’ve got to remind myself this isn’t the same crowd online from 25-30 years ago who don’t simply believe every dumb thing they read and kept things like Yahoo News at distance.