Are we becoming meaner?

[Fish-Eyed Fool]

I remember the days when the internet wasn't filled with morons. Back then, we called it the post office.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

The internet was always full of pretty dumb people. But the homogenization of everything in recent years means the dumb people can now have an open forum to be dumb at each other in very loud, obvious ways. Just look at the comments for any hot button news post on Facebook. It's fucking indecipherable. And I think this has caused newer users showing up to think the internet is just a place where you can be dumb and everyone will like it. This is why meme culture now is so disposable. Shit like Rickrolling and Over 9000 were funny because users knew it was fucking stupid and laughed at how outsiders would perceive it. Now though memes are just loud noises and shitty photoshops because that's what amuses morons.

 

[BenevolenceInDenial]

A lot of it may be because rational-thinking peoples were driven out or discouraged from using mainstream social media, along with slithery politically right types and outright sociopaths, so we're stuck here, in the corners. Why was thr left able to make this happen? Numbers. Which rational people always lacked. So while this vibe you're talking about is still present, I feel (the good one), there are now people who are eager to echo the notion, from the shadows or otherwise, but for all the wrong reasons.