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[–] Buddahriffic 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah agreed, I don't think it was an age thing either. I wonder sometimes if it was mostly autistic people on the internet in the 90s and early 00s while NTs didn't have the patience for it other than maybe for games, research, and cybersex.

Then phones made it accessible during short idle times and more and more people started participating and things devolved from there. And then the pandemic set the stage for it to get to addiction levels for more people, though it was getting bad before that.

And I wonder when the Russians started stirring shit online. That couldn't have helped things.