>>211900480>why is the internet so mean now?>it wasn't always like thisWhen the internet was young, it was all just nerds on niche forums.
With social media, normies have a voice now.
Most lonely people are bitter and angry.
The type of people who used to write angry letters to points of view and letters to their local MP in green ink can now unleash their bile unfiltered to a much wider audience.
Social media awards anything divisive as it creates maximum engagement. The people that are passionately in agreement and the people who are angrily in opposition arguing in the comments and creating more content.