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[–]LyingSpirit472 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't even think it was any of those, and it's the endgame of social media.

The Internet already led to GIFT starting- people could be fuckwads on the Internet because they were anonymous.

Social media then changed that because people started being fuckwads under their real name/photo, and felt it was okay...and then, somewhere there was a sea change where being a fuckwad under your real name/photo led to people being emboldened to be fuckwads in everyday life.

The only thing the pandemic did was take these now incredible fuckwads with a firm belief they are the main character anyway, and put them back on the Internet where they already believed everyone else had no humanity and it's okay to do whatever you want to them.