Why is the majority of the internet just angry kids now that throw one liners? No more posts with decent length to get into discussions.

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Partially it's the rose colored glasses effect, because trust me, 2015 was no threshold for when internet discussions began sucking. We just tend to forget the bad stuff.

Also, in '15 whatever platform you used may have grown, the more people there are in one place the more a mob mentality pops up.

And the social media system trains us essentially. Write a long, thoughtful comment that took an hour to write, and nobody reads it, nobody likes it. Write a witty zinger or echo the prevailing mob's sentiment, something that takes seconds, and people love it.

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You make a stupid quote or a lame joke it gets 100 + upvotes. Ask an unusual question that requires thought about the lore you get ignored.

[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Write a witty zinger or echo the prevailing mob's sentiment, something that takes seconds, and people love it.

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being the chan example. The cringe reddit cascades being the normie one