I've been online since the mid/late 90s
and there's always been a flow of people getting into conspiracy theory and anti-vax/anti-science/woowoo bollocks. It's more mainstream now, but I imagine the ratio of vaguely sane to batshit has remained fairly stable.
I have no evidence to back this up, obviously.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 17:19,
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I don't think there has necessarily been an influx of congenital halfwitism over the past few generations.
But rather the weak-willed and hypersuggestible members of contemporary society are significantly more vulnerable to fuckwit conspiracy theories and the like thanks in no small part to the prevalence of social media.
Before the turn of the millennium, (besides a moronity of conspiracy theory enthusiasts meeting up in church halls/on usenet/etc) people's general level of fuckwittery didn't really exceed old wife's tales about taking hot baths as an alternative to the morning after pill and so on.
But these days, nonsense like Qanon, 5G mind control projects, etc are being pumped into their brains en masse by the world's largest gathering of neckbeards.
There aren't more of them. Just a significantly larger audience.
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