Clown world has always been around to a degree imo.
2008 is what set it in though. I think what people fail to realize is that the world has always operated on some bullshit or the other,
its just that in the past it used to be much, much more easy to avoid it.
Internet is what effectively gave morons a megaphone, but even past that-
pre-2008 we had jobs, occupations, most of peoples bullshit got regulated out because you had to work a job and be sociable.
post-2008 theres less jobs, we start to see people who are chronically online and then never get a job more and more, online hugboxes tend to psychologially ruin people, etc.
If we didnt have the financial crash in 2008, I think many things would be better, but I honestly have to wonder how so many of these current online lolcows would be if they were actually forced to get a job at the age of 16
or if the people online pissed off at them had something better to do than being online all the time?