Its not just gaming. Its just about everything you can think of, from politics to car companies. It's the way communication has developed on the internet. I guess you could say it was like that before with talk radio shock jocks and whatnot, but people think snark and bile is the cool way to 'communicate' and it's proliferated (or should I say infected) the internet.
Since I love gaming, I've tried to appeal to fellow gamers to simply be better, but who am I but one man? Even friends of mine fall into this way of talking to me in emails and stuff and I think they do it without even realizing until I point it out. Its pretty damaging in a societal way if you really think about it.








