Could you guys get triggered and feel offended less easily please

[AsGryffynn]

VGPolyglot said:

AsGryffynn said:

As someone who was online since the nineties, I can safely say the internet has become more snobbish, entitled and easily offended or alternatively, incredibly obscene and profane with time. However, this is really noticeable around six years ago... No idea why. 

Maybe it's confirmation bias.

No, I did notice a lot of users who used to be amicable and friendly in sites like Deviantart left shortly after Google Chrome started to rise in popularity and heavily customizable engines like Presto went out of vogue. Pages started to update their looks every once in a while, rather than every two or three years and sites like del.icio.us, MySpace, dA itself and smaller, standard cult forums and fan communities started to shut down en masse. I noticed an exodus to social media and people talking more with those outside of "tightly knit" circles like they used to before. 

I am thinking it was the "publicization" of the internet after smartphones and social media became popular that led to the death of "respectful differences". Agree to disagree used to be commonplace pre '12. It started to become more common to assert that the other person was objectively wrong and his or her opinion had to change in order to enter a community. "GTFO" and "get out" were rare back then. Git gud was also less common.