Part of me agrees with digi_owl, I think seeing reports of 4chan trolls and those "hackers known as anonymous" probably ended up mobilizing a lot of jackasses t

Part of me agrees with digi_owl, I think seeing reports of 4chan trolls and those "hackers known as anonymous" probably ended up mobilizing a lot of jackasses that probably would have never gotten into that "scene". Kinda like how the media has latched onto this "killer clown" bullshit after some kid claimed he saw one and now you're seeing reports of this shit all over the country. However, if memory serves, the whole "anonymous" crap really came into it's own somewhat in lockstep with the rise of social media which itself has given a voice to a lot of people that otherwise would have just been isolated to a forum or shitty GeoCities website. So now you've got a bunch of eggs and anime avatars screaming about corrupt Hillary and fascist Trump and spewing vitriol at anything that dare cross their path. Of course everyone is getting so damned politically polar in this time-frame, we've got major news networks half-acting like gossip blogs, and now every jackass with a cellphone has a(n anonymous) voice. It's really just a confluence of shit.