Yep, in old generations there was this thing about internet being a new frontier where you can nerd down and it wasn't a place for "normal" people and whatever

Yep, in old generations there was this thing about internet being a new frontier where you can nerd down and it wasn't a place for "normal" people and whatever happens online doesn't have IRL consequences. Some of them turned into unbearable a-holes, however newer generations have another kind of relationship with the internet where they are not assuming that everyone is a neckbeard and there are no women on the internet etc. Instead, they are much less anonymous, use real names and are not in the delusion that there are no real world consequences. It's the only way the normies to stick around, despite having orders of magnitude more people online the trolling is not as pervasive as it used to be.