I can't even blame Tim Apple for this one. If I knew I could bribe a total idiot with a trinket and get what I want worth way more in return, I'd probably do it too.
I've been alive long enough to have become an adult before social media happened.
Social media is the correct answer.
I've never witnessed something have a more detrimental effect on society.
As an American, our discourse, especially political, went absolutely apeshit at the same time social media and smart phones started becoming a household thing. We absolutely would not be in the situation we currently find ourselves if not for social media.
There are simply too many ignorant humans for social media to be anything other than a total disaster.
Apparently bringing corpses from the 90s back who got famous singing about fucking children is ok, but some people with brown skin dancing provacatively is a bridge too far.
Just sell them in the Bible Belt. You'll make a killing.