It's never not been, we've just created ways for them to be insistently louder.
"Only two things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the Universe." β Albert Einstein
@Tibalt_Ablaze
I suspect the world has been filled with idiots since the dawn of humankind.
@Tibalt_Ablaze Well, from my perspective, it looks like a couple tens of thousands of years ago, y'all got wiped out to just a few thousand of you by the after-effects of a big volcanic eruption in what is now southeast asia, and those of you that were left engaged in an unhealthy amount of inbreeding.
Before that, things were reasonably calm, and most people didn't stick each other's body parts in campfires so often.
In short, the stupid's been a bit more than ankle-deep for a while now.
@Tibalt_Ablaze When they started lowering standards for education.