>>11542825>>285097500The obvious reasons have previously been stated
>Smart phonesNot so much the iPhone in 2007, which was an expensive curiosity, but the wave of Android phones that hit after 2008, putting the digital teat in the hands of the masses.
>Loss of anonymityFaceberg is entirely responsible for this, although it spread quickly to practically everywhere
>Bland, conformist design trends2000s hipsters did this to you. Anyone remember hipsters? They're sort of like 80s mullet wearers--cringy and amusing, and no one will ever admit to having been one. You know who you are.
>Social mediaSettled seemingly overnight by a normie population informed by decades of "reality" TV and its narcissistic, histrionic sensibilities
>MonetizationSpecifically the monetization of Google, the Pied Piper of Silicon Valley AIDS. This paved the way for an idiot invasion of marketers in tech who promptly locked the developers and engineers that created it all out of their own house and proceeded to fill the ranks with "community managers" (SJWs) and "UX" designers (see hipsters, above).
