Possibly unrelated, but has anyone noticed an increase in (what I can only describe as) internet puritanism and moral indignation? For example, some guy draws fanart of a beloved female character in a swimsuit or underwear or something, and the comments are something along the lines of: "not a good look", "it's not ethical", "it promotes harmful behavior", "it's unhealthy", "OP needs to be banned/put in a mental institution". This isn't even on stuff that would be considered explicit; Stuff like "Shappysway" or "The painter" or "The Coffin of Andy and Leyley" get way more comments like those. Not to mention stuff that is referred to as "brainr*t" or "cr*nge".

I've only primarily seen it on sites like tw*tter, r*dd*t, and youtube comments (which of course, are filled with nutjobs and angry weirdos), but could this be related to the decline of communities dedicated to "weird" interests, including horny stuff? I don't know how true this is, but I have a feeling that there was an internet mindset shift from "I don't like this, I will avoid visiting sites and communities dedicated to this" to "I don't like this, I will remove sites and communities dedicated to this".

I suspect this may be caused by either the migration of insane tumblr users to the wider internet after the sitewide ban of pornographic content, or the influx of "new?" users (people who mostly get their social interaction outside the web and do not spend much time in online communities) into the internet as a result of the worldwide viral outbreak.

Alternatively, the easy answer is that this is a side effect of widespread use of social media services and the "desire"/"need" to monetize each and every piece of "content", to curate a "brand image", to become an "influencer", possibly as a result of seeing financial successes and acclaim of early youtubers doing lets-plays and other stuff c.2008-2012, along with a desire to emulate them.

Thoughts?