Everyone is slowly discovering the same thing, which is that the "free internet" and all the fun you had and freedom and positive potential of the technology, is dead, and the wild west period is over. You can no longer be a person only a brand.

Sometimes the proverbial drop that makes the vase overflow is understanding the "algorithm", sometimes it's alienation from cultural peers over money, sometimes its video games journalism. Ultimately all of it is the realisation that you are embodied, and you "are" not online

You are sitting in "front" of online and looking at a screen. Many lash out in these moments because that is a very disgusting thing to realize - it may be the case that something/someone else "ruined" the internet, but there is a inescapable part of it that is realizing,

That you were simply wrong about what is was, and what it could do, and what it could be. There never truly was this potential for connection in it. You are embodied. You are not "inside" the screen. You are looking at it. you wanted to escape the body. You wanted to be inside.

It's not only that the parameters have changed - the change is mainly to make certain aspects explicit which were formerly implicit, hidden away, easier to willfully ignore. The discovery is not only a revelation of what has changed, but also of what always-already was the case