Pandemic online behavior timeline

#scraps #pandemic #online-culture

So is the timeline of events something like

  1. Pandemic forces Everyone to go Online
  2. People unfamiliar with trolls and bait propagate outrage
  3. More mean people show up, then stay online, likely because:
    • It's easier to rile people up online
    • It's easier to get away with cruelty online
  4. Many online spaces turn downright corrosive
  5. . People bring their Bad Online Behaviors IRL

30-50 years later we're definitely going to have some academic paper about internet culture and the cultural shifts that the pandemic caused.