Quote Originally Posted by thf24 View Post
Let's not insult our collective intelligence and act like hostility behind the safety and anonymity of a keyboard is anything new in the Trump era. When you have a large community of many different dispositions and walks of life coming together to discuss a common, passionate interest, it's human nature for some bad feelings to arise. It does seem to be a little worse at lately however; likely due to several polarizing events occurring in quick succession.
Here is why I agree with D61 -

Maybe you shouldn't label it as Trump's Internet (although I'm sure that if he thought he could brand it and make money off of it he would have) - however we are in an age where the leader of the free world uses Twitter to launch personal attacks on international leaders, corporations he doesn't like, policy he doesn't like, the media he doesn't like, etc., so why should we be surprised that message board angst is a thing. It's more eligant than saying, "dude, where have you been, even the President picks fight in the Internet nowadays."