It was the advent of smartphones and social media that ended gatekeeping on the Internet and made it so any bum, sociopath, idiot, and actual or emotional child could make themselves heard and nobody would know they were mentally ill. I'm not exaggerating: if you were to draw a graph of social media, with people as nodes and directed lines showing who influences who, the core social influencers are crazy or stupid people who have just learned how to make "mic drop" statements. Those same people would otherwise be nobodies. The famous people that everyone knows are just vapidly parroting those weirdos.