Man, I'm honestly glad that mocking individual people in fandom as a pastime hobby has stopped being a thing, or at least has lessened in popularity and has become more frowned upon in wider fandom circles. I can appreciate a good snark, but there is a fine line between MST3K-esque snark and just being mean-spirited, and unfortunately so many fell into the latter. I remember roaming around those comms back then and had some laughs, but in hindsight it was just in poor taste. Many people took their comments too far.

So yeah. The internet is a lot worse in many ways, unfortunately. But I'm glad I can read YouTube comments now without losing my faith in humanity, I'm glad people aren't flamed on Ao3 as frequently as they were on fanfiction.net. (At least in my experience.)

Oh yeah, definitely.