[tjr225]

It is so strange to me specifically because the cohort that seems to be eating this up(my parents age, I mean) were the same ones telling me NOT to believe anything I read on the internet when I was young and the internet was new.

What happened?

[ceejayoz]

They started getting targeted with stuff aimed at their existing biases.

(Along with an endless stream of Minions memes, it would seem.)

[sossles]

It's easy to disbelieve what you read on the internet when it's one voice in a thousand. But increasingly, all thousand voices are telling you what you want to hear.

[gowld]

Age-related cognitive decline.