[kredd]

You have a point, but my guess is it's simply a numbers game. I remember everyone in middle school sharing explicit, gore, "rough" LiveLeak vides in our school-wide MSN group chats. Probably a percentage of people suffered because of it later in life, but at that point still not everyone was connected to the Internet. Even if the percentage of people that get negatively affected stays the same nowadays, the absolute numbers are bigger, so it makes it to the headlines more often.