It started in the late 70s-80s. But hey didn't your generation have swingers, hippies, and free love?
But as I've said from my old moderation days before social media was a thing... the very concerning kids back then are now adults and apparently raising their own concerning kids and are as completely dense as their own parents were back then as to what is going on. Kids that feel completely abandoned and isolated will turn to dark corners of the internet and social media for validation and acceptance, and.. well the love they don't believe they have in the 'real world'. They can find validation of their unstable thoughts and feelings. Based on the documents today there was quite a bit of contention between the values and expectations of his father and the person he wanted to be. Everyone wants this killer to fit into some neat little box to exploit, and the truth is the kid was an absolute mess. Lately, there's a been a bunch of these type shooters like this.. individuals who have been exploited online - some by new types of extremist groups that society does not have a handle on.
It's hard not to laugh at some of the bizarre clearly insane types that are produced... at a hearing about Luigi today there was a woman that is adamantly claiming she's in an online AI relationship with him. There's been many articles posted lately about people having 'relationships' with AI. This is similar, it's not a bot convincing someone to kill, but anon users ****posting brain rot to vulnerable kids willing to consume and act on it. The parents will say they had no idea, all the while there was probably warning signs, but they continued to blindly feed guns and online access.