Doesn’t matter how it happened, only that it is happening.

The fact that yellow journalism is free and quality journalism is hidden behind a paywall, and the fact that many internet people are indignant about both quality journalism and paying for it while also guzzling down exclusively headlines and third hand information in comment sections through a firehose, are what will be studied in future decades about why there was suddenly a strange and convoluted anti-intellectual movement in this era.