Have you seen the documentary Idiocracy? It explain exactly what the cause is.

I have felt this way for a few years now. It doesn't help that many of the family and friends closest to me are getting older. They definitely can't read as well as they used to. I have to make sure to word my posts on Facebook and Instagram very carefully and with concise, efficient diction. Any sarcasm or meaning left implied just flies over their heads. It scares me regarding when I get to their age.

Shadow wizard money gang, we love casting spells

This is the funniest thing to me right now despite the dead meme

We all have collective brainrot

Are you calking me illiterate? Wtf man, get out tankie.

/s /j

Yeah, I feel like people just wanna start a fight without even reading what the actual argument is.

Am I the only one that's scared this isn't from social media / attention span but actually maybe that a long term side effect of COVID could partly explain this? I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory and I've never heard anyone phrase it like I'm doing right now but it seems like this virus changes how we think. I've heard people say for the first time in their life they couldn't control their thoughts, my father couldn't stop having nightmares for multiple nights...