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'Generations' do not exist. They are meaningless ways to think about the world. Drugs, porn and gore were at the fingertips of anyone using the internet 20 years ago just as much as they are now. Some of the original sites which had executions and cartel videos actually thankfully no longer exist.
FWIW people said the same intergenerational brianrot about TV and Radio. It was as meaningless for those too.
People have been doing the same thing for as long as recorded history, Socrates decried moving from tablets and chisels to papyrus and link, claiming it would destroy human memory and create the illusion of wisdom without real knowledge.
Same with hand-copied books to the printing press, to the novel, to telegrams, to radio, to TV and so on
I'm sure some of the Brians are okay
Some of the nicest people I know are named Brian (or even Bryan)