Nah, there's always been retards, but most of the time they were just ignored. Now they have a website specifically made for the purpose of allowing them to gather.

It's like, you know there's rats in cities, but you don't typically see them around all the time because they tend to hide. But if the government collected all the rats in the city and put them all in a pile, you'd say "woah, where did all these rats come from? they weren't there before!"