Because the barrier of entry is gone. Some level of difficulty of creating content weeded out the morons. It is now flooded with "content creators" of at best average intelligence. The early web was glorious. A bunch of weirdos and nerds with at least some technical skills created personal websites, mostly horrible-looking, and linked to each other. There were counters, guestbooks, moderated discussion boards...
We were children discovering a new world, all over again. It was full of wonder and magic.
Now - any idiot can whip out their phone and write anything they want, in a few seconds, and create "content". And THEN we all have to process that shit.
While this rationale sounds true, but it doesn't actually align with my observations.
Most of the web's noise content isn't low-effort comments, but low-effort commercial websites: Sometimes "tutorials" for extremely easy tasks padded with a bunch of superfluous instructions, sometimes freebooting other content, other times apparently AI-generated texts that seem legitimate at first glance but don't really make sense.
Yes, absolutely, but it's in the same vein. In the past, to create content you had to go through some things.
I still remember being on the phone with Network Solutions for an hour to activate my first domain. They asked for my password... Over the phone.... Now content creation is easy and, yes, automated.
We were children discovering a new world, all over again. It was full of wonder and magic.
Now - any idiot can whip out their phone and write anything they want, in a few seconds, and create "content". And THEN we all have to process that shit.