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As another boomer in my 30s I would have to agree, the internet is worse now than it's ever been due to the easy availability of the internet through smartphones and all sorts of mobile devices. Back in the early 2000s and 90s the user numbers were more limited to only those who cared enough to learn how to operate a computer, usually teenagers and geeky types. 
You can find a huge fan community now for basically anything anime related whereas in the early years of 4chan it was more difficult to find large fan communities and usually anime and game discussion would take place as megathreads on larger forums or sparsely populated IRC channels.