People were “following the current narratives” way before the internet, now they just have platforms to display their unoriginal ignorance, which admittedly makes it more annoying (but if we could just snap out fingers and make people think, the world would be a fundamentally different place, lol). Maybe they wouldn’t be able to hold these ridiculous opinions for long if they had more “shameful” interactions that others could spectate (IRL or on public videocalls, for instance), but on pseudonymous discussion forums like this one conversations and dissent can be more… challenging.