-Shitty economy. It didn't help that Obama was a complete fuck up tool who let immigrants into our country like wildfire and let Asians come through the country through H1-B visa loopholes while we had the slowest recession recovery rate out of every president.
-Backlash against Bush's globalist, pro-war agenda turned basically everyone into a progressive faggot, along with fueling the SJW agenda. Media did a complete 360 because of the social backlash. Keep in mind, SJWs have always been around, but they did not become relevant until the middle of Obama's presidency.
-More people are using social media and are completely addicted to it, making them more shallow and apathetic.
-Vast improvements in technology, such as the invention of the smartphone, socially restricted people to their own little bubbles. Along with this, dating sites and apps were becoming more widespread. Dating apps have existed since the World Wide Web era of the Internet, but they became more popular as the smartphone was gaining popularity.
-Uprising of modern day feminism. Goes hand-in-hand with the aftermath of Bush's post-9/11, globalist, pro-war agenda.
2008 was a much simpler time..
Any point in time after 9/11 is complete garbage tbh.