I don’t know if this is even required… from kahneman & tversky (iirc) basically negativity is more ‘visible’ in relationships so that for every negative comment, it requires anywhere from 5 to 20 positive comments to balance it.

So if we assume that negative and positive is amplified equally, and there are even amounts of each, the end result will be pretty negative.

And while this was probably always true, the volume was probably low enough that the connection to your family and tribe were more dominant. Now, the volume from the internet might be more dominant.