Welcome to the internet where everyone is an expert on everything and they've found a meatheaded cadre of people who will back up their argument based on instinct and emotion! It's the communication medium with the most squandered potential ever based on its ability to reach the most people and people's desire to reach out to those who agree with them. I come from a fine art background where consensus opinion is the historical narrative and can only be understood by having a really intense and weird hobby or spending $80,000 American on a BFA or art history degree. I don't even care anymore. "Yeah, your kid could paint a Jackson Pollack. Watercolors of beaches and flowers are on the same level subjectively." ...rolls eyes when no one's looking and thinks about the joyless high school teachers who put me off science...