pre 2023, it took real human effort to make shit up, and there was much less incentive for the amount of effort, and you could more easily guess what was made up by judging whether a human would go through the effort of making it up. these days it's literally anything, all the time, zero effort. you're right there's always been fake shit but it's more than half the posts on /r/all these days are misleading, wrong, or just fake