Has the Internet resulted in people not outgrowing things?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

When I was a teenager, it was pretty uncommon to find people my age now who were into things I was really into, like my "scene" music and video games. But now not only am I still into those things, there are plenty of other people my age who still are too...in fact at this point people I would consider olds back then probably outnumber teenagers now in being fans of said things. So why?

Now I know someone will make the smart alleck point that people my age also grew up with those things, but that was also true when I was a teenager. If we're talking about say 15 years ago, that means 30 years ago was 15 years ago at the time. Video games and scene music most certainly DID exist 30 years ago.

But yeah I'll attribute it to the Internet and new economic and social factors, such as people not buying houses anymore, staying in urban areas, and starting families much later.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I find how the Internet has changed punk culture to be kind of amazing. Think of punk in the days of "California Uber Alles"...and consider that today "punks" are typically people with white collar jobs who are huge hacks for the Democratic Party and liberal causes who obsess over political correctness and Tumblr-style buzzwords, have non-negligible odds of being evangelical Christians and who go to shows where people on stage give sobbing and tear filled personal testimonies between songs with "positive and uplifting" lyrics with a "message of hope and anti-violence".

That is the direct descendant of this.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I wonder how Sid Vicious and Darby Crash would react if you created a time machine, went back in time, and brought them to the present day and they learned that 15 years after their deaths their musical successors were doing things like writing songs about feeling guilty about staring at a girl's ass or songs that concluded with a two minute outro where some guy sobs about how he feared his actions as a teenager would result in death by STDs.