awww facebook... so you guys are that kind of crazy 
Well, yes. There just isn't enough validation on old school boards, I suppose.
But it really was more of an implosion, just shy of 6 years ago, aka "The Great Seriousness of 2015," wherein many many old beefs all popped to the surface at once.
The simple fact is that everyone's discordia is different from everyone else's discordia, and after 13 years it just kinda went boom.