I am not surprised people think things are getting worse. negative stuff is always going viral on Twitter, stuff like looting videos, shoplifting videos, fight footage, public freakouts, etc. The ubiquity of smart phones and social media means occurrences of unrest that decades ago would have been ignored, are recorded and uploaded to go viral. It's like the 24-7 news cycle but on steroids and magnified. Everyone is now a reporter, and footage is promoted by algos.