I blame it on the internet become less pedosexual friendly with each passing year. then I was a kid everyone on the internet was a pedophile or a groomer.
Discord is such a clusterfuck on any server bigger than like 20 people. IRCs only really lack the video and image sharing that discuck has. Skype was fine for voice chat but sadly microshit bought it and turned it into teams aka as garbage. Aol was fine for just DMing. Forums used to be good because it was about a topic instead of being a narcissism enabler. Maybe once discord goes public you might see something.