@Anarchtopus Mid 20s here. No, it is objectively true that the internet has been severely compromised and deprecated, including basic services like google search and google images. I was taught in school how to do advanced searches like '-query' to exclude search results but that seems to no longer work, or at least any time I've tried to use it in the last two years it didn't. I am increasingly needing to go to the second page of google to find the wikipedia article for things where the first is all shit for sale. Finding information on stuff like caring for pets or home care or medical matters is now impossible to get off google because all the search results I find are obviously untrustworthy AI garbage (eg. "To get rid of Silverfish in your home is very easy! What you have to do is remove things they like, and what they like is Moisture" like yeah bro I don't care if you're probably correct I'm not getting my info from shit obviously written by a bot).
I can no longer type in 'x fanart' and find tons of images of interesting fanart I instead get loads of garbage results like samples and blurry cut up banners found from some romanian gaming article or something and I have to go to specific sites like boorus to get a comparable density of relevant stuff.
When I open social media that I don't normally use like twitter or youtube shorts I'm immediately bombarded by far right, incel, nazi, pro-russia, pro-israel horseshit. It's depressing.