It's more a matter of online communities making things worse. Basically a component of the era we live in where mental illness is celebrated and not treated.
Normally this shit would've been mocked and shamed into oblivion, and anyone that might have adopted these fetishes got mental health treatment, and thus didn't. Now, damaged people are being encouraged to be damaged, and all the cracks are showing to everyone around them.
These degenerates need some caulk.