A brief timeline of events:
-Early Internet: Hehe, lets post dumb questions on yahoo for lulz
-Always on connections become the norm: Better start displaying irreverent behaviour as a smokescreen
-PRISM leak: Wow, good thing I took precautions, but why the heck is all of society starting to behave like that's normal?
-2016: Okay, shits getting serious, time to see if everything I've collected means anything.
-8 years of yanking the "puppet strings" wildly left and right: Okay, yes, these assholes are literally following me around, and I can only guess as to why (there are some VERY uncharitable candidates).