Why did this sub go from "I don't want kid(s), just let me live" to "I'm gonna murder the next kid I see"?

This is a very frustrating sub right now, and it's frustrating because it DIDN'T USED TO BE THIS WAY!!!<br><br>When I joined, the sub was pretty much just people speaking out their decision to live childfree. There were posts like "I thought I wanted kids, but now I'm sure I don't!" And "I've always known I didn't want kids", and that was pretty much it.<br><br>Most people in the comment's would upvote and say things like "Respect to you!" or "Good for you!" (yes it was this cliché, and pretty warranted.) and "You're making the right decision". Now it just seems like a bunch of people highjacking the sub and using it to speak about how much they hate children, usually with the occasional (new) commentor defending children and saying we are all "immature, sad, barrens" who hate children for no reason, which just makes everything worse.<br><br>The sub is just filled to the brim with toxicity now. I literally can't look at it without feeling like I'm doing something wrong as a childfree person.<br><br>I can't say how long ago it was exactly when I first noticed a change, but it started slowly. I'm pretty sure I've spent most of this year consistently seeing more and more posts like "all kids are feral apes" and "my neighbour's kids won't stop talking" and shit like that. From what I remember, the comments to those posts used to be like "maybe keep them away from you" or "get earplugs". And now it's just "Murder them, and their parents too, and their friends too because they'll probably end up having kids as well". Like, what the FUCK?<br><br>It makes me sick to my stomach. I see people talking about how children are future generations, and we should care about them because of that, but I just can't bring myself to care and never could. I absolutely love children, but I don't want to be a parent. However, I do try my best to be kind to them and treat them nicely. And because of that, most of the kids I know love me. It's great, and I enjoy it. And because I'm not a parent, I get to pick and choose when I have to interact with them, and I can leave whenever I want.<br><br>I just don't get why almost everyone here is being so horrible to kids and parents. It doesn't make any sense and I would probably get much less if I went to a pro-parent chamber and said "I hate kids". I just don't get why this sub is like this, and it makes me very sad that it has to be like this.<br><br>I'm just gonna end this post off by saying that I love kids, and I wish we could all live in harmony. I'm just over this toxicity already, and I'm showing my younger cousins this sub to show them how people live different lives and how that's okay, and almost every post is shit like this.<br><br>EDIT: For those of you telling me it's the "internet as a whole" that's like this, sorry to say this but just because everyone else is doing something, doesn't make it okay. And just because it's "the times we're in", doesn't mean we just have to deal with it.