I just think it's a little weird that out of all the terrible things Peterson has said people pick on him for one of the actual good pieces of advice he gave. Like yeah to most of us it's pretty fucking obvious advice but I've heard things that I wish I hadn't regarding the people whomst it wasn't obvious to.
I was naught but a wee lad at the time but I think the trend back then was more about looking dirty rather than being dirty. Like the jeans coming pre-torn with bleach splotches added at the factory.
the site got hacked and most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails but everyone pretty much already expected that so nobody actually cared and it's back to business as usual