Why I'm Spending My Lunch Hour Today With The Door Closed And The Music Turned Up So My CoWorkers Can't Hear The Screaming

As far as I can tell, the biggest single factor driving the current shift and growth in diversity in genre readers has been the invention of the Internet. 

Yes, because before then we had only our telephones, letters, playgrounds, lunch hours in the cafeteria, detentions, D&D sessions in our houses/local comic book stores, libraries, weekend shows at the movie theater, and war drums created from the bloody skulls of vanquished colonists white people we shanked behind the gym to use to communicate with each other about this whole genre thing.

I was in a great mood before I opened my email.