See you're ideological framework and siloing has you convinced that "naive and impressionable youth who stumbled into reprehensible ideologies and psychological predators online." en-mass. I guarantee you believe that large numbers of kids are identifying as cats and dogs, and there are cat litter boxes at high schools, right? Serious question. It's just exactly the same echo chamber that is revealed when you talk to modern-day American Marxist-Leninist who believe Stalin and the Soviet Union were great. It's the same mindset even though the conclusions are different, but reality is waaay more complicated and nuanced.
In high school I was into punk rock, I had a mohawk and leather jacket with an upside down cross painted on the back. A half dozen of my friends did the same and are in the year book like that. One friend dressed in chain-mail. We heard the shame shit back then, and even things like Tipper Gore's PMRC was supposed to stop music making kids killers, and anti-social satanists. My mom thought I was a satan worshiper because she watched scare shows like Oprah and Phil Donahue. To me the biggest thing that came out of the covid lockdowns is kids are even more tied into screens than ever before, which I believe is a bad thing. My own kids is a prime example.
Reading other posts you've made , you have used the terms like "sexual deviants". Can you define to me when you write that, and does that includes gays, bisexuals, polys, etc.?