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you know what they say --- the more humans are connected, the more the world starts to look the same.
travel is classically the cause of this. the opening of international travel made it easier for people from other countries to visit different cultures. this mixing of ideas makes people take ideas they learned in foreign places back to their home towns where they implement them. the way commerce works is that a successful business (say, McDonalds) in one country is able to extend its hand into other countries. now every country has a McDonalds and a Subway and a Starbucks.
every place starts to look more and more the same.
this is also my favorite theory about time travel: that if time travel were to actually exist, then suddenly every year, every period throughout time will look the same. because why wouldn't a popular musician from the year 3032 travel back in time and tour in the 1800s? and likewise, why wouldn't a popular chef who was born in 1582 travel to the future to prepare their exotic steaks for patrons in 2017?
as the world becomes more "connected", everything starts to look the same as everything else.
or maybe we were never so unique and we are just now discovering it through the internet that allows us to find other like-minded people?
Hundreds of years ago, people would go through life only knowing others they'd met in person. This meant that most people would only be able to meet like a few hundred others in their life (unless you have some rare special job that took you traveling around the world). In that world, people would have all seemed unique as we'd all have met fewer people who were similar. >

This is giving me "we live in a simulation" conspiracy nutcase vibes >

Or r/im14andthisisdeep >

Lol I can tell why you think that way but also a lot of you are a lot older and got to grow up with your own interests. Me being younger simply indicates that I get to see daily how everyone seems to like the exact same thing and speak the exact same way. 
I am not hating on social media I love it there would be no way for me to connect otherwise but I also firmly believe its led to the younger kids i.e. us having no difference of opinion on anything at all. >

I see people do that daily too, I'm on the internet as well. My point is, I only grew up with my own interests to the extent that they were available, i.e. a good deal less than now.
I think there's still a huge amount of difference of opinion. The internet is awash with heated arguments.
Every generation has its own trends, its own style and slang. The internet spreads them faster, but they were always there. I wouldn't assume that young people sticking rigidly to these things is an indication of a growing lack of individuality. 
Adherence to norms (whether as part of an in-group or out-group) is what young people do. They're forming their support networks outside of their family units, and finding their place in the world. Acceptance means everything in this stage of life. When that wears off I'm sure they'll find that the internet is there to cater to every interest they could possibly have, and most will be more confident in their own identities. >

And that's why a platform like Reddit sorts out all those similar shared interests so that one person who commented first, on a song, an article, a movie, or news in general, can remain individual?
Sorry. Individuality is a person having their own thoughts, being their own, whether they comment on something of the same as another person. It's how becomes popular, and if, a single person can't cope because yet another person has spoken in the same context as they, or heard the same song as they, or wore the same clothing as they. Then get that spoilt brat the fuck out of here.
A world we all live in DO NOT evolve around a single person. Especially, when it comes to matters of socialism. >

Everyone is unique, but not everyone is truly special. Social Media wanted to unify, but it ended up scattering us. 
It’s beginning to look like a lot of the tech lords’s dreams were a bit uninformed and delusional.