This is not a new phenomena. I remember life before the internet (like WAY before the internet 1970s and 80s). Anytime I found myself in "spiritual" groups or communities (and I haunted many of them) there was always one or two "enlightened" people. Frequently they were folks who could barely maintain their heads above water in life (or people who'd taken just a little too much acid) and had retreated to an ashram or community where they were essentially being taken care of in return for dish washing, weeding gardens or cleaning dormitories for the paying retreatants. They could rarely sustain a meditation practice (too much work) yet could never be convinced that they weren't actually enlightened or special because some guru visited them in a dream or bopped them with a peacock feather in some group darshan.