I consider them newer not in terms of age, but evolution. I consider it an almost zombie like outbreak. We used to have newbs that understood they were newbs. Now, we have newbs that think they play a toon to 60 and think they know everything, because some PL'd guy whos been playing for 6 months told them something that made their pants moist. Now, the outbreak has gone so far, that if one person says AMG NT'S PWNZ!LOLiwinlol666111!! and then we get a rush of triple noobs, who later become disenchanted with NT's because they are not as cool as they were impressed upon, only to jump on the next big thing for the same reasons. They do it out of reflex these days. Its what happens when you get enough people being loud about being stupid, sooner or later people start believing the stupid without the benefit of a little personal research and experience.
Then these people go and post on balance forums, and then a quantum singularity opens up and swallows the smart people's will to fight.
And then they call us bitter and jaded (tm).