An Odd Pattern I've Noticed Concerning All My Ranked Losses

To start things off, I'm going to get it outta the way that I am Silver V. Also, this post is not about "Elo Hell", nor will it be about "False Claims of where I feel I should be rank-wise". This is solely to describe a sort of pattern I've noticed concerning most (I'd say about 82%) of my losses in Ranked. That being said, I fully accept that the other 18% was due to my own performance. Either being caught out, blah blah blah.

Moving on, the pattern I've seem to come across in my Ranked games (the ones I lose, that is) is that I've lost almost all of them because of a single toxic player on my team. Like, not the simple "such noob, much wow" toxic player or the simple "oh my god, so bad" toxic player. No. I'm talking about the "I'm going to write an essay describing what you did wrong with as much detail as possible without giving you any creative advice on how to not make that same mistake again" toxic player.

I can no longer count the number of times I've pressed the report button against some toxic player, within the past month and a half. (And, yes, each report was a legit report with "In-Game Chat" evidence). I've had that "Riot Tribunal Message" pop up on my screen to thank me so many times, that I legit feel I am the Tribunal's "Undercover Agent" now.

So, given this pattern, I would like to ask a simple question: Why does it seem like the Toxicity level rose to the highest levels this season as compared to previous seasons? Why are people so negative? Am I running into "Previously Golds/Plats/Diamonds" whom are trying to climb again, but cant and blame their Silver teammates? Or are people just naturally negative about all of their games?

Like, I can't say I've never been toxic, and I can admit that I've had my fair share of toxic moments, myself. However, this season, I've practically been "dead" to the chat system, using it only for "mia calling" and "praise" (or, as Sky Williams calls it, "Sucking some D***").

I just really wonder why so many people are so darn toxic 99.9% of the time?