The community got worse since I left, apparently

I had to stop playing League because of work and school: I would have been evicted from my home if I didn't take those two into account (due to being a working student, the financial aid and paycheck from work paid off my bills for a time). When I come back, I tell everyone that I haven't played in a while, and I come back to a slew of verbal abuse from my own team. This has happened in about 7 games I have played since I got back (I don't really use this account that often because I feel like I need to relearn the game, so I'm playing with one other friend, and it does show that I have lost a lot of the mechanics I learned when I was last playing).

Of the 15 or so I have played though, 7 have been verbally abusive players, while the remaining 8 have been in ARAM with a group of friends. I know 7 isn't a great number to run off of, but that's about half of the games I have played being verbally abusive. I'm still planning on playing, but I feel like the community has gotten much more toxic since I was gone. Of those 7 games, I know for sure I had to report at least 2 people on my team for verbal abuse (such as "u fuking suck stop playing league dumbass) or other toxic behavior.

From what I have seen on the forums as well, people are complaining about the toxic community as a whole. I've still gone through the normal things I remember when combating the toxicity (such as muting, reporting, etc). Though, one thing I noticed that was new is that pings are not muted anymore when you mute someone, which is something I remember from Season 4 up to Season 5 very vividly. Is there a way to mute the people who spam pings as well?