Nobody knows how to spell "led" anymore

"Lead" is a kind of metal.

The past tense of "to lead" is "led."

I have not seen a single instance of "led" being used correctly in at least three years.

I feel like we're going through one of those annoying shifts in the language like what happened with "literally," where a word changes spelling or meaning through sheer widespread misuse. This one is especially galling because it's three letters. People are gonna forget how to spell "cat" next.