[doc_gunthrop]

Joke aside, what you're describing sounds more like the Baader-Meinhof effect[0].

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_effect

[dmix]

“X big website is down” just hit HN the last few weeks and people on our normally highly rational news site were convinced it was a connected conspiracy.