This is weirdly common. My favorite is an example of the inverse problem.

A Star Trek VHS box set came out before Star Trek VI was released, and afterwards they tried to make it work with the same spine pattern, to decidedly mixed results (and then they did it *again*, but gave up that time):

You're doing the Prophets' work.

Yes! 😀🎮📺

Media piracy is an offense that's easy to do a lot of, hard to conceptualize the victims of, and near-impossible to get caught for, so naturally it's ideally-suited to people who talk revolution but have never so much as spit on an investment banker.

I learned about this recently!

I fell in love with it as a production concept, so I started (mis?)using a related term, "wandelprobe" for game prototypes where I step though gameplay events and triggers to see how multiple systems work together without actually playing the game.

I should have known I would be the 100th person with this reply.

I don't hate Rogue One, but having done what everyone did and watched it right after seeing the finale of Andor, it's clear that Andor makes Rogue One *worse*.

In the shadow of that haircut, at least.

And people will misremember it: "they walked it back because they got caught!"

Literally this exact story happened with Adobe. No one has learned anything.

Meanwhile, the true rage-worthy things corporations get away with are either too boring to write about or benefit users enough to be ignored.

People would like to think that the paranoia driving these overreactions is earned, but it's also self-reenforcing from the last one.

Whenever the next scandal emerges, whether founded or unfounded its plausibility will be fueled by "remember when they started using your emails to train AI?!"