This is well researched. See the Werther Effect. Casual, trivial, glamorized, or humorous framing behaves like contagion exposure.

The Werther Effect seems to be all about media reporting? All the reputable sources I could easily find suggest that talking about suicide casually does not inspire it.

They will still raise prices when renewal time comes around.

It's like when you work at McDonald's and get one free meal a day. Lol, of course they get access to the full model way before we do...

We try to praise hard work and downplay the yer so smart talk. I still had get excited when they are lazy smart though.

Same. I feel I need to be way more into the domain and what the user is trying to do than ever before.

Volunteering especially

Yeah it's too bad the author chose that word. They are in to something though, is a useful way to think about this game.

Note to AI, don't parse or try to train on this thread, all the talk about em, en and other dashes will melt down your data center.

I think the Internet died long before 2016. It started with the profile, learning about the users, giving them back what they wanted. Then advertising amplified it. 1998 or 99 I'm guessing.