This seems like an example of trying to harness the cloud of doom. (In that case the attempt was transparent enough not to work; examples that actually did work would of course be hard to establish shared beliefs about.) The cloud of doom is the breakdown of shared discourse due to collapse of trust in common definers of canonical reality. It’s harnessed by an organization directly trying to claim credit for being canonical with officialness theater like verification numbers, in a way that’s couldn’t even plausibly slightlyalleviate the underlying problem.
This seems like an example of trying to harness the cloud of doom. (In that case the attempt was transparent enough not to work; examples that actually did work would of course be hard to establish shared beliefs about.) The cloud of doom is the breakdown of shared discourse due to collapse of trust in common definers of canonical reality. It’s harnessed by an organization directly trying to claim credit for being canonical with officialness theater like verification numbers, in a way that’s couldn’t even plausibly slightly alleviate the underlying problem.