Have you ever seen those silly internet campaigns where someone is like "Write your senator, I even have an example letter for you!" and then you see replies like "Thanks, it's hard to word this on my own"? Couldn't it just as easily be something like that? They saw someone talking about it online, and just decided to use that wording because they aren't good at writing things on their own?

Why can't it be something like that NYT? Why is it immediately government behind it without any proof? Same with like, Tiktok video trends where people do the same dance or say the same words as a joke, maybe it's like that?

And of course, how do you even know that the fake ones weren't trolls or spam bots that copy trending posts and topics to look real?