Talk:covidiot

RFV discussion: March 2020
&mdash; surjection &lang;?&rang; 00:19, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedied. With fewer than 500 raw ghits, no reason to think this will catch on enough to be a hot word, let alone still be in use next year. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:40, 17 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I see way more than 500 Ghits, and it seems to have entered mainstream media, e.g. Daily Mail article here: . Equinox ◑ 22:41, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow, the same search I used is now giving me 1.2 million ghits. It's almost as if attestation of this word is growing exponentially — wonder why that could be... —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 22:52, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * In permanently archived sources, it still appears mostly in headlines (such as the article that Equinox gave a link to) or in mentions talking about the use of the term. I did add three cites that actually used the term in the body of the article. Also, I see that Einstein2 added a number of cites to the citations page. That gives us a March start date for the term (for hotword checking). Kiwima (talk) 23:25, 2 April 2020 (UTC)