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      with some people unwittingly being mired in something and being led to believe that it is far more popular and normal than what it is, based entirely on their ever-increasing exposure to that thing

      Very apt description, thank you.

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          I would think this analogy is a bridge to far, as both (1) people are free to not participate in the case of specific online communities, and (2) prison population isn’t a great representation of the total population.

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