This reminds me how Several friends a few months back suddenly collectively started acting like they had no idea who bossmanjack was despite making references to him constantly. I say "acting like" but it's more like some actual skinwalker dementia type shit and not stuff like purposefully misspelling or mispronouncing a name from popular pop culture shit everyone's heard of to fuck with people.
If it makes things any mor clear This weird shit also somehow lined up a few months after they got bit by the "TRUMP IS GONNA KILL ALL MINORITIES" bug despite for years making fun of the people that said that. They aren't like elderly people with fucking dementia I don't know if it's a combo of trying to keep up appearances to climb social ladders or what but jesus fuck it was horrible to witness people start responding to a thing they already told ME about as something they never knew about. Not just those guys, it's a LOT of people in my life that have gotten involved with parroting shit from some political narrative. Some even did that shit with DSP too, though I knew about him long before bossmanjack.