The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

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    10 months ago

    The general population entering internet and companies trying to take over to monetize internet.

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        9 months ago

        In my defence, internet was setup to share information, openly. That’s broken now.

        It’s ruined as well, but you’re right, semantics is important.