When that thing you just heard about is suddenly everywhere

I’m not sure the name for this phenomenon is appropriate. The Baader-Meinhof-Group was a terrorist cell* in Germany in the 70s/80s that murdered 34 people and injured many more.

That’s like calling the slowly ripping off a plaster so that it hurts the Mengele Effect.

*a real one, not the post-9/11 inflationary used term for everyone like petty thiefs or copyright-infringers