>>77932886Huh? The only "trend" that I can think off was that some pros played it online, and streamed themselves so they became kinda Internet celebrities. And then we had that saga of the chess master supposedly cheating with a vibrating butt plug... so it became a story everywhere, outside the chess world. But that was late 2022 and early 2023. Since mid-2023 I haven't thought about it at all.
