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Not sure, but I always thought "hug of death" came from reddit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

• minitoar 7y ago
  Ah yes that is surely it.
• hwj 7y ago
  Previously, that was called "slashdotting". (Knowing such things makes me feel kind of old).