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why make a deadline instead of just doing it as you announce it?
by mnky9800n 4y ago
why make a deadline instead of just doing it as you announce it?
- IfOnlyYouKnew 4y agoBuilding some excitement may well increase the impact of any release, as does releasing it in installments. It may also lead to people coming clean in anticipation of being exposed, even if it ultimately doesn’t happen. Note how even Wikileaks partnered with traditional media, used teasers and split up large stories to maximize their impact.
- Joeboy 4y agoEither: 1) So that there can be co-ordinated coverage of it in the media / social media, and it doesn't just become a thing that's "in the public domain" but isn't news; 2) Because it's FUD. Confidently declaring that things are going to happen on certain dates is a really powerful thing (cf. millenarianism) I don't know which it is in this case.
- jdenning 4y agoAssuming this is real, I suspect the leaker is planning suicide shortly after the release (they said in the post that they were terminally ill)