I thought you were going a different tack when I read rule 34 - That I think is more apropos to the article's intent - If something is interesting, someone is g

I thought you were going a different tack when I read rule 34 - That I think is more apropos to the article's intent - If something is interesting, someone is getting excited about it, and charging forward into fan art. Papers and news articles are unfortunately just real-world fan art.