Talk:rabbit hole
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Rfv-sense "Following YouTube channels toward extremism" - both quotes are from the same book, and the second quote appears to be coining the term. Needs to be distinct from sense 5 ("A time-consuming tangent or detour"), which the first quote could just as easily apply to. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:38, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
- Down the rabbit hole in the sense of entering a vast, real but unexplored world, one that is hard to disentangle oneself from once entered, predates the Internet and social media.[1][2][3] Senses 4 and 5 are more specific instances of this sense. I doubt that sense 5 originated as an extension of sense 4. --Lambiam 11:56, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
RFV-failed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 13:56, 28 July 2023 (UTC)