“They’re taking something that is a relatively routine way of describing something - people do, in fact, die unexpectedly - and then by assigning a hashtag to it, they aggregate all of these incidents in one place.” “It’s kind of in-group language, kind of a wink wink, nudge nudge,” said Renee DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. The phrase’s explosion began with the late November debut of an online “documentary” by the same name, giving power to what experts say is a new and damaging shorthand. The use of “died suddenly” - or a misspelled version of it - has surged more than 740% in tweets about vaccines over the past two months compared with the two previous months, the media intelligence firm Zignal Labs found in an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. The 32-year-old actress who died from bacterial infection complications. The 18-year-old unvaccinated bull rider who died from a rare disease. There’s the 37-year-old Brazilian television host who collapsed live on air because of a congenital heart problem.
Using the hashtag #diedsuddenly, online conspiracy theorists have flooded social media with news reports, obituaries and GoFundMe pages in recent months, leaving grieving families to wrestle with the lies. But those facts didn’t matter online, where Anastasia was swiftly added to a growing list of hundreds of children, teens, athletes and celebrities whose unexpected deaths and injuries have been incorrectly blamed on COVID-19 shots.
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