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It started with three dots.
Just three harmless-looking dots on a half-loaded headline that detonated panic across social media like a digital bomb. A grainy image, red and yellow emergency fonts, and the unfinished phrase that froze millions of thumbs mid-scroll:
That was all it took.
From Mexico City to Miami, from family WhatsApp groups to X feeds, chaos erupted. Prayer chains from grandmothers. Celebration memes from teenagers. Conspiracy theories from uncles who hadn’t trusted a headline since 1988. People didn’t wait for facts. They didn’t wait for context. The human brain filled in the blank with the darkest possible ending.
“Takes his life.”
“Committed suicide.”
“Regime collapse.”
“End of an era.”
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