This could also be the baader-meinhof phenomenon (also known as the frequency illusion)

I’ve definitely done this to help get through email responses

Thanks for doing this! I’ve really enjoyed the early comics so far!

Give it a couple years… and then a few more.

There’s a lot of references to this, but it looks like there’s not a known source. Interestingly, the first reference to this tablet was from 1908. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/