How ideas spread among groups and populations

[Analogous]

This classic story has a good description of how ideas spread and go viral.
Written long before the invention of modern electronics, internal and social media.
It is also a scathing mockery of social hypocrisy
It can also be applied to certain aspects of Audiophile community’s behaviour

https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/storiespdf/the-emperors-new-clothes.pdf