I often see the the term "parabolic" used on r/AskEconomics in a way that I don't see in my work in academic economics (compare search results on the forum, here, vs on google scholar, here). Why does this happen? Is there some meme or youtube channel that is using this term to describe economic trends? Do questioners actually think that the there are parabolic curves involved? Why isn't "exponential" (or, "hyperbolic") used - terms that are much more common in research and much more theoretically and empirically likely?

For another example, consider the search terms on gscholar for