Obviously the comparison is not one to one, different time, different traffic, different event, and number of upvotes is not the main measure of importance. Th

Obviously the comparison is not one to one, different time, different traffic, different event, and number of upvotes is not the main measure of importance. That said, this is pretty big. OpenAI is a wildly successful company and as CEO Sam Altman is one of the big players in that. Not only was he fired, but he was fired unexpectedly and very publicly, this rarely happens. Usually companies try to prevent the media storm that is happening right now by quietly moving people to less important roles and or they “want to spent more time with family” or “are looking for another challenge”. So it’s not just the firing of the ceo of one of, if not the most, successful startups of this time, it’s completely unexpected, and the wording suggests something really big has happened or will be happening, or the board is making reckless decisions, which would be newsworthy on its own. Not having all the information makes people wonder what’s going on adding to the attention as we all speculate on what’s going on and how it is going to change things. Another factor in this is that a lot of startups and companies rely on OpenAI making it directly relevant to a lot of people, especially those on this website.