I had, yes. My joke in response was that maybe the anime had caused the decline (I had missed that your original post was implying causation; I'd assumed you were merely noting a correlation).
And the community I linked is all about correlations between unrelated events--that is to say, all about fun coincidences just like the one your post referenced. Admittedly, the community is a bit dead now, but that's why I said it could use your post.