There was no theory until my account was rate-limited for posts suggesting that people not use databases on Kubernetes. These were ruled too "tedious" by dang; they rate-limited my account and marked my post at [0] as off-topic. Maybe I just missed the part of the guidelines that said not to be too dry when discussing container orchestration.
It's not really self-fulfilling if it's already happened; I think that's just called "information about an event".
I think my view that humans are imperfect (yes, even the super-fancy humans at YC, who do have a horse in this race as investors in Docker Inc.) and will censure things they dislike is plenty justifiable given the events. That's especially the case if these people are being pressured to take that action by other high-status individuals.
For the record, dang has explicitly disclaimed my theory, rather suggesting that asking people not to run their database in Kubernetes constitutes a flame war. I don't have the link to that handy but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find for an interested party.
The reader is free to ascribe motives as they see fit.
