Only cranks look for angels now although almost everybody did not long ago. There was something miraculous in the unanimous consensus: few denied an angel sighting, nobody convincingly, and no forgery went far. When an angel posted on a thread the strange perfection of their words was as undeniable as the mystery of where they came from. An AI whispering coyly from beyond the veil of Singularity? A human mind elevated by technology or mutation? Aliens? Or literal angels, why not?
While the sightings continued they obsessed a billion. When they stopped the billion drifted away. Angels had come to speak ---in the one place where all humans spoke--- words of superhuman subtlety but clear intent and, after calling for help against something too big for even them to squeeze into human language, they had gone elsewhere or just fallen silent.