OffTopic: "Shenanigans" - is it just my imagination?

I believe I am seeing this EDIT: relatively uncommon? word in posts here quite frequently recently. Happenstance, or is some event behind its use?

To be fair, when it comes to ZFS and NAS servers, you can expect a lot of shenanigans…

HexOS will hopefully be shenanigan-free.

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I suspect that non-English speakers may like to pick up a nice-sounding word when they come across one.

That one sounds even more uncommon…

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Thanks for the helpful comment. You could very well be right!

What I find is that words and phrases come into common use (or “re-use”) as a result of popular culture or industry/occupation culture. I’m frequently intrigued to know the origin/initiation of the use.

I’m very familiar with “shenanigans” and was surprised to see it here in the forum several times, hence my question in this post.