The Bluesky post that called the AI industry's PR crisis self-inflicted circulated not because the sentiment was new but because the source was legible. The author's phrasing — "writ large," collective rather than directed solely at OpenAI — positioned the speaker as someone with enough industry proximity to distribute blame accurately. That positioning is the point. Criticism that comes fluently from inside the ecosystem cannot be attributed to fear or ignorance. It is the assessment of a peer, and peers are believed.