Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?

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Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?

What Is The Origin Of That?

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I have read that it was influenced by German capitalization rules; all nouns are capitalized in German. But I never checked if that's true.

It is true. All nouns and of course the first word after beginning a new sentence are capitalised.

Source: I am german.

Oh, my bad, I have indeed confirmed that all nouns are capitalized in German... what I meant is that I'm not sure if that's the reason why English also does it (sometimes).

But thanks for the *confirmation! :)