Lots of people seem to come up with it now. It's been two decades, and it's brought up by people who use it as an example in their other other agendas:
"look at y2k: we spent so much money, and nothing happened!" (so far, so good) "...therefore, if we hadn't, nothing would have happened anyway!!" (uh, based on...?) "...and it was all a massive scam, just like any massive present issue!!!" (ah, there's the underlying reason)
Why are you sceptical about this?