After Scholze's blog post went viral, Quanta and Nature contacted the speaker, signaling that prominent people were taking an interest in the project.

“And the next thing we know, you know, Quanta was on the, you know, you know, and, and Nature was cal- calling me up. And I-- It's at this point I realized that we had arrived now that, you know, now the sort of the big league people were taking an interest.”