This is very interesting especially in the terms of what I think some call a "rabbit hole",

but we could be curious on how and why you saw misuse.

The OOO/"Speculative Realism" crowd are loony charlatans who make the current post-modern neo marxist politburo who runs the humanities parts of academia look downright sane.

My response to unironic OOO believers is that we must wage war on objects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism