in a sense it's a reference to Allocgate (a previous big breaking change to allocators in Zig), which was itself a reference to Watergate
by now it's a well worn/used trope to make -gate names for any scandal. But the distance in time (and culture) to the original Watergate scandal is growing, so it seems less impactful now.
Weird that anyone is downvoting this, as it’s a precisely correct answer.
It also deeply confuses international readers. Need to learn American history to to get an idea of what is being conveyed.
Evem not knowing the history of Watergate, it's a meme now. A few months ago in a spanish speaking country there was a case known as "Rolexgate": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolexgate