Dat is de Nederlandstalige interpretatie, sommigen gebruiken liever de Engelse (originele) betekenis:
Rage:
A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze: when torn jeans were all the rage.
To spread or prevail forcefully: The plague raged for months.
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult]
Hype:
Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial.
Exaggerated or extravagant claims made especially in advertising or promotional material: “It is pure hype, a gigantic PR job” (Saturday Review).
An advertising or promotional ploy: “Some restaurant owners in town are cooking up a $75,000 hype to promote New York as ‘Restaurant City, U.S.A.’” (New York).
Something deliberately misleading; a deception: “ [He] says that there isn't any energy crisis at all, that it's all a hype, to maintain outrageous profits for the oil companies” (Joel Oppenheimer).
tr.v. hyped, hyp·ing, hypes
To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims: hyped the new book by sending its author on a promotional tour.
n : blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo, hoopla, plug]
Een duidelijk verschil.