What's the difference between what you propose and the (PGP) web of trust?
WOT: "The owner of this key is Joe Doe as confirmed by Susi Dusi and Lars Lampert".
What I mean: "The ownder of this key has a popularity of 23 (as can be seen on chain) and a karma of 75 (as calculated from my personal social graph or interests and on chain data)".
Looking at a Bitcoin address you can see that the owner of that address owns at least X bitcoin. But you don't know who he is. This is what I propose for popularity and karma.
I think it should go one step further - if Google determines a link is a Apple ID phishing link it just silently redirects it to Apple’s real ID login page. Anything that presents a barrier that you can apparently solve is going to be bypassed.
The largest providers could register their login page look and feel with the biggest browsers and nobody would be allowed to mimic them.
Lol, amazon would in a heartbeat declare any page which has two input fields and a button as a 'login page' (regardless of the actual styling).