The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is when you never noticed something or saw something before, and then you see it everywhere.
For example say you see a chipmunk in an area you never noticed them before, and now you just see chipmunks everywhere.
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I just woke up from a dream where this happened. I had read this post yesterday. So thank you
Omg this has a name?! It’s one of my favorite things to happen lol
Okay so uh…back when I had a really tough assignment and I didn’t wanna study for it and I had just one day left. I was talking to a girl on Facebook about not doing my assignment and she sent me something that she uses to write her homework, well I looked it up and it worked brilliantly, I was able to submit my assignment in time with zero effort.
Next week everyone was using chatgpt for assignments
I experienced it pretty profoundly when taking a plant systematics and identification course. I had always loved plants as a gardener, so the added knowledge of general plant anatomy lit a fire in my brain.
Now when I would learn a new plant, I would notice it everywhere, even out of the corner of my eye while driving at speed on a highway.
I’m still a slut for the thrill of learning a new plant.
I recently learned about how often people say “in front of” It’s constant and sticks out to me. I mean, it’s very useful syntax. Also “just like” is something I’m guilty of. It’s almost like a verbal comma for people
Happens all the time when I learn new words. Suddenly that word is everywhere and it never occurred to me that I didn’t know its meaning.
I will probably see Baader-Meinhof pop up all over the place in the coming days.
Haha. You’re welcome.
That’s happening with the word “nuance” with me
What was wrong with the old ance, that’s what I want to know.
Your aunts don’t like being called old.
To be fair, I think “nuance” is genuinely being used a lot more lately because there’s so much backlash against the black-and-white discourse that dominated the internet last decade.
As long as it’s properly used, but for me, that’s a discussion for a later date
Wilhelm scream. It’s in everything. It’s memorable in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, but it’s in Soul Plane too.
I’ve watched far too many hours of sitcoms, because I’m recognizing a specific laugh that gets re-used over and over. It’s by far the worst on How I Met Your Mother (where I first noticed it). They’ll repeat the same laugh 2-3 times within the same episode. It’s a specific high-pitched laugh that almost sounds like the person is inhaling while laughing rather than exhaling. HIMYM doesn’t use a live audience so they re-use the same laughs for the entire run of the show.
I can’t watch anything with a laugh track anymore. Growing up I knew it was there, but I never actually noticed it. Now it’s so jarring and fake.
The ONLY show I can watch with a laugh track is “How I Met Your Mother,” and I think it’s because instead of using an actual track, they microphoned an audience who watched the show on a screen and recorded their real laughter.
That ‘70s Show too, it fits perfectly in that show for me. I hate it elsewhere, even if it’s a live studio audience… it ruins the pacing of a show for me.
I absolutely refuse to watch something with a laugh track as well.
“Those are dead people laughing”
Not even Father Ted?
Haven’t seen it, sorry.
It’s worth the laugh track 😁
Car. Its always the cars. Parents have a new car and OMG WHY DOES EVERYONE ELSE HAVE THE SAME CAR?
(Are people spying on us? Are they trying to imitate/mock us? 👀)
Off-topic here, but for those already familiar with the history of the Red Army Faction, this is such a bad misnomer. (It assumes that someone has never heard those weird sounds before. And/or know the story.)
You’re right. It is off topic
I couldn’t recall the name, but was explaining this effect to my son the other day. He was talking about the show The Good Place and joking that people seemed to now often be doing what the show was teaching us not to do, and that the writers must been good at seeing where the world was headed. I explained to him how it was actually commentary on the state of the world at the time, now that he was aware of it, he saw how prevalent it was.
Usually when you buy a car you will start seeing those cars everywhere.
I never have because my current car was a total flop LMAO
And my car before that was a Prius, sooooooo
Serial Experiments Lain. Never heard of it before last year, now I keep seeing it referenced weekly. It’s a good show though, holds up well today.
and you don’t seem to understand…
If that’s the name of the show, then i can’t tell if you’re serious or a smartass lol
A while back I set out to watch the entire Disney Animated Canon. (Not in a binge-y way, like a movie per week.) When I reached Frozen II and started looking up trivia about it, I read that the four note sequence Elsa keeps hearing calling to her is something a lot of composers like to reference: Dies Irae.
A couple other examples were named and it reminded me that I had sort of noticed this once before; I remember playing Aria of Sorrow and noticing that the Clock Tower theme had those four notes repeating in the background and I kept hearing “making Christmas making Christmas”. I had thought it was a coincidence at the time but now knew they were both making the same allusion. Neat.
Cut to a few years in the future, Dies Irae is my fucking Number 23. It’s EVERYWHERE. I can’t escape it.
Wow I had no idea, that’s fricking cool
I was under the impression that it’s meant to set the tempo, but now that you mention it, Linkin Park has used it, The Halloween theme, I think Danny Elfman likes that too. Especially when he’s doing something with Tim Burton
ALPRs. I thought where I lived wasn’t that likely to have them. Now that I’ve seen what to look for, I’m noticing they are already everywhere.
I bought a car early last year that an odd grey gloss/non-metallic colour. Since then I’ve been seeing a lot of different vehicles in an identical colour across multiple manufacturers. It’s trippy because I swear I’d never seen the colour before (obviously I just hadn’t noticed it).
There could be a logical explanation for the chipmunks. They are more active at different times of the year, and maybe there happened to be a prolific family of chipmunks near you this year.
