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.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    45 hours ago

    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? 👀)

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    610 hours ago

    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.

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    13 hours ago

    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.

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      711 hours ago

      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.

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        36 hours ago

        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.

      • @MutilationWave
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        I absolutely refuse to watch something with a laugh track as well.

        “Those are dead people laughing”

  • @ShovelDad
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    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.

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    39 hours ago

    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).

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    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.

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    414 hours ago

    Student driver or new driver stickers on cars. I swear 20% of the cars on the road in my area have them lately. That said, I do actually think in this case that there has been an increase in adoption of these stickers (possibly to try and hand waive bad behavior of the driver?) but when I first mentioned it to my husband, he blamed it on Baader-Meinhof.

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      114 hours ago

      I totally feel that. They’re all over the place here too. I don’t get what the point is

      • @[email protected]
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        612 hours ago

        Here it is the law that a Learner has an L sticker/magnet and New drivers have an N. Let’s others know to stay back a bit because they may need more time to complete a maneuvering or parking, or may forget certain road rules.

        • @proudblond
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          211 hours ago

          The ones I’m talking about are just bumper stickers. What’s the difference between a learner and a new driver in your jurisdiction?

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            29 hours ago

            Learner has to be with a fully licensed driver, New Driver is licensed to drive but has restrictions, that are removed after a year or so

            We do gave Student Driver stickers, but it is on trainer vehicles.

  • @Crackhappy
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    315 hours ago

    Usually it’s Baader-Meinhof whenever I forget about it.

  • themeatbridge
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    416 hours ago

    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.

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    215 hours ago

    The number 14, seriously, it’s everywhere

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      It’s a fun phenomenon, especially if discussing with New Age types who will start dropping numerology interpretations.

      If you can rein in an immediate “this is stupid bullshit and so are you” reflex, it’s interesting from an for-entertainment-purposes-only perspective.

      • @MutilationWave
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        311 hours ago

        Some friends and I that hung out in college had this with 11:11 on the clock. Felt like we’d look at the time and it would be 11:11 once or even both times every day.

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    During my last semester I learned about the 4 main educational philosophies, and now I’m doing a personality test in the back of my head whenever I meet someone who likes children

    • @MutilationWave
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      Please don’t do this to people. Yeah there are way too many pedophiles out there but you’re still so unlikely to meet one. Unless you go to church.