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.
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.
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.
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.
I absolutely refuse to watch something with a laugh track as well.
“Those are dead people laughing”
Usually when you buy a car you will start seeing those cars everywhere.
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 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.
