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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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? 👀)
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.
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”
Not even Father Ted?
Haven’t seen it, sorry.
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.
If that’s the name of the show, then i can’t tell if you’re serious or a smartass lol
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).
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
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
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.
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.
I totally feel that. They’re all over the place here too. I don’t get what the point is
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.
The ones I’m talking about are just bumper stickers. What’s the difference between a learner and a new driver in your jurisdiction?
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.
What?
What’s unclear about that statement?
Usually it’s Baader-Meinhof whenever I forget about 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.
Gilles Deleuze, once I learned about him for some reason. It was an odd experience.
The classic example is whenever my mom got a new car when I was a kid, looking for it in a parking lot, suddenly I’d see it everywhere.
The number 14, seriously, it’s everywhere
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.
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.
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
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.
Idk how i misspelled philosophy that bad
