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Call it then Berenstain Effect then

• smeej 4y ago
  I had heard about this effect (whatever you want to call it) a few years ago, but I remember things as the evidence shows they happened (ironically, with the exception of Mandela specifically, but I remember it differently than the group of others), so I had generally chalked it up to "when faulty memory meets Reddit." Recently, though, I'm running into a weird one. In the last two months, I have encountered multiple incidents where people are either capitalizing "the Internet," or writing about why it's mainstream enough now that we don't need to capitalize "Internet." In my timeline, no one, and I mean NO ONE, had been capitalizing "internet" for at least fifteen years, and it was only really old people who did for five. It looks ridiculous to me even to see it. I can't account for this change by any normal means, and it's been really eerie!
  • jcims 4y ago
    That sounds more like Baader-Meinhoff. Which I just had to look up earlier this week for the first time in probably a decade. xD (I’m one of those old heads that still capitalize it btw)
• someweirdperson 4y ago
  The I am your father, Luke - effect.