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What are some unrealistic fictional tropes that have become realistic because people internalized them from fiction? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For example [vaguely]: writer creates a character who behaves like X, despite nobody actually behaving like X in real life. Then characters behaving like X become a wide-ranging trope. People in the real world begin to think it’s normal to behave like X, and subsequently start actually behaving like X themselves.

Any actual examples of this phenomenon happening?

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

You focused on the trees and lost the forest.

OP's question was about people actin a particular way that originally seemed 'unrealistic.'

Whatever the actual music was, it was McLaren et al that got people wearing purple mohawks and using safety pins for jewelry.

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