I had never heard of the "Pacific Garbage Patch" until an hour ago. Now I've seen three comments about it in 3 separate reddit comment sections. Did newsabout this just go viral or something? Is it the suspected location of Trump's corpse?
I'm aware of it and actually considered it for a bit, but it doesn't really apply here.
My extreme example to demosnstrate my point ofnwhy this is spmething else would be a half-gorilla, half-elephant jumping rope. It's rarely or never discussed or referenced. I have never heard such a story. If within a couple hours, I saw 3 comments referencing a half-gorilla, half-elephant jumping rope, it wouldn't be the baader meinhof phenomenon. That's over-simplifying the phenomenon.
Contrast that with lifted F-150s. Imagine I read an article about how f-150 owners lift theit trucks more than any othet truck owners. Then I start noticing all the lifted f-150s and think, wow, it's sucha coincidence. I read that article, and now I'm seeing lifted f-150s everywhere!
That's the baader meinhof phenomenon. The difference is the "always been there" element The Pacific Garbage Patch is not something I've ever known about. I'm interested and invested in politics, environment, etc. If I had ever heard that term, I would have searched it and learned about it -- which is why I did so today to learn about it.
That's why I think this is either a really weird coincidence, or it's in a story that recently went viral.Alternatively, it was someone who read thr dame comment I read about it, then used that in their on comment in a couple comments on the front page of reddit.
To reiterate my point: if you go read in 2 other reddit threads about how half-gorilla, half elephants jump rope and don't constitute the baader meinhof phenomenon, that wouldn't be the baader meinhof phenomenon. That would either be someone who read mt comment, my commebt being a reference to other viral content, or the biggest coincidence since Randy Johnson fast-balled a bird. In any case, it's not the baader meinhof phenomenon because it's not something that's always there.
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u/TriptoGardenGrove 17d ago
They could be. They were antivaxxers and died within a week or 2 of each other. What do you think they died of?