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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.

Omg this has a name?! It's one of my favorite things to happen lol

Okay so uh...back when I had a really tough assignment and I didn't wanna study for it and I had just one day left. I was talking to a girl on Facebook about not doing my assignment and she sent me something that she uses to write her homework, well I looked it up and it worked brilliantly, I was able to submit my assignment in time with zero effort.

Next week everyone was using chatgpt for assignments

I experienced it pretty profoundly when taking a plant systematics and identification course. I had always loved plants as a gardener, so the added knowledge of general plant anatomy lit a fire in my brain.

Now when I would learn a new plant, I would notice it everywhere, even out of the corner of my eye while driving at speed on a highway.

I’m still a slut for the thrill of learning a new plant.

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.

Usually when you buy a car you will start seeing those cars everywhere.

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.

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.

I recently learned about how often people say “in front of” It’s constant and sticks out to me. I mean, it’s very useful syntax. Also “just like” is something I’m guilty of. It’s almost like a verbal comma for people

Off-topic here, but for those already familiar with the history of the Red Army Faction, this is such a bad misnomer. (It assumes that someone has never heard those weird sounds before. And/or know the story.)

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).

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.

https://deflock.me/what-is-an-alpr

A while back I set out to watch the entire Disney Animated Canon. (Not in a binge-y way, like a movie per week.) When I reached Frozen II and started looking up trivia about it, I read that the four note sequence Elsa keeps hearing calling to her is something a lot of composers like to reference: Dies Irae.

A couple other examples were named and it reminded me that I had sort of noticed this once before; I remember playing Aria of Sorrow and noticing that the Clock Tower theme had those four notes repeating in the background and I kept hearing “making Christmas making Christmas”. I had thought it was a coincidence at the time but now knew they were both making the same allusion. Neat.

Cut to a few years in the future, Dies Irae is my fucking Number 23. It’s EVERYWHERE. I can’t escape it.

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.

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.

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.