it amazes me how people still think fiction doesn’t affect reality when about 90% of us ran like naruto without a second thought just because we saw him do it and thought it was cool
this is going to be the only valid reply because that’s the reason I did it
for a more pertinent example- the creators of the original 70s ‘star trek’ created wrist communicators for plot purposes so crew on the ground could still communicate with crew on the spaceship because writing
sometime in the early 80s a lot of actual scientists realized that sounded really cool and actually doable so lets create cellphones
then later people who read ‘hitchhikers guide’ realized we had 80% of what the hitchhikers guide was and made a kindle
Agatha Christie wrote mystery novels so precice she accurately predicted methods of poisoning that had not even happened yet, and her works are still used today to teach people how to diagnose poisonings bot malign and accidental. heck her understanding of toxicology was so on point she proposed antidotes for poisons made from poisons with opposite effects, allowing patients to be stabilized after otherwise fatal doses
lets not forget the OG himself HG Welles who pulled stuff out of his ass like submarines, cross-continent flight, space travel, eccetera and later people realized that his fever dreams were something you could actually do with enough math and engineering
in the late 40s
Frances Glessner Lee
started making dollhouses that contained crime scenes, only partially a
hobby she was creating fantasy mysteries to puzzle people as there was
no specific solution to the crime scenes she created. these dollhouses
are still used to train detectives today and are considered to be the
birth of modern forensics, solving thousands of crimes
hell, someone read the 1911 story ‘
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle’, which was largely schlock and realized a gun that shoots electricity sounds pretty awesome so made the TAZER, and the E and R still stand for ‘electric rifle’
and thats not counting the uncounted human moments when someone decided to do or not do something based on childhood memories of movies that shaped their personality, decided to do something based on a song that inspired them, got the courage by remembering a well written superhero moment, or some part of their soul that asked what their favorite muppet would think about their actions
Me, applying a protective Gay Barrier™ before heading out to meet up with the Straights:
The funniest thing about straight people being mad about this post is that it wasn’t even meant to be a diss to straight people; it was more of a joke of having to insulate ourselves in heterosexual settings from constantly having our sexuality invalidated by things straight people don’t even notice because the world caters to them. Like: “Welp! Time to deal with 17 new rom coms and toddlers wearing ‘Ladies Man’ onesies while hearing ‘I don’t hate gay people, but why does everything they do have to be ABOUT being gay?”
You gotta build a barrier for that shit so you’re not constantly going off on straight people in public, cause they get sensitive. Case in point: the replies on this post.
All of these memes express different ideas and are used for different purposes, leading to a more nuanced expression of the idea/statement:
“Double D’s Book of Facts” aggressively presents the statement as truth.
“Peter Parker Reading a Book” is a self-contained comic rather than emphasizing the statement to the audience, with the book-reader being the target of the statement rather than the audience.
“Change my mind” is confrontational and implies the statement is deeply held and controversial, sometimes satirizing the statement itself.
“you guys are just mean” is frank and expresses that the opposing opinion is irrational.
