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?

  • EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Been around since the 70s and both anal and avocados have been popular and held in high regard my entire life.

    Nothing has changed for either.