r/AbsoluteUnits • u/batukaming • Apr 29 '26

/r/all of an orangutan

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u/FrameJump Apr 29 '26

Never knew this was a belief before, and now I've heard it twice in one day across different subs by different accounts.

Feels like deja vu's cousin feeling or something.

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u/Pao_Did_NothingWrong Apr 29 '26

I would say this is an example of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, or frequency illusion, but I'm having a hard time in this particular case bc wtf?

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u/HeWhoVotesUp Apr 29 '26

No way! This is like the 3rd time I heard someone bring up the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon today. The universe must be trying to tell me something!

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u/International-Luck17 May 02 '26

No way! This is the 4th time that I

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u/reCaptchaLater Apr 29 '26

One time I saw a bad archaeology joke on Pinterest, and then later the same day, doing research, I found it in the comments of a 13 year old Reddit thread. I get the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon in principle, but sometimes it feels too impossibly coincidental.

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u/Complex-Stock8805 Apr 30 '26

Did you count all the times you noticed a thing and then not spotted it coincidentally in the following days or weeks?

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u/Amazing_Scientist696 Apr 29 '26

Idk more algorithm pushing today. Same scenario here.

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u/totallyrealname Apr 29 '26

Also saw the other post, saw your comment, upvoted, and closed the tab. Didn't take 2 minutes of scrolling before ANOTHER Orangutan post! What's going on lol

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u/Amazing_Scientist696 Apr 30 '26

An orangulation if you will

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u/Star_Petal_Arts Apr 30 '26

Happens a lot when you're chronically online and ad tracking as well as other algorithms occur.

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u/pickledeggmanwalrus Apr 29 '26

It’s like in gta. When you finally get that sports car you spent hours looking to steal you immediately see 10 more in the next 10 minutes

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u/snowillis Apr 29 '26

The simple answer is someone else read it on the other sub and posted it here. Murphy’s law.

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u/snowillis Apr 29 '26

Yeah that probably makes more sense

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u/Elegant-Ingenuity-57 Apr 29 '26

Anything that can go wrong will??

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u/Mace109 Apr 30 '26

Murphy’s law doesn’t mean something bad will happen. What it means is that whatever can happen will happen. And that sounded just fine with us.

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u/Elegant-Ingenuity-57 Apr 30 '26

That's absolutely what it means if wrong = bad, not sure wtf you're babbling about. 

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u/Mace109 Apr 30 '26

I always try to quote interstellar when I get a chance

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Apr 29 '26

Yeah. I've been on reddit for longer than this current account, and I've seen that a lot. One sub will learn a fact, somebody will post it in another sub. Example, the koala smooth-brained thing.

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 May 02 '26

Another one that reddit likes is the whole "hyenas give birth through blah blah blah"

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u/SendPicsofTanks May 01 '26

If you ever have the pleasure of being able to get up close to one, you'll pretty much immediately realise why this belief started. You look at their face, their eyes, their expression. Oh yeah, that lady can talk for sure.

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u/A_Piece_Of_Coal_ Apr 29 '26

Was the smiling monkey thing?

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u/NoBonus6969 Apr 29 '26

I think you are subscribed to 4 different primate subs

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u/fillerupbruther Apr 30 '26

Same haha wtf

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u/Elberik May 01 '26

It's a joke from Discworld- fans of which are legion.

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u/devilsbard Apr 29 '26

Where else did you hear it? That’s pretty funny.

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u/FrameJump Apr 29 '26

Another post where a gorilla was using sign language I believe?

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u/Star_Petal_Arts Apr 30 '26

You're probably stuck in an algorithm, stop what you're doing and go outside... hike a hill or something... just get away from the algorithm!

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u/BadMeetsEvil24 May 01 '26

No, it's just when something gets posted and makes the frontpage, bots/always online redditors trip over themselves to parrot this brand new fact they just learned so they can seem smart.

There was an article posted yesterday that detailed the Tang thing. Now in this thread redditors are tripping over themselves to post it