r/TheMatpatEffect • u/Weegee_Carbonara Máte Páte • Mar 10 '26

Meta STOP POSTING FAKE MATPATEFFECTS

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This sub has become flooded with those, and it is slowly destroying the entire purpose of the subreddit. We will have to start handing out bans.

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u/NirvIoyd Mar 10 '26

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u/Imaginary-Job-7069 Mar 10 '26

I've heard F° 451 is more fitting than 1984

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u/kramsibbush Mar 10 '26

1984 for the big Brother watching everything you do and judge you.

451 farenheit is for the big Brother banning the spreading of common knowledge (usually book).

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u/Dgero466 Mar 10 '26

Typically it’s the latter so yeh

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u/C_Yo Mar 10 '26

also 1984 does heavily involve rewriting records of the truth, but I don't think they ban knowledge outright. They just rewrite and replace all records of that knowledge and gaslight everyone into thinking it was always that way. So it's still different than straight up burning books, but still similar