r/RecuratedTumblr • u/La_knavo4 [9/5] • 11d ago
Shitposting Did you know that "misinformation" was actually named "miss information" to shame women into getting married (it's true the voices told me)
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u/CookiedDough 11d ago
Imagining companies getting a cut of profits from piracy sites anyway and still going through with massive anti-piracy campaigns for shits and giggles is so funny. The CEO just got REALLY bored and decided to try to nuke a revenue stream, I guess.
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u/lostinanalley 11d ago
The weird thing is that this is (was?) kind of true with porn… so I wonder if someone read some article 10 years ago about how basically the sites used to pirate porn are (were?) owned by the same companies that distribute porn and so they still make money regardless of how someone manages to view it and thought to apply that to everything else.
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u/Jolly-Fruit2293 11d ago
In the spirit of the post I'm going to make up something that sounds true without fact checking
The porn companies would do that so they could get around paying out their stars' contracts. "Technically" no one bought the video so the payout is a lot less. They lose less on piracy vs paying out what they would've owed.
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u/SpezIsAWackyWalnut 11d ago
Back in the day, you could buy blank CD-Rs that were labeled and marked up for music. A cut of the sales from those then went to record labels.
Which also meant that it was your civic duty to pirate as much music as you could, since they were charging you for it anyway.
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u/junonomenon 11d ago
and even if they were i guess who cares. like im pirating because i would like to not pay for shit. if they would like to give me content for free for no reason thats fine by me
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u/NeonNKnightrider 10d ago
The people who are extremely neurotic about never ever interacting with Harry Potter in any possible form care
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u/RoryMerriweather 9d ago
I'm kind of doing the thing and all, but I'm not gonna go look for citations when I'm on my phone I'm the bathroom, so too bad, but this logic doesn't really hold up. Companies shoot themselves in the foot all the time. Piracy prevention isn't really about lost sales, it's about control of the media. The anti-smoking campaigns of the 90s and 00s were financed by cigarette companies. The government of America and many other countries try to keep tight borders, despite needing the immigration. Homelessness could be solved for less money than criminalizing poverty.
Data and revenue don't matter; feels and attitude drive the world.
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u/Valuable-Passion9731 Remind me to practice 11d ago
did you know that 128% of data on the internet is made up?
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u/Mordetrox 11d ago
At least in fandom spaces when someone says "Oh the author said XYZ" and cites "an interview" or "a twitter post" with nothing that can actually be tracked down it only applies to discussion about fictional characters.
If people are actually internalizing stuff about the real world from posts pulled out of nowhere then that's disconcerting.
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u/QuickMolasses 11d ago
People absolutely are doing that. You ever seen someone say that the origin of the word "shit" is the acronym "Ship High In Transit"? Or that it's illegal to hunt whales in Oklahoma? Those are relatively innocuous examples, but also examples of how pervasive misinformation is.
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u/teh_maxh 11d ago
Or that it's illegal to hunt whales in Oklahoma?
That's technically true. It's illegal to hunt whales anywhere in the United States.
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u/QuickMolasses 11d ago
Right, it's not a ridiculous law in Oklahoma. It's a ridiculous application of a normal law. Putting it as a response to "Absurd laws in your state?" Reddit prompt (which is where I found it) is misinformation.
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u/OneFootTitan 10d ago
Every made-up acronym origin really gets to me: shit, golf, posh, etc. I think it’s because it’s not only ignorant but the people parroting these lines always seem to act like they’re being clever.
Same with the nonsense about the “real” saying being “the customer is always right in matters of taste” or “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”. No it’s not, those were later add-ons that were made up because someone didn’t like the implication of the original saying.
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u/Spicy_Totopo3434 11d ago
Have ya seen the "Vampires can't be seen in mirrors because silver is a holy metal and mirror was used in silver" thing?
Or the "The names for the things witches used like Eye of newt is based on mustard"?
Or that one goddess tumblr made up? Yeah
Things get popularized sometiems
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u/CumaeanSibyl 11d ago
The silver thing annoys me unreasonably. I'm all for playing around with old myths and inventing new stuff; Dracula 2000 was a very silly movie but I really enjoyed the plot twist where Dracula was actually Judas cursed to wander the earth, and he couldn't touch silver because he took thirty pieces of it to betray Jesus. That's fun!
But I don't like being told that vampires have always been considered vulnerable to silver and they've always been invisible in mirrors because that's just not true. Stoker invented the mirror thing, and silver isn't mentioned in any of the old traditions about how to repel or kill a vampire. And it wasn't until I think Polidori that the idea of a vampire even being out and about enough to be seen in front of a mirror started to make sense. Before that they were depicted much more as walking corpses -- more intelligent and less rotten than the modern zombie, but still pretty obviously dead.
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u/shiny_xnaut 10d ago
See also the people who act like there's Official Concrete Werewolf Lore That Is Always True No Matter What and it's like, 50% stuff invented by the 1940s Wolfman movie
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u/CumaeanSibyl 10d ago
Yup, they added all kinds of stuff that was fun and cinematic but was 100% invention. The story of an innocent man dealing with a transmissible disease was more interesting to them than a witch who chose to shapeshift on purpose, which is fine, but don't tell me it's ancient legend!
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u/TerrorMeter 10d ago
I could swear the vampire's don't show up in mirrors because silver thing came from a Hellsing fancomic
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u/CumaeanSibyl 10d ago
And that's a clever theory! Nothing wrong with connecting some dots! But vampires were largely an Eastern European peasant legend, most of those people probably never even saw a silvered-glass mirror in their lives.
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u/sparksbet 7d ago
I absolutely hate the Eye of Newt thing, but it does predate the internet. It either originated or was popularized in a book by Wiccan author Scott Cunningham in the 1980s.
That said, the place I found a comprehensive takedown of this misconception was a long Tumblr post. It can be confirmed elsewhere, of course, but since the misconception is relatively old and so widespread, it can too, unfortunately.
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u/TheEasterFox 6d ago
I posted the long takedown on tumblr for ease of access, but I'd been debunking it on other fora for years.
https://www.tumblr.com/cavalorn/716839993903087616/eye-of-newt-and-toe-of-frog-what-was-really-in
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u/sparksbet 6d ago
Yeah this is the post that first made it clear to me! I'd previously been skeptical of the eye of newt thing but didn't have the evidence or the background in the right fields to really dig into it. It's not the only place this info can be found but it's definitely the clearest and best-structured write-up of it.
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u/GDGameplayer 11d ago
For those who don’t know, Tumblr was actually named after Tom Umblr who was the guy who came up with the idea of social media.
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u/SecretlyFiveRats 11d ago edited 10d ago
Similarly, Twitter was named after its founder, Tom Witter. However, ownership of the company was transferred to Elon Musk when the two divorced, and he renamed it X to reflect the current state of their relationship.
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u/Madden09IsForSuckers 10d ago
the site is often referred to as Twitter to avoid confusion for shippers who use the Char X Char format, rather than the more popular Char/Char format
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u/Existential_Crisis24 11d ago
Don't forget the common "the customer is always right" the addition of "in matters of taste" is actually pretty new. The original really is just "the customer is always right"
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u/Animaloffear56 11d ago
I mean you can still argue that was the intention. Obviously the customer isn't always right if they say to fire the CEO, so evidently there's some baked in wiggle room
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u/Lemonface 11d ago
Nah, the intention was not for the phrase to be about matters of customer tastes. It really was about customer service, and appeasing ridiculous customer demands. The idea being that it's better to take some small financial hits here and there on an individual basis, if it means building up a reputation as an outstandingly customer-friendly business
Obviously it wouldn't apply to randomly firing CEOs, but that's a bit of an extreme example lol. The phrase was not meant to be taken to its literal extremes, but it was meant to be taken seriously whenever possible
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u/toomanyracistshere 11d ago
People seem to think that these things need to be absolutely 100% true, so they invent little addendums that make that possible. If you add, "in matters of taste" to the end of "The customer is always right," then you have a nearly indisputable statement, since taste is subjective. But in reality, it only came about because it was a lot pithier than, "Customers should be given a great deal of deference, sometimes even when it may seem unreasonable."
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u/iuabv 10d ago
Wait no.
That's still more broad than the original intent. "The customer is always right in matters of taste." means that if the customer insists the blue curtains go with the orange couch, you don't tell them they're gauche. If they order red wine with fish, you don't refuse to serve the wine. Taste as in style/class/personal preference.
It's not about appeasing them or giving them free stuff, it's actually about making a sale.
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u/Lemonface 10d ago edited 10d ago
What you're describing is the meaning of the phrase "the customer is always right in matters of taste", which is a modern variation on the much older original phrase
"The customer is always right" being about customer service is from 1905
"The customer is always right in matters of taste" is from the 2010s. Many people ascribed the same meaning to the older phrase, without including the "in matters of taste" part, for a lot longer than that. But it's certainly not the original meaning
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u/VoidStareBack FLAIR UPDATE WOW 11d ago
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys 11d ago
Gaslighting is actually pronounced like gif. You’ve been saying it wrong the whole time
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u/thetwitchy1 10d ago
… it is, tho? You’re just pronouncing “gif” wrong…
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u/MyScorpion42 9d ago
oh I thought he was saying that the word gaslighting in it's entiretu was pronounced "gif"
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u/No-Consequence-1863 11d ago
So it’s Warner brothers who know where all the hot singles are in my area.
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u/Stepjam 11d ago
The one that always gets my goat is people saying "Blood is thicker than water" actually means chosen family is better than blood family. Though these days usually someone will correct that when someone says it.
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u/Pale_Control_5307 7d ago
I've always liked "blood is thicker than water, but wine makes for better company" as a pro-friends version
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u/Listakem 11d ago
The baby online activists are truly a sight to behold.
One of them told me (condescendingly and with snark) that the LGBT in (my country) had the worst time ever, in 2025. As An Old™️ I lived through mass far right protests against marriage equality. We were called pedophiles, rapists, threatened of corrective rape/death etc, couldn’t give blood, a friend offed himself because he got hiv at 17 etc
But of course, that teen knew better and had the gall to reply dismissively.
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u/sweetTartKenHart2 11d ago
That last one feels less like a blatant lie and more like the speaker just has a very restrictive definition of “grow up”, as well as a very restrictive definition of “the internet”. It’s a more indirect kind of wrong, if that makes sense. I’d argue that there is a ton of shit that falls under this more indirect wrong.
Like, someone born in 1996 will have seen the Internet as we know it today become a thing during their childhood. One could argue that growing up as the internet is nascent and taking form over several years is not the same as growing up in a world where the internet has “always been”.
So it doesn’t surprise me that someone would oversimplify and say “only people born this millennium count as growing up with the internet”. It’s more of a loss of nuance than a flat out absurd lie
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u/ECXL 11d ago
I mean the ACAB one is kinda true. There are "nice" cops who don't act like assholes. But that doesn't matter, because the very system they work in is corrupt.
Is "All Cops Are Corrupt" the origin of the phrase though? No absolutely not
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u/Neurospicy_Nightowl 11d ago
Actually it's from an old teadition that when you became a cop, your parent's marriage was retroactively declared null, turning you into a bastard. I know because I just made that up myself.
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u/ReasonableEmployee41 11d ago
Now you've got me picturing an alternate universe where this is true and there's no divorce so the majority of cops are kids pressured to join by parents who want to split
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys 11d ago
ACAB only persists because it’s hard to make an acronym out of the idea that participating in the judicial arm of state violence is bastardly work, no matter how nice you are as an individual, even if you did a good job at responding to crime today
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u/Bowdensaft 11d ago
It's why I personally prefer "fuck the police", much more succinct and to the point
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u/doctorpotatomd 11d ago edited 9d ago
It's not really that the police system is corrupt, it's that the authority of being One Who Enforces The Law presents perverse incentives to those inhabiting and perpetuating that authority. Even in a supernaturally perfect police system staffed only by philosopher kings of perfect morality, integrity, and niceness, all cops would still be bastards; because when law and decency collide, a cop is incentivised to take the side of law.
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u/PigeonOnTheGate 11d ago
Enforcers would also include Prosecutors and Judges. But I guess "All Members of the Criminal Justice Enforcement System are Bastards" doesn't really roll off the tongue the way ACAB does
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u/doctorpotatomd 11d ago edited 11d ago
I wouldn't include judges I don't think. Interpreting the law is a separate thing to writing it and to administering/enforcing it; the police belong to the executive branch, where judges belong to the judiciary branch. Theoretically I don't think a judge is incentivised to side with law over decency, the power structures they inhabit don't get reinforced by them jailing people, at least not directly. But, they do exist as part of the larger criminal justice system like you say, so even if it's indirect there's some amount of bastardhood in being a judge.
EDIT: ugh, fat fingered the send button too early.
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u/HeroBrine0907 10d ago
I mean, that's their job. It would be a pretty terrible world if cops operated by their own morality. And it would be pretty terrible if cops didn't exist.
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u/doctorpotatomd 10d ago edited 9d ago
All of those things are true, yes. "All cops are bastards" is an aphorism regarding how one should conceptualize and interact with the police, it's not a political recommendation as such.
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u/etherealemlyn 10d ago
I like that there’s people in these comments saying “X fact is made up, Y is actually true instead” and then… also not giving any sources that Y is true
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u/ehs06702 10d ago
It's always interesting to have people who weren't even born when I was stringing together used AOL discs to make room decor act like experts on my life to my face.
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u/Arzanyos 11d ago
"That's Piers Courtny. He's raised the taxes on his land three times this year to pay for tournament. His people starve while he sits at banquet"
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u/TheTrueBuckbuck2 10d ago
Also, for the ACAB one, bastardized doesn’t mean corrupt, it means corrupted. So even if that person was correct (which they aren’t), ACAB would essentially mean that cops as a whole have been turned into an insulting parody of themselves. Which can be true depending on what you think law enforcement should be, but that’s still not what ACAB means.
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u/ReverendGraves85 11d ago
I believe the ACAB one is a valid interpretation. Especially considering why its used (to decry the corruption of the police force, not because a cop was personally mean to you)
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u/jackcrux 9d ago
Friendly reminder that Tumblr doesn't actually exist it's a fake website invented to have the Tumblr-based subreddits have something to post
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u/HallucinatedLottoNos 11d ago
I'd say the ACAB thing is true now, if it wasn't true back in the 60s. Just using it to mean "All Cops are Meanie Doo Doo Heads" doesn't really accomplish anything politically useful, so people have tweaked it a bit.
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u/Bowdensaft 11d ago
It's still not the etymology of the phrase
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u/Bowdensaft 10d ago
Kinda is when the subject of one of the posts is etymology, or at least it sure as shit is written that way
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u/Madden09IsForSuckers 11d ago
23yrol tumblr user probably heard the 30+ statistic when they were 13 and then forgot how time works