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* [[Photographic Memory|Eidetic memory]] is the exact opposite of this. But cases of it are extremely rare. Yet, even if it were more common, most have a built-in [[Weirdness Censor]] that prevents [[It's Been Done]] warnings from being taken seriously.
* To an extent and modified for regional issues, ''all'' politicians love to abuse this trope, worldwide, making promises to attract votes that they more likely than not won't keep, even if they actually intended to do so when making them.
* Anything aimed at a university or college audience on-campus inherently has an audience with a collective memory of four years - if that's the length of the undergrad programme. Those who remember graduate and leave, another class of students replaces them, everything is new again.
* Scammers also love to abuse this trope, hoping that their potential victims won't recall reports of every other time the scam they want to attempt has harmed others.
* The current global economic crisis has a root cause: overleveraging shaky mortgages. [[Sarcasm Mode|Nothing like this has ever happened before.]]
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