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=== Other Media === |
=== Other Media === |
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* In early 2022, a meme image of what appears to be a [[tumblr]] post was circulating, in which a distant relative of [[w:Marie Curie|Marie Curie]] recounts how they were trying to tell another person about their relationship to the famous scientist -- only for that person to stop and "correct" their pronunciation... to "[[Mariah Carey]]". |
* In early 2022, a meme image of what appears to be a [[tumblr]] post was circulating, in which a distant relative of [[w:Marie Curie|Marie Curie]] recounts how they were trying to tell another person about their relationship to the famous scientist -- only for that person to stop and "correct" their pronunciation... to "[[Mariah Carey]]". |
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* For about a year in the very early 2020s, [[All The Tropes]] had a user who fancied himself a (very minor) celebrity, and had written a creator page for himself. He gave every appearance of being completely ignorant of any work made in any medium before about 2010, and routinely credited his sub-3000-subscriber [[YouTube]] channel with "rescuing" films like ''[[Alien]]'' from being forgotten with the attention they received after he "rediscovered" them. He also seemed to believe that smartphones were the pinnacle of computer development, and that anything that couldn't run on a smartphone was automatically obsolete. |
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== Exceptions == |
== Exceptions == |
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