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by DaveSchmindel 913 days ago
Why is this comment getting so much heat for being confirmation bias? If anything, we should all rally around trying to guess the name in question. Did you name your kid Butter? Bananas? Campbell's CHUNKY Savory Pot Roast?
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hahah you actually guessed it so I'll tell you - it was "Chunky man", and yes, I was slammed on social media with a relentless stream of inexplicable adds for CHUNKY soup, until I was like "holy shit"

edit: and before anyone asks, this nickname was only said verbally, in my house, among my family members, and never typed into a computer a single time

What if you had it backwards? You named your child "Chunky" after slowly being operantly conditioned to think about the name from the endless ads you were seeing before?
I'm not sure that the human mind works like that. I'd look into it further, but little Raid Shadow Legends just woke up and needs his breakfast
Gosh, crazy! I've literally never talked about Raid Shadow Legends before but now I'm seeing their ads everywhere. So creepy.
I can't rule it out