For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.
First thing that came to mind is Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle which led to, among other things, the creation of the FDA.
That wasn’t his goal though; he’s quoted as saying: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
I know, the whole book is about how America is a giant con to get immigrants to come over so they can be exploited for profit then left to die with they can no longer work 12 hour shifts, meanwhile they get to watch their kids get poisoned by companies, ran over by commercial trucks and robbed of any dignity or chance they deserve.
Instead people read it and were like ‘omg some filthy polacks finger could be in my sausage, that’s disgusting!’
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Theres still on average about 2 amputations per week across the US meat packaging industry. People are still getting maimed and killed doing a job that pays shit. You just don’t eat as much of them as you used to…
Damn, shrinkflation hitting everything
There was a minor news story about a decade ago about Tyson getting caught employing minors on the meat packing floor.
Final Destination caused an entire generation of drivers to abjectly refuse to take up any space within a quarter mile behind a log truck.
Honestly I got a lot more of that from IdiotsInCars on reddit
For anybody wanting to watch the movie so they understand this meme, don’t actually watch Final Destination, because the log scene is not in there. I know this because I watched the whole movie waiting to see it, and never saw it.
The log scene is in Final Destination 2.
Final Destination 2 also had the best final kill of the entire franchise. Most of the movie is not great, but the open and close are two of my favorite moments in a cinema.
That series is so irritating. Basically kids haunted by the ghost of Rube Goldberg.
I’ve never seen the Final Destination movies, but the one with the tanning bed scene came out when I was in high school.
…Interestingly enough, that was right around when the cliquey “cool” girls stopped going to tanning salons in the winter.
Refuse to? Buddy, I’m hunting for them. I don’t have to do this anymore and my family gets a big payout. Sign me up.
Bad news, the scene was CGI’d because logs don’t bounce like that.
Ya just gotta ruin my dreams, eh? /s
I’ve heard that bricks are much more effective IRL.
Might I recommend any given highway in and around Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula.
On my way!
I swear this is just an online meme and people are larping about it being a genuine fear.
Never seen the movies but I 100% would change lanes to avoid driving behind a log truck. I do it for other trucks, too, if they’re carrying what look like barely-strapped-down loads.
I never even considered that this wouldn’t be a common fear lol.
I can tell you it’s true for at least one person.
Star Trek introduced a lot of the first concepts of what we currently use as every day technology, it had a first hand tangible impact on the lives of pretty much every human alive today.
Hey I love star trek as much as the next guy but this is a bit of an overstatement.
They didn’t invent anything, it’s just a portrayal of what the future might look like.
Some of it is very obvious and not much of a prediction: like a hand held device with sensors - but they did get the form factor and use cases completely wrong.
Most of it is obviously remains fictional, like transporters.
Sorry if you want to say trek predicted the future you have to ignore the majority of the show which they got completely wrong.
Nowhere did I say they invented anything nor predicted the future. Learn some reading comprehension.
Oh sorry, it’s just that you seemed to be saying that star trek changed the world by introducing the first concepts of tech we used today.
It did. Do you not understand the difference between invention and first concept? I never gave them credit for everything, but it’s indisputable that the cell phone was inspired directly by Star Trek communicators, that is according to the inventor of the first cell phone, as well as the concept of multi-funtion interface devices which is exactly what you’re likely holding in your hand at this very moment which is also a cell phone.
Feel free to die on that hill, but what I’m saying is an objective fact.
LOL.
There’s some “objective facts” in that guys memoirs aparently:
As Martin Cooper reveals in his new memoir Cutting the Cord: The Creator of the Cell Phone Speaks Out, cellular technology was actually being developed in the late ’50s and through the ’60s. By the time Star Trek debuted in 1966, Cooper and his team at Motorola were practically in the home stretch; in 1973, they debuted the first-ever handheld mobile telephone, the brick-like DynaTAC. Cooper himself made the first cell phone call on October 17, 1973—to his chief competitor at AT&T, with whom he’d been in a bit of a cellular space race, as revealed in the book
The article goes on to explain coopers role in the star trek myth.
Very obviously, handheld devices were inevitable and predictable in the 60s when ToS was written. That was my original point.
See, it’s this kind of shit, this is exactly why people can’t fucking stand contrarians. Jesus fucking christ, get a life.
Ok let’s recap:
- you trot out something you learned from some shatner edutainment you saw, as fact
- assertion does not withstand a moment’s critical thought
- you double down with some ad hominem and some “objective facts”
- facts are proven false by your own purported source
- you triple down with more ad hominem, because of course you’re not the problem.
This pattern of interaction is common among a particular type of person. I’ll give you a tip for free: it’s not smart people.
The Matrix; check out “the internet” for some examples of its influence.
Do you mean The Matrix the movie, or The Matrix the thing William Gibson created in 1983?
Maybe the 1850s rebrand of 3000 year old math concept of arrays?
I still remember the long lines on launch day.
They keep saying consume product, but no one ever talks about Kronecker product…
The Matrix was very much an expression of a subset of hacker culture of its time. Not a trendsetter.
It also gave us Elon Musk…
No. Fuck no.
Ye. Thats where this whole “we live in a simulation” comes from that elon is a follower off
He is an asshole from birth, no need to assign blame to any external entity.
I didnt blame him geing an asshole on matrix?!?!
You did say matrix “gave us Elon”. What did you mean by that, then?
The 24 hour news cycle. It made the news dependent on ratings and turned into an entertainment medium to fill all of the extra hours. Before that, it was a half hour of local news and a half hour of national news at dinner time and at bedtime with snippets of news in the morning on things like the Today Show. CNN created a format, Fox added imaginary outrage, and things went downhill from there.
Outrage sells better than sex does.
(Personal case, but i think i am not alone) I have been interested in science since Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, i was a kid when it aired.
Dracula and Frankenstein both came out during the same year, 1931. Dracula was so popular in early 1931 that they were able to do all of Frankenstein by the end of the year. Can you imagine?
Those two began the modern era of horror. Modern being not silent.
The book Unsafe at Any Speed was partly responsible for the formation of both the US Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Nader should’ve been president dammit
Afaik it basically introduced automotive safety as a thing in the US. People just didn’t care before.
The Jungle was a book about the meat packing industry in 1906. It detailed horrific treatment of the animals and disgusting unsanitary treatment of the meat products.
It led to public outrage and caused the Meat Inspection Act to be passed in the same year. That Act laid the foundation for modern health inspections in food facilities.
Notably it was only the poor treatment of the food that pissed people off. Sinclair meant to create sympathy for exploited workers, but no one actually cared about that part.
And Fast Food Nation turned me off meat for 6 months.
The Apprentice 😕
Mein Kampf
Imagine a world where we simply had never made him re-famous.
The first Federal laws against hacking and computer crimes was a direct reaction to the movie War Games (1983).
From Wikipedia:
President Ronald Reagan, a family friend of Lasker’s, watched the film and discussed the plot with members of Congress, his advisers, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reagan ordered a full national security review. Within a week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff returned an answer: “Yes, the premise was technically possible”. Reagan’s interest in the film is credited with leading to the enactment 18 months later of NSDD-145, the first Presidential directive on computer security.
The first weekend of Pokemon Go was the closest we ever got to world peace.
and then it was used to train the war machine.
The bible and the quran and what for obvious reasons
I’m not claiming to fully understand the cultural impact, but I’ve heard from native Irish folks that Zombie had a material impact on The Troubles.
It’s also a banger.
