Forgotten / Memory-holed Psyops - What things do you believe were pushed heavily into public consciousness only to be forgotten that they were pushed at all?

[Super Mario Brothers]

Could also go in the AI Hysteria thread, but I noticed the Stop Misinformation campaign thing fizzled out before AI took over everything. Almost everyone I've met in real life just recites anything a Google AI bot says without any critical thinking whatsoever. That includes people that I assume would know better, such as being in charge of archives, etc. I see people of all age groups doing this as well, it's not just boomers. I get that people don't understand how their technology works, but I would have assumed they know that it takes information from different sources while being extremely prone to error, rather than just being a "magical information text box."

 

[big pauper]

Could also go in the AI Hysteria thread, but I noticed the Stop Misinformation campaign thing fizzled out before AI took over everything. Almost everyone I've met in real life just recites anything a Google AI bot says without any critical thinking whatsoever. That includes people that I assume would know better, such as being in charge of archives, etc. I see people of all age groups doing this as well, it's not just boomers. I get that people don't understand how their technology works, but I would have assumed they know that it takes information from different sources while being extremely prone to error, rather than just being a "magical information text box."

i think people are generally aware of the magical information text box being ai generated and unreliable but i think this isn't even an issue with people being stupid it's an issue with people being trained to trust the information coming from these machines. the current version they're using is unreliable and retarded so they have to second guess things they didn't before

and it's even worse when people dont want to second guess themselves. i dont get this as much anymore because im older but you have no idea how many times i've had old people fuck up dates of recent historical events and then double down on it, eg 'the ipad came out in 2004'. It was one of the older ones before the ipad. You know what i'm talking about. At least, you should! You're probably just too young to remember

 

[big pauper]

My mother actually used to do this when I was a child with me using computers and owning a Nintendo DS and Gamecube at the time. I'm now in my mid 20's, and I don't have carpal tunnel syndrome despite playing video games for years as a child/teenager.

my mom had carpal tunnel really bad in the 90s and 2000s from being a seamstress and working a data entry job but i think a lot of that has gone away now that people understand ergonomics better

 

[NSA Intern]

Less psyop and more memory hole, the Tunnel Jews in NYC have been almost entirely forgotten by anyone not an Internet racist. Xitter users claiming to hear hebrew under their floors and walls, being called schizo, and then a few months later videos of the most orthodox jews imaginable popping up out of sewer grates and manhole covers, and the police finding a bloodstained mattress and children's clothes in the tunnels.
I tried to find good, non-dubbed over originals of the videos but they're a bitch to locate and gave up. If anyone has them stored away in their archives I'd appreciate them dropped here, or a link to a Jim stream or something.