Have you had a recent "Truman Show" experience? If so, what happened?

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TheKnightsRider@reddit

For me its the adverts on social media etc, that appear soon after you've been discussing them (but not searching them and creating cookies).

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Winston_Carbuncle@reddit

So the official explanation is the algorithms and cookies are so good at what they do that they can predict your thoughts essentially.

Either that or the microphones in our handheld billboards are always on...

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rj_t2@reddit

I thought it was common knowledge that social media apps access your microphone 24/7 to listen for keywords for advertisements?

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CeeApostropheD@reddit

I think the downvoters there have just never experienced it. I know myself and about 5 other people who have had adverts about a thing that has been recently discussed, not searched.

As a collective we generally don't trust the intentions of companies, but in this sphere there's a bizarre solid belief that companies would never do this to us. Bless them.

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StardustOasis@reddit

They don't though. You can ever check this yourself by looking in your phone settings and seeing which apps can access your microphone at all times.

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rj_t2@reddit

Assuming you trust that is actually true.

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My theory is it’s just from spending a lot of time with someone in a long period of time. When I was with my ex, he mentioned that he just bought from cargo trousers from boohoo. I didn’t google them or anything but the next day when I got home all I had was adds from boohoo for cargo trousers. Equally when I send time with my friend with exclusive shops at Disturbia, I get non stop adds from them for a few days.

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Jam-Pot@reddit

I asked the wife IN PERSON to get me some immodium as my antibiotics were throwing side effects up.

The same day I get immodium adverts on FB. Checked all my messages, nothing. No Internet searches for anything even similar.

Someone somewhere knows what we're saying.

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resident_queerdo@reddit

I live alone though and it still works. It's creeped me out several times.

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Master-Leopard-7830@reddit

I always referred to a period of about 7 months of my life as a Truman show.

Long story short, my (now ex) mate was seeing my girlfriend behind my back. The entire time it was happening he was 'steering' me to make space for them to be together.

For example he'd get tickets to a gig for us both then drop out last minute and persuade me to still go and take another mate. This so he knew I'd be out until at least the early hours. Lots of small 'micro' nudges to push me in certain directions.

When it all came out I ended up having a sit down with him and going through it all (too long to explain but we were amicable) and my mind was blown by how much they had both conspired to keep me away from them.

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Matterbox@reddit

Jesus. Are you ok mate. That sounds bloody awful.

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Awkward-Tax102@reddit

Absolutely chucking down with rain in the back garden once but bright sun and dry out the front like the localised targeted rain

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CowDontMeow@reddit

Every now and then I go through bouts of barely sleeping and that turns everything into a faux Truman show situation

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Flabra_Cadabra@reddit

Guys he’s noticed the car thing, can we please discuss at our next production meeting?

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sophietheadventurer@reddit

It’s a running observation in my family that at my parents house/family home whether you are coming or leaving in the car there will almost always be someone about to walk past the driveway

Could be 2am, no one about for miles, you’re coming home from the airport after a holiday and someone is walking across the driveway when you go to pull in

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HomeworkInevitable99@reddit

I take my car off the drive and the road fills with cars.

From my house I see the road is clear, but as I get in the car, I see traffic in the distance, timed perfectly to rest my house as I drive off.

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Rossco1874@reddit

This often happens in supermarket car park. Nothing coming get in car after loading belt on go to reverse and every car/pedestrian is going past my boot preventing me from leaving my space.

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Rossco1874@reddit

The main road through my town see a lady almost every time walking it. Her clothes change but only very subtly. For example always wears a top, skirt and hat the outfit is pretty much the same but the colour change. Have drove this road at different parts of the day and she is usually walking on it so it doesn't appear to be part of a routine she walks this at 2pm.every day.

My wife and I joke when we see her saying there she is and we see her in all weathers.

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lalajia@reddit

It's your ex. Sorry.

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

Similar to you. I live on an estate with a field at the end used by local groups for football etc. When the football was done and the cars started leaving, I saw the exact same car leave twice. Maybe the reg was different as I didn't take time to notice or maybe they went back as they forgot something but it definitely made me double take.

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Queen_of_London@reddit

I used to live on a quiet road that had the same cars going round constantly.

They were driving instructors. Our road was a good one to practice in for various things, which meant that several driving firms used it. So I really was seeing the same cars going round and round, but it was for a reason.

Or, at least, that's what "they" told me was going on...

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit

The way some people make something their entire personality, genuinely sometimes make me suspect that they are just ads for the audience.

Android vs Apple people

Political people

Tech bros

Finance bros

Music band people

Football fans

Etc

SURELY, real people can’t be that invested in a thing

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Gone_For_Lunch@reddit

I feel the exact same way with the repeated “where can I buy X item” type questions. It feel likes marketing every time.

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felineunderling@reddit

Saw what I think was the Google street view car a few days ago with its 360 camera on top.

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blozzerg@reddit

A while back me and some colleagues were discussing how we all hate fireworks and literally as I ended a sentence, a firework went off outside and popped near our doors.

This was a time in the year where fireworks aren’t typically let off, and it was still light outside, around 5pm.

I’d said something along the lines of ‘yeah I just find them a bit nerving, I don’t trust the public with explosives’ and then I shit you not a second later we heard the high pitched squeal of one being let off, we all looked at each other, and then we saw the flash and heard the bang outside the big glass window/doors.

Nobody could have heard of, and just the one went off. Freaked us all out.

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ARobertNotABob@reddit

https://files.catbox.moe/d8gy59.png

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MrSteveBob@reddit

Just this afternoon I found out I’ve been the star of a reality TV show for 42 years.

I plan to elope to Fuji with a girl I spent 20 mins with in college later

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PineappleLunchables@reddit

You deserve it after almost drowning in that sailboat!

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

I was once nearly hit by a mysterious falling lamp outside but it turned out the ex wife had just yeeted it at my head from the bedroom window

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JohnLennonsNotDead@reddit

To be fair mate, you shouldn’t have shagged her mum

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

I went to see The Truman Show at the Cinema. As I got in my car afterwards a huge leaf landed on the windscreen.

I don’t know why but it felt like a prop had fallen from the sky and I screamed lol

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3lbFlax@reddit

https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E21/F_BJ0jlNs2ekZydkmQAiY7dokSc=.gif

Man, I made that and saved it and then discovered I couldn’t post a GIF reply, at least on my iPad, and after copying the image it would only paste in as a link, and then while I was trying all that the wretched Reddit app decided to forget it was a reply and post it as a top-level comment, so I had to delete that and do it again. But we got there, and now it’s the weekend.

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Majestic_Matt_459@reddit

I can see the link. Once Simpsons but do you think it refers to the Truman Shoe or just fits perfectly.

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3lbFlax@reddit

Oh, it fits perfectly, which of course is what you want in a shoe.

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Rugbyal15@reddit

Driving to work I have seen two people, almost identical, in near identical cars(same make and model, diff number plates .Twice, two separate days. It’s a busy road so I got a good look. Just looks like they got out and ran back round the block into a new car 😂

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Electricbell20@reddit

Outlet shopping villages. They always give me the creeps for being a bit to preened.

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