Reddit taking Trump's win well: Seeing a swastika in a random assortment of lights - Kotaku In Action 2

Reddit taking Trump's win well: Seeing a swastika in a random assortment of lights (twitter.com)

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– BetterNameUnfound 20 points 10 hours ago +20 / -0

Pareidolia is the phenomenon where you see faces in non-living things, such as a plug socket.

What's the word for THIS?

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– Vivs3rdSock 10 points 8 hours ago +10 / -0

Apophenia.

the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things

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– Adamrises 1 point 3 hours ago +1 / -0

A problem so widespread Jim Carrey made an ultra-gritty serious movie about it in the 2000s called The Number 23, one of the more specific versions of that belief.

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– mikhalych 6 points 9 hours ago +6 / -0

pareidumbia

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– YesMovement [S] 5 points 8 hours ago +5 / -0

Sarah-silvermanning.

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– Lurker404 3 points 9 hours ago +3 / -0

Pareidolia doesn't seem to be limited to faces, so I guess it would still apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia