Anonymous asked:
Another thing with the fiction impacting reality, Bugs Bunny making the association between rabbits as a whole and carrots (which can be really really bad when uneducated owners feed their rabbits an only carrot diet)
encyclopediamorbidica answered:
"fiction doesn't affect reality or your thoughts" niggas when i show them how people will buy rabbits and black cats for easter and halloween respectively and give them up for adoption once the season is over (and how people used to abuse black cats as the result of them being bad luck), how dalmatians blew up in popularity after 101 dalmatians came out (and how golden retrievers ALSO got really popular because of the buddies movies), how sharks were hated and overfished after jaws released to the point where conservation efforts had to be put in place for them, how weeaboo culture is founded on the idea that Japan is EXACTLY like anime, how racist propaganda in fiction is spread, how US cop and military movies actively bolster the reputation of the US judicial system, how wasps and bees are treated differently because of their perception in media (the emphasis on bees being sweet little creatures that want to polinate vs wasps being angry assholes when they both do kind of the same thing), and to top it all off,
how i tried to skidoo into a book once because i saw it on blues clues



