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The coconut effect is that moment when something seems more realistic when fictionalized than when it's real. For example, horse hooves sounds were often made with coconuts, even if their hooves were on sand or grass. People thought it sounded more realistic, having that sound effect, even though it wasn't technically realistic.

Many more effects like this exist, and that tells us a lot about fiction, reality, and how we picture our world today.

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00:00When you see an establishing shot of a boat in a movie, you have to hear that foghorn sound effect.
00:04Whereas in reality, they don't all have this foghorn or use it in the middle of the sea.
00:09When you see a person on a bike in a movie, you have to hear that bell sound.
00:12When in reality, some bikes in those movies don't even have that bell.
00:16And in reality, you don't hear that bell sound all the time.
00:19The car brakes in cars in every movie make that really specific screeching sound.
00:24Whereas in reality, they barely make a noise.
00:26When you go to a lab in a movie, you see all those flashy colors and liquids everywhere all over
00:31the place.
00:32Whereas in reality, it's way more boring than that.
00:35In movies, you often see a character's life flash before their eyes, before they die.
00:39Whereas in reality, when you're about to die or really scared as f***, you don't really see your life flashing
00:44before your eyes.
00:45All of this also kind of reminds me of the Tiffany effect.
00:47Where you associate specific historic elements to specific historic events.
00:51Like the name Tiffany is associated with our contemporary time.
00:55Whereas it's an actual really old name.
00:57But people don't really believe that.
00:58That's also the case with movies.
01:00Because they put a lot of effort to make something look realistic in many movies.
01:04That influenced the general culture of everyone.
01:07And that whole phenomenon is called the coconut effect.
01:09And I made a whole video about that subject on my channel that I recommend you to watch.
01:13And also feel free to share your own favorite coconut effect in the comments.
01:16And also you can like and follow to see more fun facts like this.

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