Is this a Mandela effect? Did Game of Thrones coin the phrase "you sweet summer child?"

First I ever heard was game of thrones, but the first book is almost 3 decades old

I 100% used that phrase before Game of Thrones.

Edit - It is weird that even ChatGPT says Martin invented it. According to it, there has never been a documented or written use of the phrase prior to Martin.

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"you sweet summer child?"

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My grandmother was saying it at least 50 years ago. I imagine it went back into her childhood.

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Mandela effect

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I know I seen that Sinbad movie as a kid.

Well you’d be right. A quick google search would tell you it’s been around since the Victorian age

Originally coined? Probably not.

Popularized it? Certainly, especially when the books got adapted to the screen.


It became a term used to poke at people who weren’t book readers who got blindsided by the plot.

People have poor/false memories. Outside of GRRM's universe, the term makes no sense as children regularly experiences all of the seasons.

In A Song of Ice and Fire, however, seasons are understood differently where undefined extended periods of warmth (summer) follow undefined extended periods of cold (winter) and a child that is naive to the nature of winter is referred to using this term.