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

Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:35 pm
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:35 pm
I swear I've heard of people saying this for decades before the books/show came out, but when I search for an origin everything points to that being the source. Am I losing it?
Posted by Corinthians420
Iowa
Member since Jun 2022
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:37 pm to
First I ever heard was game of thrones, but the first book is almost 3 decades old
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
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Member since Mar 2024
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:38 pm to
No, it did not originate from an HBO show in the last decade, you sweet summer child...

ETA: Apparently there's books, too.
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 10:39 pm
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
18543 posts
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:38 pm to
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.
This post was edited on 4/30/24 at 10:41 pm
Posted by VOLhalla
Knoxville
Member since Feb 2011
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:43 pm to
It’s 100% from game of thrones. Y’all are messed up in the head
Posted by Obtuse1
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Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:48 pm to
quote:

"you sweet summer child?"


My grandmother was saying it at least 50 years ago. I imagine it went back into her childhood.
Posted by Twincam
Member since Nov 2021
607 posts
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:52 pm to
quote:

Mandela effect


I know I seen that Sinbad movie as a kid.
Posted by UncleRuckus
Member since Feb 2013
7760 posts
Posted on 4/30/24 at 10:57 pm to
No fricking chance that’s from GoT. That’s an old person saying
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6253 posts
Posted on 4/30/24 at 11:24 pm to
Well you’d be right. A quick google search would tell you it’s been around since the Victorian age
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
69249 posts
Posted on 5/1/24 at 7:16 am to
It’s the AI effect.


When I’m 70 we will be saying I swear George Washington was white. I guess it’s the Mandela effect.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
96816 posts
Posted on 5/1/24 at 7:46 am to
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.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
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Posted on 5/1/24 at 7:55 am to
My Grandmother used to say it all the time. I always assumed it was one of those southern sayings like "bless your heart".
Posted by joshnorris14
Florida
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 5/1/24 at 9:03 am to
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.
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