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Pinpointing and highlighting the exact differences between facts, claims, and evidence. Which typically has caused an emotional reaction or sudden realization. It generally is used negatively.

Example: A TV dinner looks amazing on the cover and says it tastes amazing.

Negatively:
WHAT I EXPECTED: An amazing, delicious meal that looks beautiful.
WHAT I GOT: Tastes like vomit and looks just as appetizing. It even smells bad too.

Links with other terms:
"I don't know what I expected."
"My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined."
Example of WHAT I EXPECTED VS WHAT I GOT:
Man, can't believe I got suckered in, this game is trash. Let me sum it up for you:
WHAT I EXPECTED: GOTY, the gameplay looked amazing!
WHAT I GOT: Dissapointment, it was all fake.
by derpinator76 January 4, 2026
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What I call homo-sapiens who are addicted to knowing that axolotls are in the family of eagles?
Person 1: I Drew Baki Hamna Like Anyone Would Expect 《¤{Wacom-Tablet}》: The First Juvenile Release...
by LeSouffleDeVersailles February 2, 2025
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Expectant

A person who expects to receive something, particularly high office.
Some committed themselves to the crown-wearer, while others focused on the expectant
by Arminkshipper June 19, 2024
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Subversion of Subverted Expectations

A double whammy subversion of expectations, in particular in regard to film and television, where the audience is led to believe that a scene will follow through with a subversion of expectations regarding theme or humor before the opposite happens. May not always work- relies on the assumption that the audience is expecting the unexpected, but not expecting the expected.
As an example, we can take the Wheel of Fortune scene with Randy Marsh in South Park. In it, he must spell out the word which means "people who annoy me". He manages to by dumb luck fill out every single other letter in the answer leaving him with N_GGERS. The expectation by the audience is that at the last second he will answer with the word "Nagger" rather than "nigger", however at the last second the build-up to the joke concludes with a subversion of the audience's subverted expectations and the joke plays out as it would normally: with Randy answering "NIGGERS!".
We were led to believe that the punchline would be changed at the last minute, but the movie did a Subversion of Subverted Expectations by continuing the joke on as normal.
by hawn hawn baguette January 14, 2023
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exseed your expectations

What you hope dat your crop-yield will do, but never really count on it.
Usually da Gurney's, Burpee's, and Park's catalogs really hype and puff da growing/harvest-claims of da little dried things inside their proffered planting-packets, so you should not exactly expect an actual "bumper crop" on much of anything dat you order from them --- about da only germination and flourishing dat will likely exseed your expectations will be all of those blasted WEEDS dat you're constantly having to dig or pull out! :P
by QuacksO February 11, 2023
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