The "familiarity filter" refers to the phenomenon where children are more inclined to listen to strangers rather than their own parents, often due to filtering out familiar things that have always been there.
It's interesting how the familiarity filter works; my child pays more attention to advice from a teacher than from me, just because it feels new and different.
by Emotional Cruiser September 19, 2025
Get the familiarity filtermug. Used by buddythedylan, every single video on his tik tok have over 100 views in a long day , God Damn !
by cookiecake5678__ June 17, 2025
Get the Aye bro No filter !mug. The “Hollywood Filter” is a face tuning filter from a retouch app called FaceApp. Every influencer uses it. That’s why they all look the same.
by eeeemmmmeeeeee May 15, 2022
Get the Hollywood Filtermug. When you have a turd in the chamber, and you fart, and the fart squeaks around the turd and takes on an extra pungent aroma.
by ProudGooner6969 June 12, 2025
Get the Turd-filteredmug. by Alberto CG August 3, 2019
Get the Rose filtermug. a desirable but non existant device that would automatically exclude from the network, anyone known to do things that lead to problems
by The Return of Light Joker February 1, 2010
Get the bozo filtermug. Mass media "filters" filtered out new stories and facts that are presented in major local, regional, national and international news media outlets. The five classes of media "filters" are:
1) Ownership, especially when media ownership is consolidated and participatory with regards to self and special interests.
2) Funding sources include both internal and external sources of financing the reporting.
3) Sourcing - where sources can influence action taking advantage of their value to the source, and which can negatively affect access and reliability, and punish those that negatively impact the source or the sources constituents.
4) Flak - negative responses to a media statement, article, or program. It can be lawsuits, intimidation, violence, boycott and destroying livelihood.
5) "being branded fear activating ideology that is not accepted by the hegemony". - communist, socialist, liberal, etc.
1) Ownership, especially when media ownership is consolidated and participatory with regards to self and special interests.
2) Funding sources include both internal and external sources of financing the reporting.
3) Sourcing - where sources can influence action taking advantage of their value to the source, and which can negatively affect access and reliability, and punish those that negatively impact the source or the sources constituents.
4) Flak - negative responses to a media statement, article, or program. It can be lawsuits, intimidation, violence, boycott and destroying livelihood.
5) "being branded fear activating ideology that is not accepted by the hegemony". - communist, socialist, liberal, etc.
The reporter could not get past the media filters with his highly controversial stories, even though they were well documented and fact-checked.
by mlhiss December 15, 2019
Get the media filtermug.