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The World of Candy Effect

The strange, soul crushing emotional spiral that hits after listening to the entire song “World of Candy” by Michael Jackson, not just a snippet, not a remix, but the full uncut experience. It starts out sweet, nostalgic, even magical, then bam! suddenly you’re plunged into a deep, unexplainable grief that lingers all day. Nothing helps, not memes, not snacks, not fresh air, until you finally crash and sleep it off. Like how did this guy who made Thriller write ts?
“Dude, I listened to World of Candy on my lunch break and couldn’t function the rest of the day.”

“You are experiencing The World of Candy effect.”
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Fifth world

Group, people who talk a lot, famous rappers
Fifth world is performing today/tonight!
Fifth world by IowaWoman November 11, 2025

Glob World

An out of bounds area in video games. I.e. Skyrim's Whiterun
"This is it boys, we've entered Glob World."
Glob World by Zebraiscool12 November 30, 2025

Wally-World

A slang word for the retail corporation “Walmart”
You: “Let’s hit up Wally-World”
Friend: “Huh?”
You “Walmart…”
Wally-World by JNJ421 December 9, 2025
During the height of the Crips and Bloods gang era. Crips would use different sounds and phrases to call out "represent". Some would yell "C-WORLD" to make themselves known.
The Crips are coming I heard one call out "C-world " when he got out the car.
C-world by anonymous December 29, 2025

Real World Demarcation Problem

Similar to Real Life, but focused on practical consequences and material constraints versus theoretical, academic, or idealistic plans. It's the gap between a model and the messy, resistant context it's applied to. A policy might be logically perfect in a white paper but fail in the "real world" of perverse incentives, unexpected variables, and human irrationality. The "real world" here is constructed as the realm of harsh limits, testing whether an idea is robust or fragile.
Example: "My economic theory was flawless on the blackboard. The Real World Demarcation Problem hit when I tried it in my small business: a supplier got sick, a key customer was irrational, and regulations I'd never considered applied. The 'real world' wasn't just physics; it was the chaotic aggregate of everyone else's agency and luck, which my clean model had demarked as irrelevant noise."

Extraphysical World

A specific realm within the extraphysical dimensions—a world with its own geography, inhabitants, and laws, all non-physical. An extraphysical world might be what mystics call the astral plane, what religion calls heaven, what myth calls the underworld. It's not a metaphor; it's a real place, just not a physical one. Inhabitants of extraphysical worlds might include spirits, gods, ancestors, and other non-physical beings. Access might be possible through death, meditation, or altered states. The concept of an extraphysical world gives location to the non-physical—a somewhere for the souls, a geography for the spiritual.
Example: "She'd always felt that dreams were not just brain noise but glimpses of an extraphysical world—a realm she visited nightly, remembered fragments of, and returned to at death. The world felt real when she was there, more real sometimes than waking life. Maybe it was real, just differently real. She slept easier knowing she was going home."