The mistaken belief that an argument is valid or true simply because it uses complex, scientific-sounding, or technical language—regardless of whether the content makes any actual sense.
“Quantum vibrations in your DNA resonate with the cosmic frequency of abundance, aligning you with the higher dimensional matrix of manifestation.”
“Wow, that sounds deep!”
“Nah, bro. That’s just the technobabble fallacy.”
“Wow, that sounds deep!”
“Nah, bro. That’s just the technobabble fallacy.”
by Jo Burn June 5, 2025
Get the Technobabble Fallacy mug.Aka, the “Liberty Cabbage Fallacy”, When people forcefully change the meaning of a word or concept for political or social reasons, then pretend that new meaning is legit just because it’s popular or approved by institutions.
“Man I love Liberty Cabbage!”
“You mean Sauerkraut?”
“No it’s liberty cabbage bc German bad!”
“Thats just a revisionism fallacy, everyone’s just gonna call it sauerkraut the moment your social opinions lose grace”
“You mean Sauerkraut?”
“No it’s liberty cabbage bc German bad!”
“Thats just a revisionism fallacy, everyone’s just gonna call it sauerkraut the moment your social opinions lose grace”
by NathanMcCulley June 12, 2025
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When a word is forcefully broadened to the point where it loses its purpose, not through natural evolution, but for the sake of inclusion or ideology. Broadening something so much it renders its purpose non existent or lesser as a result.
“The sky is grey”
“What? It’s blue!”
“Grey just means any color that isn’t white!””
“That’s just a dilution fallacy, grey means a specific color, spontaneously ditching that for your opinion is insane!”
Alternatively:
“Let Timmy have a drivers license!”
“But he can’t drive!”
“Don’t worry, drivers licenses are meant to include everyone! It just means anyone with an interest in qualifying for driving!”
“That’s just a dilution fallacy, it no longer means what it’s supposed to!”
“What? It’s blue!”
“Grey just means any color that isn’t white!””
“That’s just a dilution fallacy, grey means a specific color, spontaneously ditching that for your opinion is insane!”
Alternatively:
“Let Timmy have a drivers license!”
“But he can’t drive!”
“Don’t worry, drivers licenses are meant to include everyone! It just means anyone with an interest in qualifying for driving!”
“That’s just a dilution fallacy, it no longer means what it’s supposed to!”
by NathanMcCulley June 12, 2025
Get the Dilution Fallacy mug.In an argument if your opponent is LGBTQ you can invalidate their argument by invoking this fallacy.
(note this linguistic fallacy only works if you yourself are either LGBTQ as well or just homophobic)
(note this linguistic fallacy only works if you yourself are either LGBTQ as well or just homophobic)
by jonathanthefruitathan July 8, 2025
Get the Faggot Fallacy mug.A logical fallacy where one reductively presents an idea or object in terms of it's basic fundamental parts, missing the point of it, often to make an argument seem more simple or valid than it would be with the added context, similarly to how detail is lost with the compression of a JPEG.
Person A: (raging at a game)
Person B: "Why're you getting so mad? It's just pixels on a screen, bro." (An example of the JPEG fallacy, because sure, it is "pixels on a screen", in the most basic sense, but it's grossly reduced.)
Person B: "Why're you getting so mad? It's just pixels on a screen, bro." (An example of the JPEG fallacy, because sure, it is "pixels on a screen", in the most basic sense, but it's grossly reduced.)
by Well, there is not a man here. July 15, 2025
Get the JPEG fallacy mug.The Koopa Fallacy refers to a theoretical phenomenon when one group that contradicts itself is percieved as two groups with contradictory views.
This happens in internet fandoms where many users interact anonymously, and one finds it reasonable to assume that any contradictions are the result of disagreements between smallar groups when in fact it is one group being unreasonable and contradictory.
The name stems from the Goomba Fallacy, explaining the opposite phenomenon of two groups with contradictory view being mistaken as one.
This happens in internet fandoms where many users interact anonymously, and one finds it reasonable to assume that any contradictions are the result of disagreements between smallar groups when in fact it is one group being unreasonable and contradictory.
The name stems from the Goomba Fallacy, explaining the opposite phenomenon of two groups with contradictory view being mistaken as one.
"This fandom is demanding realism and wacky mechanics at once! Surely it's simply a disagreement within the fandom."
"No, the same accounts asking for realism are also asking for a cartoony style as well. It's Koopa Fallacy."
"No, the same accounts asking for realism are also asking for a cartoony style as well. It's Koopa Fallacy."
by JG.Jr September 24, 2025
Get the Koopa Fallacy mug.The Idiots Fallacy is a logical fallacy where somebody names a logical fallacy instead of formulating an argument; it's a form of The Fallacist's Fallacy mixed with Virtue Signalling and Gaslighting.
Guy: "I just went out to my car, sat down and turned the key, and it didn't start!"
Idiot: "Slippery Slope Fallacy!"
Guy: "No, that's just the Idiots Fallacy."
Idiot: "Slippery Slope Fallacy!"
Guy: "No, that's just the Idiots Fallacy."
by Dr Natterjacks October 8, 2025
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