![[GyoZNGmXgAAlz-X.jpg]] I personally first saw this image courtesy of [Aashish Reddy](https://x.com/_AashishReddy); it apparently originates with @supersylvie_, in 2024 ([Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy)). I think this is *especially* relevant in sifting through many-to-one feedback like you might get on Youtube or from users of your app: the "audience" isn't a walking contradiction; it just doesn't exist - there's only smaller, mutually exclusive clusters. But there's also something like the inverse of this? Or like an existence thing - a Rule of the internet - something about how for any A¬B Goomba *there exists* a B¬A Goomba, and they *will* wade into an argument. See, e.g., "Woke Hukou": ![[Woke Hukou]] (This could, of course, just be a joke! A finger curls on the monkey's paw: there's always a B¬A Goomba, but sometimes it's because A¬B just carves out an evolutionary niche due to comedy. But *then* you get bitten by [[Poe's Law, Poe's Punk Bar, and Irony Poisoning]].) When this *backfires*, then you're being [Damned by a Fool's Praise](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DamnedByAFoolsPraise), or as I first heard it: > Gabriel Morton of _[Let's Drown Out](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut "/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut")_ calls this the "Man Covered in Shit" problem. You could have the most obviously correct argument in the world, but if a man covered in shit walks up, points at you, and shouts, "I agree with _this_ guy!" then your argument will become permanently associated with the man covered in shit, and who in their right mind wants to agree with _him_?