[ SLANG ][ PSYCHOLOGY ]
A stored mental impression of an event that gets treated as accurate even after the actual memory of it has faded or been distorted.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"I'm running off a reality cache from that party at this point, no idea what actually happened versus what I've told myself happened."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named borrowing 'cache' from computing, describing a saved, possibly outdated snapshot of an event still being referenced as if current.
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2025
PEAK POPULARITY
2025-2026 (Algorithmic Drift Era)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Gen Alpha Slang
Related To:Memory DriftIdentity CacheReality Fork
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[ SLANG ][ PSYCHOLOGY ]
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