Pac-Man effect

English

Etymology

In reference to the arcade game Pac-Man (1980), where the player character can warp through a tunnel from one side of the screen to the other.

Proper noun

the Pac-Man effect

  1. (informal) The flat-earth belief that someone attempting to go over the edge of the flat Earth would teleport to the other side.
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