Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Jannes]

When your social backbone is wrong. 

Especially when you speak up and dont conform and then seemingly get support from people but have to confirm to their bias and interpretation of the situation because you dont want to upset them because you are so desperate for support.

[Leo Gura]

5 hours ago, Yimpa said:

buying Apple products

Definitely a conformist aspect to Apple fans.

[OBEler]

University system with credit points  biggest conformity I have fallen into. I have two complete degrees, a master in economics and diploma in computer science.

I can just laught at me how serious I took these systems for granted. Only at the end I realized more and more what's going on. What a waste of life but I would just play computer games instead. The second biggest conformity I have fallen into.

You need to be a conformist to do them. Especially video games.

Edited Sunday at 09:17 PM by OBEler

[Yimpa]

On 12/5/2025 at 3:04 PM, Eskilon said:

God is conformed to infinity

How does Infinity conform to another if there is no other 🤔

[Nemra]

Museums and Tours.

[Nemra]

How people do weddings.

[Leo Gura]

Even porn is conformist.

Edited Sunday at 09:50 PM by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

2 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Even porn is conformist.

Hell yea, all the sex positions are conformity too. 

[Eskilon]

3 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Even porn is conformist.

Alien porn

Contemplate, you never invented a new position.

Edited Sunday at 09:53 PM by Eskilon

[Nemra]

How people learn piano or any musical instrument.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

I wrote this thread, I think this is a pretty good example of conformity.

 

[Leo Gura]

7 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

all the sex positions are conformity too.

No, since there are only like ten reasonable positions.

What's conformity is all the gimmicky flashy positions that are completely uncomfortable for real sex.

Edited Sunday at 10:00 PM by Leo Gura

[Eskilon]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

reasonable positions

You are conforming to reasonable positions 

 

Edited Sunday at 10:00 PM by Eskilon

[Nemra]

3 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

you are conforming to reasonable positions 

People have no idea how non-conformist a porn can be! 

[Leo Gura]

4 minutes ago, Nemra said:

People have no idea how non-conformist a porn can be! 

Those Australians are true non-conformists with their kangaroo porn.

Edited Sunday at 10:09 PM by Leo Gura

[Yimpa]

Roller Coaster Conformity Study
(shoutout to my ketamine/5-MeO therapist for this example)

A study with 12 participants examined how social framing influences subjective experience.

Method:

Participants were randomly divided into two groups before riding a roller coaster:
    •    Group A (n=6): Told beforehand the ride was “scary”
    •    Group B (n=6): Told beforehand the ride was “fun”

Results:

Post-ride surveys revealed participants’ reported experiences aligned with their priming:
    •    Group A reported negative experiences
    •    Group B reported positive experiences

Conclusion:

This demonstrates how external framing and social suggestion can shape our interpretation of identical physical experiences—a clear example of conformity influencing perception. Same ride, different experience.

[Nemra]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Those Australians are true non-conformists with their kangaroo porn.

[Carl-Richard]

25 minutes ago, Nemra said:

How people learn piano or any musical instrument.

I took guitar lessons for about about a year or so and then I spent the next 15 years just improvising every time I play. If you ask me to play a song, I will actually struggle to find one I can remember in its entirety (although I learned essentially Metallica's whole discography the first year or so, then some Opeth, Tool and Death songs, but really, so few songs).

I remember one of my cousins (he is much older) came to visit at my dad's place back when I had been playing for like two years or so. I showed a song that I had made as an assignment in music class, and it was some kind of metalcore-inspired song where I took elements from a blues progression I had learned from my guitar teacher and integrated it with something that sounded like a rip-off from some Bullet For My Valentine song.

But in the middle of the main riff, I went from an E-scale to an A-scale, and my cousin who is a math nerd and classically trained musician (and on the spectrum), told me "yeah that was very wrong, but it sounds cool 😅". And my dad was like "hey ". And internally I was like "but teach me then". After that, I developed a severe complex around whether or not I was playing music "properly" (in terms of Western music theory), and it took like seriously 10 years before I realized that all my musical idols essentially didn't give a shit about that and just played whatever they thought sounded cool.

Edited Sunday at 10:20 PM by Carl-Richard

[Nemra]

Memes

[Nemra]

@Carl-Richard, luckily, no one around me had a musical degree in my family.

I would drive anyone around me mad practicing for hours, although I'm still not that great at playing the piano.