Comment by llamageddon01 on 19/10/2021 at 21:15 UTC*

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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2

“Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way".

A phrase posted when people bemoan the fact that they’ve spent a great deal of effort to find what they've been led to believe would be valuable, only to find out that the value isn't what they expected. A long-standing movie trope called the “Worthless Treasure Twist”[1], this meme is seriously clichéd[2], making it an ideal Reddit response, often prompting a Comment Chain where ‘X’ and ‘Y’ refer to whatever the post was about:

1: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorthlessTreasureTwist

2: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/maybe-the-real-treasure-was-the-friends-we-made-along-the-way

Maybe the real X was the Y we made along the way
The real X is always in the comments
The real X was inside you all along

This is just one example of many phrasal templates known as “Snowclones[3]”.

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu0ve1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

*See Also:**

Comment Chain[4]
everyfuckingthread[5] (encyclopaedia)
r/everyfuckingthread (subreddit)
Lost for Words[6]
Puns and Pop-Culture References[7]
Snowclone[8]

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhi95gm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhij9nm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hho6end/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhqxawp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

8: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu0ve1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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