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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Agreeable_Poem_7278 on 2025-10-21 08:12:15+00:00.
My 8-year-old niece was visiting and would not stop talking about some Minecraft YouTuber she's obsessed with. She was going on and on about his new series.
Trying to be the "cool" uncle, I said, "Oh yeah, I used to watch him! But honestly, I think his content really fell off a cliff a few years ago."
Her face immediately went white. Her bottom lip started trembling. "He... he DIED?" she whispered.
I realized my mistake. In her world, "fell off a cliff" is not a metaphor for a decline in quality; it's a literal, tragic death for a cartoon character. I spent the next hour trying to explain the concept of a metaphor to a sobbing child while frantically pulling up the YouTuber's active channel to prove he was still alive. She is now convinced I'm a liar who tried to trick her about a man's death.
TL;DR: Used a common idiom to describe a YouTuber's declining quality; my young niece thought I was announcing his tragic, literal death.