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Not the originator of the term

You can see pretty clearly the term existed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s using Google's ngram viewer

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Debbie+Downer&year_start=1990&year_end=2005&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 Donatj (talk) 22:45, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I was hoping someone else would say this. No way did this character originate the term. She was named after it! — tooki (talk) 15:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]