I've been a little brother for all 51+ years of my life, and I've never once said to my brother "hey bro" or "hey, it's your brother calling" or any of that shit. No one says that! Except in movies!
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I will say that I occasionally call Anna "Daughter Mine," but that started as a goof after watching "Sherlock" in which Mycroft says "Brother Mine" several times.
I've seen people say that over-obvious exposition in recent stuff is tied to the desire to reach people who are scrolling their phones while stuff on their tvs play. Might be an angle to look at.
I definitely noticed this type of exposition (including using character names a lot) when I was closed-captioning daytime soap operas 20-25 years ago, but, of course, that's when they were assuming their audience was housewives who had the TV on while they were doing laundry, or whatever.
my wife actually does answer phone calls with her brother with "hey brother..." but shes doing an explicit reference to a TV show (how Buster says it in Arrested Development)
One of the favorite things I’ve seen recently is when the new pope’s brother called him back on air during an interview and the first thing the pope said was “why didn’t you pick up?”
I will sometimes start texts to my brother "hey little bro" but it's 100% sarcastic because he's more than a foot taller than me and has been since probably middle school.
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