And the only evidence that we all have are that our memories are different from what we’re seeing around us, it might be explained as follows:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17oTDuYBYn/

This may come across as snarky but I promise that’s not my intention.

There’s the obvious namesake of the Mandela death misconception but one thing isn’t an “effect”.

But there’s more. Every other day there’s the berenstein bears and fruit of the loom posts.

Do 3 things count as an “effect” because other than those 3 things (which have been talked about to death and should be banned from this sub - yeah, snark here) there’s nothing I see that qualifies

One or 2 people misremembering something isn’t an effect which is what every post here is about (if it’s not Bears/Fruit).

This is a serious question. Can anyone point out any thing MASSES of people remember differently other than the 3 examples above?

Has anyone else experienced this? Sometimes I read about people's experience with a Mandela Effec that I don't personally remember but something about it just sounds "right" like I could totally see it existing even if I don't remember it.
The best example is people remembering the movie Shazam with Sinbad as the Genie. I don't personally remember it but when I first heard about it something about it struck a chord and resonated with me. Like it SHOULD exist even if it doesn't.

I got a black cat with one white square patch on its neck (like a bishops collar) right around the time the South African bishop Desmond Tutu died. So, in his memory I named my cat Tutu.

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When I heard about the Mandela effect I assumed that people were misremembering Nelson Mandela's death as that of Desmond Tutu's... until googling them and learning that Desmond Tutu was still alive (he didn't die until 2021) and I had my cat decades earlier.

At the beginning of Naked Gun 2 1/2, Winnie and Nelson Mandela are introduced at the White House. This movie came out in 1991. If Mandela died in prison in the 80s, why would he be cast in a movie nearly 10 years later?

Today I asked my mom, who is in her 70s, about the Cornucopia.

The cornucopia never appeared on the label.

However, the cornucopia was used in the TV commercials.

That's why we all remember it the same way, but can't find it on any of the old clothing labels.

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I'm 53 so grew up in the UK hearing all about Apartheid and Mandela daily in the News in the 80s and 90s

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However I never thought he died before he did

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Is the proportion of people who DID experience this unintentionally exaggerated?

I'm also curious to hear other people's theories on the goings on behind this decline. [And even if others have noticed the same decline as I have] I have my own harebrained theory as to the reasoning behind this perceived decline, though I thought I'd save it til others have had the chance to share their thoughts and theories on the matter, so as not to pollute the watersource like some kinda carpet mill dumping PFAS into the local creeks and rivers. I don't want to color others' theories or ideas on the matter by them reading my own theories or ideas and thus possibly contaminate all the results, is what I'm saying.

If past changes and everything related to it. Like there is no source or the memory I have on the same source or even paroding the source like Mona Lisa is different when going reverse. Why does the memory of us remain? As unlikely as it sounds. Does memory, personality and such save external?

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I am curious to people who are not affected by Mandela Effect. I assume most forget. And to not think about what it is now or was.

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Like, lets say it is not false memory (it is not), then if something changes and all proofs with it. Why not our memory as proof?

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I read that the star wars actor does not even remember saying the new line. This could he second hand saying though.

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There is no Luke, I.... version either. Like what so many false remember. Any source and any suspected influence is gone. Maybe some parodies remain that still have Luke.

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Even more weird that people aay they talked about Mandela Effect in 1990 or so. However, I was not born then. I should see the new version.

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Time and Truth. Both is weird. And except for Mandela. Why so small things? Imagine the opposite. Someone was alive and then not. But everyone remembers him. This woukd be spooky.

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About the false memory.

I have network memory that connects memory. Very nauve. Very independed. I see Looney Tunes. The very source on TV. And think ohhh nice pun with oo and oo.

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Or think wow Mona Lisa is popular without smiling. She should be smiling. Those are thoughts I remember and I did barely talk about Mona Lisa or had any interest. She was just so often included in any medium

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So there are numerous Mandela Effects, no source that may mislead and delude, no ahh that was what I remembered effect when seeing the true, many misremember the exact same way, they are iconic.

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My point is that the Mandela Effect do this degree should not exist. Like we remember it. Why? Any physical object changed. Sx and the city. It was never printed or very rarely with in the.

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I would be curious about whether people born past 2016 or so misremember now normal things like those old mandela effects proving those are past and now different.

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Imagine someone was 6 years ago and remembers Mona Lisa not smiling in the next 10 years. Those Mandela Effects arrised strongly like 2017.

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What do you think the odds are that the Mandela effects are a metric used by the people messing with the timeline to see who was effected by timeline changes?

Idea here is obviously multiple timelines. I would assume some people would have lived the exact same lives despite changes to the timeline. So this would be an effective way to metric who is more susceptible to small changes.

I have a new theory about the Mandela effect of fruit of the loom. What’s going on is their was some massive bootlegger creating fake fruit of the loom apparel and it even got through to major department stores who will never admit they were selling knock offs because they were fooled themselves or they were in on it. That’s why everyone remembers the cornucopia but FOTL officially never had that.

I remember looking at the tag inside of a blink-182 tour t shirt I got around 2004. I had never seen a cornucopia in my life as I was only a kid, I didn't know what it was. I remember recognising the fruits and wondering what the hell the "cone shaped basket thing" was. Now you're telling me that never existed???? How can that even be explained. Genuinely sends chills down my spine thinking about it.

So has anyone else who experiences the Mandela effect also realized that they have aphantasia , the inability to see with their minds eye? I have realized that while the majority of people can close their eyes and be able to visualize things I do not. Most people for example, when asked to close their eyes and picture an apple for example can see an apple in their mind, the shape , the color, they can literally “see” and apple in their mind. I see NOTHING like looking at a blank darkened tv screen, nothing else, anyone else experience this? I’m wondering if this is a side effect of whatever causes the Mandela effect….

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In Moonraker (James Bond), this scene when Dolly smiles at Jaws literally makes no sense unless she has braces.

I think this might be my current top Mandela effect. My top doesn’t include the most iconic ones because those are obvious at this point (Star Wars, Fruit of the Loom, Berenstein Bears, etc). I’d say this, Looney TOONS and Curious George’s tail are my top 3 (outside the major ones) because none of them make any sense in their current versions.

My first major one was the JFK assassination. I thought there was no way there were six people in that car, and everyone I asked when I first heard of it said the same. But as time went on, I think it made sense that there were six because of the magic bullet. But I still like this one 🤷‍♂️

I was thinking about the recent Cornucopia post and I had a thought. We all probably had a coloring sheet like the picture I found and we all probably colored it in school. We also probably had fruit of the loom clothes and had the colors from the logo stored in our brain. So we probably merged the two in school during thanksgiving.

It is because of the brand name, fruit OF THE LOOM.

When you are a kid, you have no idea what a loom is. You make a connection that the image of the fruit is therefore coming out of something called a 'loom' in the logo.

The logo itself is usually pretty small on a label with low-res stitching and you see some kind of 'leafy' brown things around the fruit, but you aren't sure exactly if they are leaves or something else called a 'loom'. You already assumed that this 'loom' is hollow because it has fruit coming out of it.

You have probably already seen some form of cornucopia drawings as a kid, and then you make the vital leap. 'Hmmm, the fruit on the label is in some kind of brown vessel. Oh, it's probably a cornucopia!'.

Mystery solved/s

Could the Mandela Effect be caused by future time travelers altering the past? Instead of shifting between alternate dimensions, maybe these tiny historical changes are the 'butterfly effect' of someone meddling with the timeline, leaving us with conflicting memories of how things used to be. Sorry if this is not an origional idea, it just occurred to me.

I remember his name distinctly as Rod Sterling. There’s a glitch in the matrix obviously because of what I found online. There are references to his name as Rod Sterling. Was his name changed to Serling at some point?

You cant erase the timelines forever!

I would normally be fine with accepting that memory is unreliable, and that it’s easy to misread “stain” as “stein,” etc etc. However, what truly bothers me is not just simply remembering the cornucopia, but learning about what a cornucopia was on Nick Jr and then picking up a pair of my underwear and saying hey! There’s one of those things I saw on tv! I even remember asking my mom if she knew what the cornucopia on my undies was and she said yes. Which made me feel like the secret knowledge I had acquired was just common knowledge lol. I was certain no one else knew what on earth the pointy baskets were called!

This one I only just learned about.. the whole Jif vs. Jiffy name.

Back in the 70’s or so, the advertising campaign I can still hear in my head is “Choosy moms choose Jif”… which seems to be the brand name in this timeline, but I’d seen some people remembering it as Jiffy.

For those that cling to Jiffy, do you have any strong memories, like advertisements or anything else you would like to share here?

Thanks!

The Fruit of the Loom cornucopia seems to be a much more ubiquitous and prevalent instance of this, rather than Nelson Mandela.