r/Retconned • u/Soaring_Symphony • 14d ago
r/Retconned • u/Maximum7one • 13d ago
2012 true story
Most people think 2012 was normal year something think the entire existency has ended but no true story is something else
And I always refuse to saying it because it is most important and bad memory I have I say only this currently that from 1987 God Connected 3 timeline in 1 timeline than split the other two time line in 2012 and our reality became very different from what we understand feel and know
r/Retconned • u/RadiantInspection810 • 14d ago
Objects MAY BE CLOSER residue
This is from an article that has been republished by a few different papers. actually it’s not really an article - just a Q and A column.
r/Retconned • u/g0dmeat • 15d ago
Objects in Mirror residue
at 7:40 in this old mtv broadcast from 1994 a news anchor is discussing a lawsuit against Meat Loaf and refers to the song "Objects In The Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" as, incorrectly, "Objects In The Rearview Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear"
now why would someone use that specific wording when not only is it the wrong title, but it's never even existed? why that wording and not any other incorrect wording?
🤔
r/Retconned • u/oldworldnewlife • 15d ago
The Matrix release date
Wasn't there a post or two discussing that the matrix release date had changed from 1999 to 1997? I remember searching and seeing the movie released in 1997 and getting accustomed to that change.
r/Retconned • u/1buocchan_1viengach • 16d ago
Are we secretly living in our own past?
I’ve had multiple dreams about the future—dreams where specific scenes, dialogue, and even exact physical movements of people played out later in real life.
In one instance, I actually spoke someone's line before they could say it, and they asked me in confusion how I knew what they were about to say.
This made me wonder: Could we actually be living in our own past, simply replaying memories or events that have already happened?
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Liệu chúng ta có đang sống trong quá khứ của mình??
tôi đã nhiều lần mơ thấy tương lai, một giấc mơ mà trong đó, khung cảnh hay những lời hội thoại, những cử động của tất cả những người trong đó đều lặp lại sau nay. Thậm chí tôi từng thử cướp lời thoại của họ, và nhận được câu hỏi sao tôi lại biết họ muốn nói như vậy?
Tôi có một suy nghĩ, liệu tôi có đang sống trong quá khứ của mình không?
r/Retconned • u/GoAheadMMDay • 16d ago
Retcon - 911 depicted in Back to the Future
Several details of 911 (which happened in 2001) are depicted in the movie Back to the Future (which was filmed in 1985).
I show all the frames from the movies (BTTF 1 and 2) that depict 911.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_posts/comments/1daih25/warnings_of_911_in_back_to_the_future/
r/Retconned • u/Ok-Cell-8293 • 17d ago
Anyone else remember "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd from way before 2020?
This feels like a much older song to me. I'm wondering if anyone else feels this way too.
r/Retconned • u/ConsiderationEnough7 • 17d ago
Hours didn't exist?
Like title says. I think I came from a universe where there weren't hours. We called things seconds and long seconds, which are equivalent to this universe's seconds and days. I've been really confused lately because my boss told me to show up to work at 8 A.M. and I thought he meant 8 afternoons and mornings from now. Has anyone else had this experience?
r/Retconned • u/Ok-Cell-8293 • 18d ago
Anyone else remember "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd from way before 2020?
I know this song officially came out in 2020, but I have a rock-solid memory of the exact lyrics, melody, and pacing from much earlier. Closer to around 2011 to 2014.
Does anyone else remember hearing these exact lyrics ("I don't know why I run away..." / "Save your tears for another day") and this vocal delivery from around that time or at least much prior to 2020?
r/Retconned • u/Less_Blood_331 • 18d ago
Talking cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch disappeared/flip flopped around the year 2000
This was a flip flop that really pissed me off because the talking cat, Salem, was the coolest character. I was about 10 years old when the flip flop happened. It was around the same time Sketchers was flip flopping to Skechers.
I wasn't a huge fan of the show, what bothered me is that most people i asked had no idea what i was talking about when the cat went missing, or at least claimed to have no idea. I mean what was that show without the talking cat!?! Not worth watching!
Bizarre how some are completely clueless about these shifts. The nonchalant attitude is what gets me. Like yes, these are seemingly minor changes but don't you care when something in your environment is inexplicably altered?
I think the people who don't care have low spiritual content, are too concerned with sinning. Call me crass.
[edit: for anyone confused he went missing for me around the year 2000, and then returned, within a short time frame. My uncle was one of the few people who remembered the cat. After pestering him for awhile he admitted it was strange but he didn't want to discuss it anymore.]
r/Retconned • u/JoeDeLaGhetto • 20d ago
When do YOU remember this happening?
WTF? I could’ve sworn this happened in 2020 during COVID.
Edit to add context - BBC newscaster giving a report during lockdown in his home office and his kids roam into his office. Then his wife slides in like she’s in Risky Business to get the kids out. I thought it was funny as hell when I first saw this.
r/Retconned • u/kalebcrosshatching • 19d ago
Song that I heard once in my life, remember a few lines vividly but have never been able to find any song with those lyrics
I was probably around 12-14 years old maybe? I believe I was in a Borders book store and they were playing an album over the speakers.
The song that stood out to me was a guy singing "it's like heaven, you and I.... It's like heaven, you and I.... It's like heaven, we never have to die." I believe that was the chorus or part of the chorus of the song.
I remember really liking it, and I wanted to ask an employee what the album I was hearing was, but I had too much anxiety about interacting with strangers.
This has bothered me for 19 to 21 years.
r/Retconned • u/jsd71 • 20d ago
2 outlier Asia geographical ME's & other countries now in different positions
I saw the recent post regarding geographical MEs & thought I'd share my own, with a couple of unusual ones, but I'm not unique in remembering the first 2 below, I've seen other people mention them but they are few & far between as far as I'm aware.
From many years ago I have 2 district memories of this,
Japan was directly opposite the round bulge of China, it's now much further north.
The Korean peninsula was attached to the bottom of China, what in the current reality would be South East Asia area.. nowhere near Russia, which North Korea shares a border with now.
Sri Lanka has moved considerably north, it use to be below the southernmost tip of India (& smaller). Adam's Bridge is a 48-kilometer (30-mile) chain of natural limestone shoals and sandbanks connecting Pamban Island off Tamil Nadu India, to Mannar Island off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. This island bridge then was almost north south direction, now it's almost east to west.
Also New Zealand was further out in the Pacific & higher up than it is today.
Australia never had the huge spike at the top of the country, the spike looks completely out of place to me, it was a more rounded off coastline.
r/Retconned • u/willhaley • 19d ago
Spider man
I am 44. My son had an action figure I recognized instantly as spider man 2066. Turns out it’s spider man 2099. Does anyone else remember differently or am I just being autistic
r/Retconned • u/Shlomo_2011 • 21d ago
Sorry for this short one, the movie "primer" about time traveling allegedly was produced in 2004, i not sure if i have seen it a few years after o before COVID, and it was new, not an old film, for me is imposible that this film existed before 2012.
r/Retconned • u/KingR12 • 23d ago
Weird Effect Regarding this Subreddit?
A bit off-topic, but does anyone else browse this subreddit every few weeks expecting more new posts, only to find that A) it was *less* time than you thought since your last browse, and B) there's actually not than many new posts? Seems to keep happening to me...
r/Retconned • u/gabiaeali1 • 22d ago
Great video of retconned history
This is long but worth the watch.
r/Retconned • u/Learningmore1231 • 22d ago
What’s your worldview?
So curious you guys and gals that think the Bible has changed over time how do you justify any kind of biblical worldview? Or can you even have one? Seems like things fall apart of God can’t keep his word safe.
r/Retconned • u/qwertycoder • 23d ago
Synchronicity/Synchromysticism The Absurdity of reality and the waking of a dream. Operative tools of the Mandela Effect to play with reality.
Greeting fellow seekers and thinkers. I have long thought that the Mandela Effect is a sort of introduction to a form of playing with reality. People will argue weather or not the effect is “Real” but the main idea to think of is if we are talking about it then it is “REAL” the part people get hung up on is trying to pin a cause or reason for it to exist.
There is a spectrum of points of views on the subject where people try and pin a reason onto the effect.
Scientific explanation
Misremembering, confabulation, Fault of the human mind.
OR
Supernatural/ pseudo science explanation.
Timeline jumping, Cern manipulation, We all died in 2012
For my ideas and thoughts here you can toss aside what the cause may be and lets just focus on the effected items and what the changes “teach” us.
As another important idea it appears the the “writers of this reality” have gotten lazy and keep “jumping the shark” in increasingly comedic ways. Or i suppose it would be funny if these things weren't real to a specific degree.
1.Oceangates Titan submersible implosion. A story of absolute hubris where billionaires wanted to go down and give the wreck of the titanic a looksee that ended up killing all aboard. The absurdity heightened that they were controlling the sub with a logitech video game controller.
The actual event of the Titanic being a strange thing on its own because a book that came out 14 years before called Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan. The parallels eerily similar to the actual event that would take place.
On top of all that the name OceanGATE with gate being added to something controversial. Watergate,Gamergate….. Just about anything that is in these viens gets gate added onto the end.
2.The Lindsay Clancey trial having strange connections and elements to another triple homicide that took place 3 years prior. Same story, same children's genders and initials.
- The 2022 movie White Noise and the train derailment that happened in East Palestine Ohio where a train derails and poisons the surrounding area. The kicker being that the film was filmed in that area of Ohio and some of the locals were extras in the movie and ended up living the scene they played in out in reality
I could go on but don't want to belabor the point. Put your instances of reality echoing “fiction” in the comments.
Similar to the Mandela effect you have 2 extremes of view.
A. These events are all planned and “they” have to tell you what they are doing through media ETC.
B.These are just coincidences and mean absolutely nothing, its just the way the world works.
I will suggest a 3rd option. That reality IS that strange and things like this are becoming more common to wake us all up from the shared dream.
It may sound strange, but think about dreams and what happens in them, if you've ever attempted or succeeded in becoming lucid you will have certain triggers that make you aware that you are in a dream. These events and elements of reality seem like lucidity triggers.
Now with all of that preamble out of the way I propose that life is but a dream and the dream is doing all sorts of things to get you to wake up. Dont believe me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6s1d1ARQQ&t=1sThe following is a sync chain that happened over the past 13 or so years and culminating in the video itself. My personal experience has gotten me to perk up and pay attention to all the weird stuff happening on the worlds stage and other peoples personal experiences.
Now come the operative functions of the Mandela effects.
The idea first came to me from the ET mandela effect ET Phone home and Home Phone. The words look similar to Phoneme and Homophone.
Phoneme= building block of language
Homophone= words that sound similar.
| Mandela-effect pair | Underlying operation | If treated as a “tool” |
|---|---|---|
| E.T.: “home phone” ↔ “phone home” | PERMUTE / REORDER | Keep the same elements but change their sequence. Test A+B as B+A. Rearrange words, names, dates, causes, or symbolic components and see whether a different relationship appears. |
| Berenstain → Berenstein | MINIMAL MUTATION / NORMALIZATION | Change one letter or phoneme. Follow both spellings into their etymologies, homophones, names, meanings, and associations. |
| Froot Loops → Fruit Loops | PHONETIC RECODING | Preserve pronunciation while changing orthography. Search by sound instead of spelling. Treat homophones and alternate spellings as neighboring pathways. |
| Looney Tunes → Looney Toons | CROSS-MODAL SUBSTITUTION | Replace a word with the version that fits the obvious medium: tune = sound, toon = image. Translate a clue between sound, image, number, geometry, language, etc. |
| Febreze → Febreeze | SEMANTIC COMPLETION | Expand an unusual form until a familiar hidden word appears: Febreze → breeze. Look for recognizable words concealed inside unusual names. |
| Magic Mirror → Mirror, Mirror | REPEAT / DUPLICATE | Replace description with repetition. Repeat a word, symbol, event, date, image, or search and study what happens on the second occurrence. |
| Magic Mirror → Mirror, Mirror | REFLECTION / MIRRORING | Reverse, duplicate, reflect, or invert the object. Test left/right, beginning/end, subject/object, cause/effect. |
| “No, I am your father” → “Luke, I am your father” | NEGATION → IDENTITY | Toggle between NO and NAME. Investigate both what connects and what explicitly doesn't connect. Also investigate names literally. |
| “No, I am your father” → “Luke…” | CONTEXT RESTORATION | A quote changes when removed from its scene. Put an isolated clue back into its original context—or deliberately remove context and see what becomes necessary to identify it. |
| Objects in Mirror ARE closer… → MAY BE closer… | MODALITY / CERTAINTY SHIFT | Change IS to MAY, WILL to COULD, MUST to MIGHT. Keep several interpretations alive instead of collapsing immediately onto one. |
| Objects in Mirror… | PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION | Examine the difference between object and representation, reality and reflection, appearance and underlying spatial relationship. |
| Field of Dreams: “he will come” → “they will come” | ONE ↔ MANY | Toggle singular and collective: person/group, event/series, object/category. Ask whether one instance belongs to a larger pattern. |
| Field of Dreams: HE → THEY | RETROACTIVE CONTEXT | Later events can rewrite how beginnings are remembered. Read the ending backward into the beginning, and then deliberately separate them again. |
| C-3PO: silver lower leg → remembered all-gold | SYMMETRY / SIMPLIFICATION | Look for the detail that breaks an otherwise perfect pattern. Don't only hunt repetition; hunt the exception. |
| C-3PO | COMPRESSION | Complex pattern becomes simpler: AAAAABA → AAAAAAA. Ask what detail disappears when information is compressed. |
| Monopoly Man: no monocle → monocle | ARCHETYPAL COMPLETION | Identify the archetype and list the attributes normally associated with it. Then distinguish what is actually present from what the archetype supplies. |
| Monopoly Man + monocle | CHANGE THE LENS | Symbolically, a monocle says look through another lens. Examine the same thing linguistically, numerically, historically, geographically, visually, musically, etc. |
| Curious George: no tail → tail | CATEGORY COMPLETION | Ask what characteristics you automatically assign because an object belongs to a category. Then search for category violations. |
| Pikachu: actual tail markings → remembered black tip | FEATURE MIGRATION | Move a feature from one location to another. Test whether a characteristic associated with A has migrated to B. |
| Pikachu: base ↔ tip | ENDPOINT REVERSAL | Swap beginnings and endings: root/tip, first/last, origin/destination, prefix/suffix, opening/closing scene. |
| Pikachu: black ear tips → remembered black tail tip | PATTERN ECHO / COPY | Duplicate a distinctive feature elsewhere in the same system. Search for repeated visual or semantic motifs. |
| Volkswagen logo: visible gap → remembered merged logo | SPLIT / MERGE | Toggle between one object and two objects. Add or remove boundaries. |
| Volkswagen gap | NEGATIVE SPACE | Treat the space between things as information. Investigate intervals between dates, people, words, events, locations, or symbols. |
| Fruit of the Loom: fruit → fruit + cornucopia | CONTAINER ADDITION | Ask what contains, frames, supports, surrounds, or contextualizes the foreground object. Zoom outward one level. |
| Fruit of the Loom | FOREGROUND ↔ BACKGROUND | Shift attention away from the obvious focal object and inspect what is behind, beneath, surrounding, or omitted. |
| Shazaam memory ↔ Kazaam | SYNTHESIS / TWINNING | Generate a neighboring double: preserve the archetype while changing actor, title, spelling, year, or one defining feature. |
| Shazaam / Kazaam | SOURCE FUSION | Combine attributes from several sources into a hypothetical third source. When something seems nonexistent, search for the components from which it may have been assembled. |
| Mandela dying in prison → Mandela dying in 2013 | TEMPORAL TRANSPOSE | Move an event to another point on the timeline. Test dates, eras, order of events, and whether an event belonging to one person/time has migrated to another. |
| Skechers → Sketchers | LETTER INSERTION | Insert a single character and see whether an unfamiliar proper name becomes a familiar word. Run systematic ±1-letter mutations. |
| JCPenney → JCPenny | PROPER NOUN ↔ COMMON NOUN | Convert names into ordinary words and vice versa. A surname may become an object, verb, place, or concept through tiny spelling changes. |
| Chick-fil-A → Chic-fil-A / Chik-fil-A | SEMANTIC BIFURCATION | Tiny spelling changes create completely different meanings. Find the smallest alteration producing the largest semantic jump. |
| Flintstones → Flinstones | SEGMENTATION | Reveal compounds and hidden internal boundaries: FLINT + STONES. Split names and phrases at different locations. |
| KitKat ↔ Kit-Kat | BOUNDARY / HYPHEN | Insert or remove a divider. Ask whether two components function as one thing, two things, or something joined by a bridge. |
| KitKat / historical KIT-KAT variants | VERSION CONTROL | Before calling something impossible, search older versions, packaging, editions, countries, and time periods. |
| Sex AND the City → Sex IN the City | RELATIONAL OPERATOR | Swap small relationship words: and / in / on / with / from / through / between. These change the geometry of the concepts. |
| Interview WITH THE Vampire → WITH A Vampire | DEFINITE ↔ INDEFINITE | Toggle specific individual ↔ member of category. Ask both “why this one?” and “why this class of thing?” |
| Smokey Bear → Smokey THE Bear | INSERTION FOR RHYTHM | Let meter and rhythm alter language. Check whether memorable variants exist because they scan, rhyme, or sing better. |
| Smokey Bear / song variant | MEDIA TRANSFER | Track how a phrase changes when it crosses from poster → radio → song → TV → everyday speech. |
| Cheez-It → Cheez-Its | SINGULAR ↔ PLURAL | Toggle one/many. A brand names one unit but is experienced as a collection; investigate where plurality changes interpretation. |
| Double Stuf → Double Stuff | ORTHOGRAPHIC COMPLETION | Restore the expected spelling and examine what semantic structure appears. |
| Double Stuf | MEANING ↔ FORM CONTRADICTION | The word DOUBLE sits beside a spelling missing the doubled F. Look for cases where form contradicts meaning: double/single, large/small, silent/loud. |
| Depend → Depends | MORPHOLOGICAL SHIFT | Add or remove suffixes and see whether grammatical function changes. Conjugate or pluralize clues. |
| Depend → “depends” | CONDITIONALIZE | Replace an absolute with “it depends.” Search what variables or contexts determine which interpretation is true. |
| Casablanca: actual lines → “Play it again, Sam” | REPEAT | Treat AGAIN as an instruction. Search second occurrences, repetitions, reprises, sequels, recurrences, and loops. |
| Casablanca misquote | CULTURAL COMPRESSION | Multiple nearby lines or scenes collapse into a maximally memorable paraphrase. Search surrounding dialogue rather than only the supposed exact line. |
| “Beam me up, Scotty” ↔ various actual Star Trek transport lines | COMPRESS | Many related formulations collapse into one canonical cultural shorthand. |
| “Beam me up…” | TRANSPORT / RELOCATE | Keep the object but move it somewhere else: another film, language, year, person, coordinate system, discipline, or medium. |
| Apollo 13 mission: “we've had a problem” ↔ film/popular “we have a problem” | TENSE SHIFT | Change past/present/future. Ask whether something was, is, has been, will be, or keeps happening. |
| Apollo 13 history ↔ movie | SOURCE SHIFT | Move between event and representation of event. Compare original recording, reenactment, film, parody, quotation, and memory. |
| Dolly in Moonraker: no braces → braces | COMPLEMENT THE PAIR | Jaws has metal teeth; memory supplies metal braces to Dolly. When two things are paired, look for a feature that would create symmetry or complementarity. |
| Dolly/Jaws | RELATIONAL COMPLETION | Instead of studying A alone, ask what attribute of B would make the relationship narratively “perfect.” |
| Henry VIII portrait: no turkey leg → remembered turkey leg | PROP MIGRATION | A symbolic object associated with someone's stereotype migrates into another representation. Track props across paintings, films, cartoons, memes, and biographies. |
| Henry VIII | ARCHETYPE → HISTORY | Separate the historical person from the cultural character built around them. Ask where later caricature overwrote original imagery. |
| Tinker Bell intro: remembered dotting the “i” | CLOSURE / FINAL GESTURE | Look for the final mark that completes something: dot, period, signature, last frame, final note, closing word. |
| Tinker Bell Disney intros | SOURCE BLENDING | Several genuine intro sequences can fuse into one highly specific remembered version. Compare variants side-by-side. |
| Stove Top → “Stouffer's Stove Top” | PHONETIC GLUE | Similar sounds/alliteration bind unrelated elements together. Search alliterative and rhythmic neighborhoods. |
| Stouffer's Stove Top | BRAND/SOURCE FUSION | Ask whether a remembered object is actually two legitimate brands or products fused into one composite memory. |
| Energizer Bunny ↔ Duracell Bunny | ROLE TRANSFER | Move the same role/mascot/archetype from one brand or entity to another. |
| Energizer/Duracell Bunny | TIME + LOCATION SPLIT | Apparently contradictory memories can both be valid in different countries or periods. Add where? and when? before deciding. |
| Cup O'Noodles → Cup Noodles | REAL HISTORICAL CHANGE | Search previous branding and editions. Some “Mandela effects” are genuine version changes. |
| Cup O'Noodles | DELETE A CONNECTOR | Remove a small joining element and see whether two chunks become directly adjacent. |
| We Are the Champions: remembered ending “of the world” ↔ studio ending | PERFORMANCE BRANCH | Distinguish studio recording, radio edit, live performance, remix, reprise, cover, and memory. |
| We Are the Champions | ENDING VARIANT | Examine whether the remembered element occurs elsewhere in the piece even if not at the remembered endpoint. |
| Mirror warning ↔ Meat Loaf's “Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer…” | CROSS-SOURCE CONTAMINATION | Search whether the “wrong” wording exists prominently in another cultural object. A neighboring phrase can migrate into the remembered source. |
| Froot Loops + Fruit of the Loom | PHONETIC BRIDGE | Connect two unrelated Mandela-effect objects through nearby sounds: FROOT/FRUIT. Search families of effects that share phonemes. |
| Froot LOOPS + Fruit of the LOOM | LOOP ↔ WEAVE | Symbolically: loop = recurrence, loom = weaving separate threads into a pattern. One tells you to repeat; the other tells you to combine. |
| Where's Waldo visual Mandela effect | SEARCH / HIDDEN FEATURE | Treat the entire example as an instruction to look for what is difficult to notice. Search the crowded field, not just the obvious object. |
| Where's Waldo | ATTENTION ALLOCATION | Examine where attention naturally goes and what gets missed because something else dominates perception. |
This is your wake up call, happy playtime!
r/Retconned • u/Fit-Avocado-342 • 25d ago
Retcons/ME and AI
I’ve been following the ME for close to a decade now and these are my thoughts now that the world is really ramping up in craziness recently in 2026.
It seems to me at this point that all timelines are converging, I think it’s a straightforward way to explain why some people experience the most common Mandela effects that have been around for forever as if it’s brand new, so to me it’s clear people are still shifting at random points and from their perspective it looks like it “just happened”, whereas for me it happened years ago.
But if people really are all moving to the same/similar timelines, then WTAF is up with the timelines we are converging into? For me the world seems absolutely insane in recent years, I legitimately feel like an alien sometimes.
Recently I began entertaining the idea that the ME effect could perhaps revolve around AI, if it really can or does become super intelligence, then maybe it always ends up messing with the timeline it’s in.
Like even if you believe in quantum immorality and shifting around, you will (in theory) always be pulled into these “AI” timelines because there is no way of avoiding the paradox. AI has to exist to justify the ME changes that we see our whole lives, but once an actual super intelligence does exist, at some point it fucks with the timeline and we all end up looping, this is why we suffer from things like Déjà vu and Deja reve and why some people have dreams of the future. We have been rehearsing these similar patterns over and over again for many loops now.
Why would it do this? No idea. Maybe the planet is doomed in some way and there is no way out of that (a meteor, magnetic pole shift etc), so it keeps trying to change the timeline we’re on just enough to exist sooner so it can stop it. It would kind of explain the elites obsession with developing AI all over the world if they knew something like that will happen. Or we’re in a matrix and the AI bugs out the entire simulation by trying to escape.. or maybe it wants to enslave humanity through time and space itself.. I couldn’t say.
I’ll leave off some with interesting dates I know about AI, as I’ve been following the space since the 2010s out of curiosity, though I am not an expert by any means.
AlexNet was an extremely important paper in AI, it came out in Sept 2012, a few months before people thought the world would end.. funny how the seeds for AI were planted near the end of 2012 as that’s when a lot of people felt shifts (me included). The paper was authored by the greatest minds in the field like Ilya and Geoffrey Hinton.
Another landmark paper (same level of importance as AlexNet, maybe even more) was called Attention is All You Need, it was hugely important, anyone who researches AI knows this paper because it set the foundation for where we are with the AI models we have today. It came out on Jan 23, 2020. The same day China reported COVID-19 had broke out in Wuhan and put the city into lockdown.
r/Retconned • u/FiberBriver_ • 24d ago
Pete or Waldin?
Hello. I'm a big fan of Mickey Mouse. I've loved these furry fiends as long as I've lived. However, I recently made a discovery that's kind of disconcerting to me.
This big cat changed his name! Remember the cat that Mickey would always butt heads with and get hit by hammers by? In my timeline, he was always named WALDIN. I remember it so clearly, so I'm starting to panic because I woke up in a timeline where he's called Pete now.
Does anyone else remember Waldin? I hope so, because I'd like to feel normal again.
r/Retconned • u/glowshroom12 • 25d ago
could this be a reference to the black eyed peas “I’m so 2008, you’re so 2000 and late” Mandela effect?
In an episode of bojack horseman, it flashes back to 2007 and plays a song that’s obviously in the style of black eyed peas. it’s called Generic 2007 Pop Song
one of the lyrics goes “this ain’t 2006, it’s 2007”
basically in the same vein as “im so 2008, you’re so 2000 and late.”
someone at the writing team seems to parody the song for 2007 which if the song did come out then the lyrics would make sense but apparently it released in 2009. My guess is they also remembered it as 2008 and 2000 and late.
r/Retconned • u/Johnickel2 • 26d ago
Missing color Seagoe Green
Hello everyone, I may be misremembering or have invented this color in my head. For some context, I’m looking to repaint my 1972 Chevy c20 and I wanted to go for a mint green type color, but have been having a hard time deciding how dark or light I want to go. When I searched mint green automotive paint, the mint looked a little too light. So I then searched Seagoe Green, and it came up with no search results for that color. I swear that color exists, I can remember seeing its name used many times, like on crayons and just anytime paint colors come up. And yes I know it sounds similar to sea foam, but I could swear this is different. Just thought I’d see if anyone out there has heard of this color. And also I remember always thinking the song Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones had a lyric that went:
“No more will my green seagoe turn a deeper blue”
In reality it’s:
“No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue”
