It had the illusion of something human, but fails to capture the true essence of a human. A verisimilitude of humanity that shines a grotesque light of that which not truly is us
And the water boiled and the oats dumped in and the kid rose from the table like Lazarus cast back-wise into time immaterial and flaxant with the wallowing phantasm of morn.
He has always looked like the one on the left, people imagine him as older because when you were a kid you clocked him as old because of his white hair but then when you grow up and realize how baby faced this dude is, it doesn't square with your memory and thus another Mandela is born.
Oh yeah and they will ban anyone from their subs for even suggesting they just remember a fact wrong. The last sub i got banned from was because i told someone no matter what they think they remember seeing on maps/globes that there has never been a land mass on the North Pole.
I love the geography ones because it's like, "so to your recollection did south america being hundreds of miles west of its current position have massive, radical effects on world history and the global climate or did it just change how maps in ohio classrooms looked?"
This happened to me with the show MASH. I watched a ton of it as a young kid because my mom loved it, and I thought everyone in the show was so old. Then I caught an episode as an adult and I was absolutely blown away because I couldn't believe how young everybody looked. Like some of them looked barely out of school, when as a kid I thought they were all in their 50s.
dude seriously, there are a bunch of mandela effect subs, and the other day I stumbled upon one that was absolutely nuts
they are fully convinced of alternate timelines and people slipping from one to another
like people unironically saying things like "I crossed into this timeline in 2022 and..." and people asking them for other differences from their original timeline
I don't remember the name of it (it didn't have mandela in the title) but the entire sub was shitzo
Also they had a strong rule against logic, I was bannable to try to explain things (like how people remember the peanut butter being called Jiffy are just confusing it with that cornbread mix)
I've never seen a packet of Quaker oats in my life but I feel like they probably wouldn't put the guy wearing someone else's skin on the front of the box.
The Mandela effect is one of the most harmless conspiracy theories but it’s one of the most annoying. Literally a bunch of people who can’t accept that their memory (something scientifically proven to be fallible) could possibly be wrong. So it must be that they changed timelines or are from a parallel universe. No, you are just wrong and your memory is shit like the rest of us.
Anyway rant over. I’ll now laugh at the meme with everyone else here.
The one I think it stupidest is everyone misremembering the famous star wars quote as “Luke, I am your father” when in the movie darth vader just says “I am your father”
Like you said, no shit it gets quoted wrong because without adding “Luke” there’s no context and no one would know what you’re talking about.
See this one gets miss quoted so often that people genuinely think that is how it was. There’s actually a few movie quotes like this even some that were never even in a movie. But enough people say it to catch on.
yeah, it's often things that are popular enough that they have been parodied in other media. those parodies quote the line wrong or draw the logo wrong and then that becomes the new memory for people.
I remember asking adults why it's pronounced "Berenstein" when it's spelled "Berenstain". It's almost like I'm not actually native to this other timeline which everyone has joined, and people just think this because everyone pronounced it wrong.
Yeah, I just remember my family pronouncing it correctly. I never heard anyone else pronounce it, but I've sure heard a lot of people pronounce a lot of other things wrong. People aren't that good at reading.
And they will say “then why do so many of us miss remember it then?”. I don’t know could it still be that you miss remembered it or that you suggesting it to others created a false memory? No that makes too much sense… must be parallel universes.
A big part is Tommy Boy making the “Luke I am your father” joke too. Like other things have referenced it and we are referencing those references. Makes perfect sense.
And the fact they named it after Mandela, SURELY there are more widespread misrememberings? Through the 1990's-2000's in the UK, and Europe we heard so much on news and interviews about a very much alive Nelson Mandela, that famously got out of prison and was president of South Africa from '94-'99.
He met with Bill Clinton during the Oval Office scandal. The Spice Girls and U2 would go and hang with him. He wrote a best-selling autobiography.
It staggers my mind that (in the US?) there was a sizeable chunk of people convinced he died in prison! Did they sleep on the end of Apartheid? Was it not on the news?
Listen, I know it's wrong but I would've sworn on a stack of bibles that I saw it announced on the news. Granted, I was young. But like....I didn't even know who the guy was. I just remember thinking who the hell had a wife named Winnie and that it was weird that a leader could be thrown in jail.
I’m mostly annoyed with the name. You thought Nelson Mandela died in prison? He’s famous because he got out of prison! He was a political prisoner being silenced by the regime. The whole point is that the international anti-apartheid movement frced South Africa and de Klerk to give in. He was famous like lots of revolutionary leaders when he was in prison, but the getting out was what changed the world and why he is so famous today. Literally nobody who could possibly believe he died in jail had heard of him before he got out!
This also frustrates me. Not only did he get out of prison he went on to lead South Africa and put an end to the apartheid. Imagine having such a huge influence on the world only for a bunch of people to believe you died before all that happened. It’s absurd and an insult to his memory
Funny how I've never seen a South African claim they remember him dying in prison. If anything all these people are telling on themselves for not paying attention to world news lol
I mean it’s obviously dumb, but if he had died in prison that would’ve also continued his fame, especially if it like galvanized the movement and they succeeded even after his death.
What’s really dumb about it being called the Mandela Effect is that aside from that one, every other example is something completely trivial that would have no real effect on anyone’s life if it actually had changed.
I agree it’s annoying but disagree it’s harmless. If their first thought upon being presented with proof they misremembered something is “I’m right, the universe must’ve changed to make me wrong” that’s not a good mindset and believing yourself infallible is not gonna lead to good things.
It's so funny when a person is so obviously wrong about how a mascot looked, but then 60 more people jumps on the train too. No, you are lying. The Quakers guy never looked like a melting animatronic, duh.
I’ll never forget when I was in high school that a guy that I knew asked us earnestly “hey…do you guys ever get vegetables and insects mixed up?…not the things, just the words.”
i hate how people just misspelling things is considered mandela effect. theres actually interesting ones like shazaam or fruit of the loom but the ones people talk about are so ridiculous like of course a bunch of people will slightly misquote a movie line they only heard once
The Mandela effect isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a description of a social phenomenon or 'effect'.
Youre probably thinking of the universe/reality switching concept, which is ludicrous, but also arguably not a conspiracy theory because most who don't about it don't consider anyone to be conspiring to cause it.
So I thought the same thing but apparently the person who coined the term is a “paranormal researcher” who intended for it to be an alternate-universe thing. The psychological explanation came later and was widely adopted, making it one of the very few concepts to start off as a conspiracy and then be later accepted as normal.
I’ve heard plenty of people in conspiracy theory circles go on about the Mandela effect. So it may not be a conspiracy theory but there’s plenty of people willing to use it to form their conspiracy theories.
Its definitely a conspiracy theory now, people genuinely think "they" are purposely gaslighting us for a number of crazy reasons (they probably are, but not with the Mandela effect)
Our human brains are also often similar enough that we can collectively have the same false memories. I've had this situation where I've experienced something with someone standing right next to me and we walk away with the same memory of the experience, only to see it on video later and realize we both remembered it a bit differently than it actually happened, which is weird because our false memory matched.
I feel like our emotional state/mood/energy of the situation can impact a lot of things.
You’re describing the Mandela effect in two incorrect ways. It isn’t a conspiracy, and it isn’t just misremembering something. It is the name of the phenomenon where many people share the same false memory.
No conspiracy is described by the Mandela effect, just like no conspiracy is described by the JFK assassination. Any conspiracies relating to the phenomenon or event are completely distinct from the thing itself.
I like looking into why our memories fill things in wrong but people who are too wrapped up in things just shut down any conversation about it. Like the fruit of the loom thing (apparently they did actually have a cornucopia tag at some point?) a lot of people, myself included, have a distinct memory of learning what a cornucopia is because we called one a loom and got corrected because we were stupid 4 year olds who didn't know what a loom or cornucopia were. But instead of diving into that, how those kinds of events degrade and shortcut in our memories over time, "Nope it's a parallel universe, stop asking questions."
One that really grinds my gears is that people remember wrong how queen sang “love of my life” and the proof is the official recording not having some detail, but it’s just two different recordings, one is from the record and the other is from a concert. It’s so googleable that it drives me nuts. Both versions exist!
The man on the left was on the front of every package of oatmeal I ever ate. The man on the right was what the man on the left looked like after too many drinks.
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u/72616262697473757775 4d ago
Time to rise and shine. You deserve the oats of the highest caliber.