Current Events > First time actually getting Mandela affected

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Thought the effect was a meme

But I remember Magenta from blue's clues being a boy

I vividly remember being SHOCKED when I found out and then SHOCKED again when someone told me I was wrong.

It's not the same, but I used to get the movies 3 Days of the Condor, Night of the Generals, and Day of the Jackal mixed up all the time. It's not that I have trouble mixing up the stories, all three of them are very distinct movies, I just mix up the titles. I own copies of each, and they're on different shelves, and it was only recently that I remembered which one was which and which one was on which shelf.

Corbenik posted...

But I remember Magenta from blue's clues being a boy

Magenta was always a girl

Green puppy is the boy puppy.

Pretty sure its call the Manila affect or effect

Cephalopods posted...

Magenta was always a girl

Green puppy is the boy puppy.

I don't even remember anyone that wants green except for Steven

Damn wonder what else is different in this timeline.

You should go to the Mandela effect subreddit and see how many people will corroborate with you.

the sha'zaam thing was just subconscious racism, mixing up kazaam with sinbad, who was pretty big in child movies in the 90s.

the barenstain bears werent necessarily mandela effect, its just that people presumed it was barenstein since that is a far more popular name, especially popular suffix for jewish names. feinstein, weinstein, barenstein, etc. i truly dont think anyone took the time to specifically notice an "e" there, as opposed to some of the below ones....

pikachu's tail wasn't a mandela effect per se, as a lot of knockoffs (which absolutely dominated the pokemon merch industry back in the day, and probably still) had slightly differing designs. people are remembering this for real.

monopoly man having a monocle is a simple mashup of mr peanut, who wore the same outfit and were popular around the same time. i guess one could consider this a legit mandela, even though it's clearly a memory mashup of two distinct things (i.e. like shazaam was)

The one that gets me the most is thinking there is a wicker thing ("cornucopia") in the fruit of the loom logo. I think a lot of people thought that was a "loom". could also be the result of counterfeits/knockoff brands. most likely its a true mandela effect -- conflating the FOTL logo with common thanksgiving clipart/signage/etc.

R1masher posted...

Pretty sure its call the Manila affect or effect

Manilla Influence. Because Wilson Manilla fried poison in the 80's rather than the 200's like everyone thunk.

oh and we did an assignment on nelson mandela back when he did a speaking tour in like 95. i did really well on it but because they didnt just want the smart kids to go to the speech, it was a lottery of just like 20 kids from our school of 400+ who got the tickets. We had zero black kids at the school at that point, so they couldnt give them to people who its a bit more culturally relevant to unfortunately.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

It's not the same, but I used to get the movies 3 Days of the Condor, Night of the Generals, and Day of the Jackal mixed up all the time. It's not that I have trouble mixing up the stories, all three of them are very distinct movies, I just mix up the titles. I own copies of each, and they're on different shelves, and it was only recently that I remembered which one was which and which one was on which shelf.

one of these mixups i realized fairly recently ,probably during covid, that i thought my whole life - rosie o'donnel and roseanne barr are two completely different people.

Here's a stupid one of my own:
In The Simpsons season 9 episode Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in The Curse of the Raging Hellish (pretty sure that's the complete title), when Grampa is naming off his troops and it gets to the shot of Burns on the stretcher, I could have sworn the line went along the lines of:
"...And then there was a troublesome private named Montgomery Burns. We called him "Recovery Burns".

Apparently, there is no mention of him being referred to as Recovery Burns.

This proves it. Nelson Mandela is real.

Cephalopods posted...

You should go to the Mandela effect subreddit and see how many people will corroborate with you.

The people on that subreddit think it used to be Fruit Loops and not Froot Loops. Or that it changed from Froot Loops to Fruit Loops and back to Froot Loops. Those people ARE Froot Loops.

I used to believe in sea monkeys

Ed McMahon never worked for publishers clearing house

The honk is coming from inside of the house

Tinkle bell Disney logo

Its the simulation breaking down around us, folks. Thats why all the corporate logos keep getting streamlined and losing all their old aesthetic detailing alongside glitches in the Matrix that some people encounter.

Naysaspace posted...

the sha'zaam thing was just subconscious racism, mixing up kazaam with sinbad, who was pretty big in child movies in the 90s.

I personally always remember Shaq being Kazaam, but I can see where people would conflate Sinbad and a movie about a Genie.

Wouldn't say it's racism as much as people not knowing their stories and mythology as both the storybook character Sinbad and Genies or Djinn come from Arabian folklore, and neither Sinbad or Shaq are Persian lol.

One if the best ones is that Captain Picard had a crystal he held in a ton of scenes, and nobody noticed it until it was brought up.

Dolly had braces in James Bond

It's not up for debate

Naysaspace posted...

The one that gets me the most is thinking there is a wicker thing ("cornucopia") in the fruit of the loom logo. I think a lot of people thought that was a "loom". could also be the result of counterfeits/knockoff brands. most likely its a true mandela effect -- conflating the FOTL logo with common thanksgiving clipart/signage/etc.

https://www.trademarkia.com/fruit-of-the-loom-73006089
You can find decades of people mentioning the cornucopia.

Even if you look up "Dolly wore braces in Moonraker" you'll get so many conflicting reports from theatre reviews, TV watchers and VHS owners that I still consider it an ME today.

Cephalopods posted...

Magenta was always a girl

Green puppy is the boy puppy.

was he called Green?

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

It's not the same, but I used to get the movies 3 Days of the Condor, Night of the Generals, and Day of the Jackal mixed up all the time. It's not that I have trouble mixing up the stories, all three of them are very distinct movies, I just mix up the titles. I own copies of each, and they're on different shelves, and it was only recently that I remembered which one was which and which one was on which shelf.

Night of the Generals is a top 5 movie for me. Havent seen it a decade though. Great cast, good story and intresting time period to set it in.

Every Mandela effect has a reasonable pop culture explanation, or they work on basic flaws in human memory.

For example, the Berenstain Bears one is the one that hit me first and hardest, but the truth is, we see various famous Berensteins, and just people with a -stein in their last name while -stain is much less common.

Also the fact we read these books as children...

Torgo posted...

Every Mandela effect has a reasonable pop culture explanation

Yup.

Aliens.