Current Events > I think Mandela Effect is actually the most insane conspiracy theory

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"I remember something slightly different than how they really are and some other people do the same. Therefore parallel worlds are bleeding into each other. Me be wrong about something? Don't make me laugh!"

Sometimes they even skip the "some other people misremember the same thing I do" part and say anything they misremember is parallel worlds.

Actually mental.

Pretty sure nowadays whenever someone says it, they're referring to the mass mental effect rather than the parallel world theory. Though, this is the internet after all.

Idk flat earth is pretty nutty

Smashingpmkns posted...

Idk flat earth is pretty nutty

I think the wild thing is how popular it is among young people. I have seen some disturbing survey data.

I think someone is quantum leaping and fucking with things just a little bit so that I'm always arguing with my 12 year old self on stupid things like cereal boxes and music lyrics. Or it could be early onset dementia, yeah that's probably it.

Guide posted...

Pretty sure nowadays whenever someone says it, they're referring to the mass mental effect rather than the parallel world theory. Though, this is the internet after all.

Normal people do, yes. I'm talking about people who actually believe that them being unable to remember things is evidence of parallel worlds and there are people like that, just like there are flat-earthers. In fact, I would imagine a lot of them are also flat-earthers.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

"I remember something slightly different than how they really are and some other people do the same. Therefore parallel worlds are bleeding into each other. Me be wrong about something? Don't make me laugh!"

Sometimes they even skip the "some other people misremember the same thing I do" part and say anything they misremember is parallel worlds.

Actually mental.

I'm more annoyed because it always feels like a loaded question.

"To you remember the disney intro with tinkerbell doing this dot on the i with magic?"

"Sure, why?"

"BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN".

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Normal people do, yes. I'm talking about people who actually believe that them being unable to remember things is evidence of parallel worlds and there are people like that, just like there are flat-earthers. In fact, I would imagine a lot of them are also flat-earthers.

I really doubt more than an infinitesimal amount of people actually believe that. For the vast majority its just fun to observe these things that many of us remember differently, and then its fun to joke that its related to concepts we saw in science fiction.

Mandela in particular gets me. Dude you are a republican from Iowa. How would you know Mandela if he died early .

However the fuirt of the loom one...there had to have been cornucopia

Remember when the heart was on the left side of the chest?

Foppe posted...

Remember when the heart was on the left side of the chest?

Is it not?

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Is it not?

It is in the middle.

But on the left of the middle, right?

Foppe posted...

It is in the middle.

It is slightly to the left if you had to pick a side.

cjsdowg posted...

It is slightly to the left if you had to pick a side.

Still placed in the middle of the chest.

ssjevot posted...

I think the wild thing is how popular it is among young people. I have seen some disturbing survey data.

its not popular it was a joke amongst the youth a few years ago

there is a reason grifters use 1 specific year for their "data"

Any CaptainDisillusion fans?

https://youtu.be/YGgUrj10HdM

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Dun dun dunnnnn

Karovorak posted...

I'm more annoyed because it always feels like a loaded question.

"To you remember the disney intro with tinkerbell doing this dot on the i with magic?"

"Sure, why?"

"BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN".

Whats funny is that it did happen (on Disney tv shows) and there are YouTube videos to prove it

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Its not hard to explain that one. -stein is a common ending of last names while -stain isnt. So people just misread the name.

Plus, there were a few products that misspelled it as Berenstein.

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This is the one for me too because I have a memory of me asking my mom why it's spelled with an e

I kinda get the Berenstain bears thing. Even as a kid I heard it pronounced different ways by different teachers/adults so that probably all bled into my thinking of how it should be spelled.

the only one that ever really got me is the Sinbad genie movie. I specifically remember this movie, and know it's not real is weird to me.

Doesn't the parallel universes/worlds thing have it's own name?

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Doesn't the parallel universes/worlds thing have it's own name?

Its called the Mandela effect.

Even if you associate it with alternate realities...

What's the conspiracy with this theory?

Black-tipped Pikachu

it's boomers blaming their fading memory on an interdimensional conspiracy theory.

And it's always come across to me as dodgy that the main "mandela effect" thing that the conspiracy theory is named after is basically an apartheid supporter's wank fantasy (mandela dying in prison).

Hejiru posted...

Its called the Mandela effect.

Wait, when did the Mandela Effect go from "people are misremembering weird things" to "people are misremembering weird things because of parallel worlds?" Or did I misunderstand it from the beginning?

That CD video I posted talks about the origin of the term. It's always been about paranormal new wave bullshit. The term was coined by a woman who had a paranormal blog and wrote a bunch of books about ghost hunting.

I thought Mandela Effect had to do with simulation theory?

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Wait, when did the Mandela Effect go from "people are misremembering weird things" to "people are misremembering weird things because of parallel worlds?" Or did I misunderstand it from the beginning?

It didn't. The Internet is just full of doofuses desperate for life to be a movie, and as such they generally care about the "univers iz collidinz" stuff instead of, you know, real stuff.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

"I remember something slightly different than how they really are and some other people do the same. Therefore parallel worlds are bleeding into each other. Me be wrong about something? Don't make me laugh!"

Sometimes they even skip the "some other people misremember the same thing I do" part and say anything they misremember is parallel worlds.

Actually mental.

Nah. The parallel world theory is at least unfalsifiable. Flat Earth can be easily disproven with high school level science experiments.

I thought the Mandela Effect was a lousy idea and just people trying to justify their misremembering of things. Like, for Berenstain (sp?) Bears were so you used to saying and seeing stein at the end of a last name, if we werent paying attention we wouldnt notice because our minds are already clued in from the start of the word and the context that we wouldnt bother to recognize the actual spelling.

Then, in 2020, I found out a continuation of a show that I remembered didnt actually exist. I had remembered the channel, the host, even the general color scheme. None of that existed. I had remembered seeing a continuation of Unsolved Mysteries on the Lifetime network in either 2009 or 2010 and the host was Lance Reddick. I even remember the commercials on Lifetime that said that Lance Reddick from Fringe was the host. Lance Reddick has a memorable voice and look.
Now there was a continuation of Unsolved Mysteries at some point in the 00s, but none of it matches up with my memory.
The host was Dennis Ferino. I dont even know who that is.
The main color seemed to be red. In my memory, the backgrounds were black and blue.
It was on TNN/Spike/whatever it was called. I didnt watch that channel.
I normally just assume my memory slipped, but theres no way to confuse Lance Reddick with Dennis Ferino.

I dont think it has anything to do with parallel worlds or anything, but I wonder how and why my brain had this memory.

VFalcone posted...

Black-tipped Pikachu

Black tipped Pikachu's are a thing for years now.

But yeah, the common one isn't.

Karovorak posted...

Black tipped Pikachu's are a thing for years now.

But yeah, the common one isn't.

Oh, I agree with you, but people will tell you they never existed

"What's more likely, that I misremembered something from my childhood or that the universe changed to prove me wrong?"

With that said, the Fruit of the Loom logo never having a cornucopia messes me up.

Some people can't accept that their memories could be wrong and will go to any length to be right. Even if it means reality itself was wrong.

The human mind misremembers things, it's that simple.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Idk flat earth is pretty nutty

I think flat earth is worse because genuine flat earth believers are basically in a cult and call you indoctrinated for believing in basic scientific concepts

people who genuinely believe the Mandela effect is parallel universes merging can be strange, but flat earth is an entirely different level of fanaticism.

I swear it was Barenstein Bears.

In all seriousness I wonder why our reality of growing up with the Monopoly man having a monocle on the logo of the board game differs from what is known now, also in some peoples universe they played monopoly with green fake money instead of varied colored fake money

littlebro07 posted...

This is the one for me too because I have a memory of me asking my mom why it's spelled with an e

But that probably did happen. Your mom going off her memory and your pronunciation took a guess and was wrong. And the human mind connects conversations about an event with the actual event so the conversation memory fills in the blanks of the older memory.

Haejin posted...

In all seriousness I wonder why our reality of growing up with the Monopoly man having a monocle on the logo of the board game differs from what is known now, also in some peoples universe they played monopoly with green fake money instead of varied colored fake money

The latter I am unfamiliar with, but I always figured it was people mixing up memories of Mr. Monopoly and Mr. Peanut.

I think the other thing clouding the matter is the fact it was written in cursive on the cover so the a could be mistaken as an e

I wish someone would interview the family or the creators of the beren..stain? Bears. Creators are probably dead but there had to be an acknowledgement in the family that "everyone always says the name wrong!".

creativerealms posted...

Some people can't accept that their memories could be wrong and will go to any length to be right. Even if it means reality itself was wrong.

The human mind misremembers things, it's that simple.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7f915a4e.jpg

About a week ago I learned there was a live action Popeye movie with Robin Williams back in like the late 70s or early 80s. It felt wrong, or I felt wrong. Idk. I was stupefied. It was existential. I grew up in that era and had never heard of it. I definitely slipped into a parallel dimension.

Haejin posted...

In all seriousness I wonder why our reality of growing up with the Monopoly man having a monocle on the logo of the board game differs from what is known now, also in some peoples universe they played monopoly with green fake money instead of varied colored fake money

Jim Carrey called a guy with a monocle the monopoly guy in a movie that was #1 for it's opening weekend. For a lot of them it's probably that memory overwriting the older memories. You hear something, don't really remember the answer to well yourself, don't think about it, assume what you're hearing is correct, and now that's the new memory.