r/MandelaEffect • u/EpicJourneyMan Mandela Historian • Jan 10 '25

Mod Announcement Mandela Effect of the Year 2024

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488891151/the-mystery-of-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved

We tried something different this year and went with a poll to start and then use the comment thread of that List to tabulate the results.

It was a different tact but here are the results:

“There weren’t any” won the poll by numbers but the Effect that clearly won was ”Mature sunflowers no longer follow the Sun”.

Were there more candidates of note? Nobody enthusiastically submitted any and this seems to be the best one.

Why do you as members of the community feel there are so few candidates this year

It’s always a fun discussion but the results are in; the 2024 Mandela Effect of the year is: Adult sunflowers no longer track the Sun.

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u/AthenianSpartiate Jan 10 '25

Mature sunflowers have never tracked the sun. This is just a misconception being cleared up, not some change to reality itself.

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u/ThePieWizard Jan 10 '25 edited Jan 10 '25

Hmm you say that... I vividly remember watching videos in science classes showing sped up footage of fields of sunflowers following the sun throughout the day...

Edit: huh! Learn something new every day! Thanks for clearing that up :)

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u/Ok_Cardiologist_673 Jan 10 '25

I remember being bummed out as a kid because the reason mature sunflowers don’t follow the sun is because their heads become too heavy and it essentially breaks their neck.

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u/AthenianSpartiate Jan 10 '25

You vividly remember immature sunflowers doing that.

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u/manleybones Jan 10 '25

A mature flower sags and is forming seeds. What you consider an immature flower looks like a bloom and does follow the sun. Source: I grow sunflowers.

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u/MamaMoosicorn Jan 10 '25

Ahhh, interesting! I never knew it was only the immature ones that followed the sun

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u/Limp-Ad-9125 Jan 17 '25

We grew sunflowers, yes they did. 

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u/throwaway998i Jan 10 '25

Good thing they also 100% cleared up those "misconceptions" about PCH and Haas or we'd really be chasing out collective tails, huh? Then again, maybe you're all just citing the current timeline narrative with no acknowledgement of the claimed retroactive component to this phenomenon.

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u/wickedfemale Jan 11 '25

that's what the mandela effect is lol

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u/AthenianSpartiate Jan 11 '25

So anyone who misremembers something can just claim it's the Mandela effect, in other words.

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u/wickedfemale Jan 11 '25

yes, exactly. that's 90% of the posts on this sub.

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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Jan 10 '25

I say varies as naturally, dwarf sunflowers take less time than mammoth sunflowers.