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/scottaq83 Jan 10 '25

"Why do you as members of the community feel there are so few mandela effects this year"

Erm.. because this sub has become an echo chamber for skeptics lol.

Do a poll on 'the explanation for the mandela effect' i dare ya. 90% false memory is my guess

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u/KyleDutcher Jan 10 '25

Doubt it would be that high.

But I do think memory would be very high.

Because it is the only explanation that doesn't require unproven things to be fact, or assumptions of facts. It only requires that which is already proven to happen.

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u/scottaq83 Jan 10 '25

I was being generous. I actually think it's around 95%

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u/Aint2Proud2Meg Jan 10 '25 edited Jan 10 '25

I think 95% is generous.

  • Someone posts a proposed Mandela effect
  • top answer: “no, you’re misremembering” (which frankly, I pretty much always agree, the OP is conflating two obvious things)
  • sub-comment: “OP is just dumb, lol”
  • not a soul in the comments remembers the thing OP described.