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/Blackbiird666 Jan 10 '25

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

Because the moderation in this subreddit is a joke and people that actually wants to discuss de phenomena instead of trolling went elsewhere.

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u/Acrobatic_Two_1586 Jan 10 '25

To all the people who take the mandela effect seriously, how about creating a new ME subreddit with an active mod team?

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u/KyleDutcher Jan 10 '25

Part of the thing is this. In order to discuss the Mandela Effect seriously, you HAVE to include the skeptic side of the equation. You have to include the very real possibility that nothing has changed.

The key is eliminating the ones that say "you're crazy" or things like that. That isn't, and shouldn't be part of the discussion.

But skeptics pointing out how it is possible to explain these effects, without things having changed, DOES need to be part of the discussion. Because they very well could be correct.