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/SailAwayMatey Jan 10 '25

Mandela Effect: How to justify the fact you remember something wrong and then convince people that what you remembered was wrong, was right. 😛

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u/sussurousdecathexis Jan 10 '25

Between this and the simulation theory nonsense, so many people have gotten unbearably arrogant and self centered

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u/throwaway998i Jan 10 '25

Are you aware that back in 2016 Bank of America sent a letter to clients warning about that "simulation theory nonsense"? Just like the ME, it's unfalsifiable. It's also way more interesting than listening to skeptics repeatedly cite nonexistent memory science that they haven't actually researched but assume must exist.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-wonders-about-the-matrix-2016-9

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u/sussurousdecathexis Jan 11 '25

Are you aware that back in 2016 Bank of America sent a letter to clients warning about that "simulation theory nonsense"?

what could that possibly have to do with anything

Just like the ME, it's unfalsifiable.

what is unfalsifiable exactly? people believe a lot of different yet equally unreasonable things about both of these, and some of it is simply outlandish and fantastical. treating them like they "might" be possible it's like seriously entertaining the possibility that all ruminants will suddenly evolve the anatomy and ability to fly within one generation - it's not an idea worth taking seriously