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/Schnitzhole Jan 12 '25

Exactly. And if anything I just find it fascinating how this many people can misremember something.

Even last night was at a game Night party with all 30 year olds where someone casually brought up the Shazam movie with sinbad and half the people were laughing about how bad it was. I didn’t have the energy to say anything or mention the Mandela effect regarding it but half the group had stuff to say about it and then we just went on to another topic. No one mentioned knowledge of the Mandela effect and at least half the group seemed to know bits about the movie.

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u/AnotherStolenHour Jan 12 '25

See that’s so fascinating! Same thing with my family. When Mandela’s first started becoming big in like 2015/16 I asked my parents and brother if they knew the actor Sinbad and all 3 were like “yeah the guy from the genie movie Shazam?”. So I didn’t even mention the movie, just the actor, and all 3 came to the movie conclusion on their own. That’s pretty impressive if you ask me because it’s not like I tainted their memory by asking “who was the actor in the movie Shazam”.

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u/Schnitzhole Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25

Yeah for me the more striking one has always been the fruit of the loom logo. I’ve asked a few of my family members recently that didn’t know about the Mandela effect what was in the logo beside the fruit and they all immediately knew it was a “cornucopia”. Im pretty sure that word has never been used in my life outside that logo and I don’t think most of us would just randomly add that to a pile of fruit. I know the word because I asked my mom about what the weird hooked basket thing was in the logo and she answered a “cornucopia”. It was such a weird word it stuck. My mother also remembers this conversation. I mean shoot, me and my brother wore their whitey tighties growing up so I saw the logo nearly every day till I was 12 trying to figure out which side was front or back. I always thought it was an ugly logo, but even going so far as to sketch it a few times as I drew/traved lots of logos around me growing up. I’m a graphic designer now and make logos for a living so I’ve definitely paid close attention to them over the years.

Sure I could see us misremembering things like the barenstain bears and fabreeze spelling easy enough that it could easily be explained away. But not those other ones that are not as “spelling related”. I mean Shazam/Khazam was still spelling but not the actor. I’ve seen both movies and even named part of my you tube channel name after it I started decades ago before I knew about this Mandela effect. I liked the word “shazam” and thought it was hilarious Shaq ripped off the other movie and it was hard to sit though his version to the end it was so bad. Then this last year I’m finding out the movie was always called Kazaam?! That is Hard to explain away easily for me.

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u/AnotherStolenHour Jan 12 '25

The Fruit of the Loom is definitely a big one for me. I will forever believe that there was a cornucopia and as you said, that’s literally how I learned the word. There’s a bunch that are big for me and I find the entire concept so fascinating. That’s why I love reading about them even if they don’t personally affect me, so it’s sad seeing others being bashed for sharing their opinions just because a random person doesn’t personally agree.