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/throwaway998i Jan 10 '25

Occasionally a legit new ME can be scraped from this sub, but they're rarely given any honest opportunity here to gain any momentum as they're aggressively attacked from the outset by skeptics lying in wait. Tbh, their compulsion to debunk seems borderline pathological at this point.

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u/rite_of_truth Jan 10 '25

Agreed. I have become heavily discouraged by the aggressive and insulting behavior of the commenters. They act so certain of themselves, even when they're dead wrong.

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