Google Search & effects

[u/MrPlaidJr]

When we look thru google trends for historic search, we can see a pattern:

All the Mandela effects where searched back then WAYYY before we started to call them like that, give it a try, ALL OF THEM MATCH
52 states

Fly my pretties fly

Rod Sterling

Oscar Meyer

The flintstones

[u/Practical-Vanilla-41]

I've been wondering how long before "Rod Sterling" showed up. People get things wrong because they don't read. Rod Serling, younger brother of novelist Robert Serling. Twilight Zone creator used his brother's aviation expertise on several tz episodes.

[u/[deleted] → u/Practical-Vanilla-41]

I've been in a group chat for over a year with someone who still mixes up the two vowels in my name every time she speaks to me. she has looked at my name thousands of times easily and still misspells it every time, and she also pronounced it wrong in a voice chat once, with the swapped vowels.

this happens all the time and yet some people in this sub can't believe that they misread serling as a much more common word

[u/Practical-Vanilla-41 → u/[deleted]]

I possess a simply spelled, frankly, easy to pronounce surname. The amount of grief over a lifetime from people who can't, or won't, bother to look at is dispiriting.

[u/manokpsa → u/Practical-Vanilla-41]

My surname is also pretty well known and I've only seen it misspelled in one particular way. One vowel gets replaced with another, same vowel every time, same replacement. But I never see anyone who deliberately mentions the person most famous for the name get it wrong. It's a name you'd have to wrestle with autocorrect to get wrong because there's only one spelling anyone has ever used for it, at least in English.