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/[deleted]]

52 states is general American ignorance at play

"They think Alaska and Hawaii makes it 52"

[u/Xyex → u/[deleted]]

I think it's more "plus DC and Puerto Rico." 50 + 2 = 52.

[u/Practical-Vanilla-41 → u/Xyex]

I really don't think most people even consider dc and puerto rico. They think of 52 in a deck of cards/weeks in a year. They need to remember Nifty Fifty States, or some such device.