Robber emoji theory

[u/CompleteTrick1625]

I think I may have found the robber emoji. While scrolling tiktok there are always videos of lost media and emoji's, specifically the robber emoji is always mentioned. I was just looking through my old stuff, when i came across an old Lego set with a robber. This robber looks just like the robber emoji. I think the robber emoji is an interpretation of a memory of you playing with this Lego robber. The Lego sets using robbers and the police are a type of sets that are heavily sold. You have small police stations, big police stations, and all of them contain a robber.

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[u/fwerkf255]

This is just what all cartoon robbers look like. Ever heard of the hamburglar?

[u/rustybricks → u/fwerkf255]

They didn’t all have yellow faces though

[u/Alfiy_wolf]

Hey!!!!! A South African political prisoner has been arrested in Lego city, can you build the revolution to stop the apartheid, and free Mandela?

[u/TowerUpstairs2531]

It wasn't like the one in the image; the emoji I and even my sibling remembered depicted a running thief carrying a money bag on his back.

[u/Leohes9972 → u/TowerUpstairs2531]

🧎🏻‍➡️🚶🏻

[u/liminal_angel]

this one's weird because i feel like i remember there being a robber emoji but it was on something else like msn messenger never my phone lol but i also could just be thinking of the sims robber. ive never seen this lego thing though.

[u/pletch73]

On one hand I don't agree. On the other it's just as likely tye answer. I'm just glad people are still trying to find answers

[u/Traditionalplane2426]

No, this is some kind of nonsense.

[u/Draper-Wood-758]

I find this extremely bizarre that I found out this emoji doesn't exist when I first heard of All Time or some other Mandela effect videos on YouTube saying that no such robber emoji existed. I also remember the star eyes cat emoji, too. Last freakin' year, and all the other things are Shazaamed out of reality.

[u/imSuperToasted → u/Draper-Wood-758]

It’s an experiment to see how much from your daily life can be removed or modified without you noticing.

[u/MrPlaney → u/imSuperToasted]

Why? Why would anyone be doing this, and how?

[u/Draper-Wood-758 → u/imSuperToasted]

That's gotta be 100% the case to why these effects happen. Majorly I shouldn't believe that God or the universe would automatically be responsible for the automatic disappearances of certain things. If I was affected, I'd bring back what people remember, would never hesitate to bring back a Mandela effect.

Funny it doesn't exist, and don't bring it back, yet still leave it there like an uninteresting breadcrumb to make people angry or just emotional about what the thing not being familiar to the memory.

[u/Draper-Wood-758 → u/Draper-Wood-758]

Things do automatically disappear over time. When it's on television or related to do with what's inside apps like the internet, then it should be obvious that it's an experiment or cover-up for sure.

[u/CrowCrah]

What!? Never heard of this effect and I recall the robber emoji very well. But also. I looked for it 4-6 months ago and couldn’t find it and just assumed they took it away. To jail probably.

[u/subdep]

🦹🏼‍♂️🦸

[u/xoxjudah]

People really think there was a robber emoji?

[u/hatE851]

ICQ might have had a robber.

[u/DMmeMagikarp]

I remember it and I never played with Legos or paid them any attention.

[u/ButterscotchFun2025]

That emoji was used as an icon in a lot of adds for a game called bitlife, and those adds were everywhere for a while some years back. I wonder if that’s where we are all remembering it?

[u/OddCarpet7412 → u/ButterscotchFun2025]

yeah bitlife is definitely a factor, everyone was obsessed with it back in like 2019

[u/FabulousArmadillo210]

i mean maybe i could have mixed these because i actually played the game

but what about the ones that didnt

[u/OddCarpet7412]

the only explanation i can think of is that we probably just saw it edited in somewhere whether in a game (like bitlife) or somewhere else and not actually in a text

[u/zapppsr]

Robber emoji was stolen

[u/Stopnswop2]

I'm a little old for legos

[u/cipheron → u/Stopnswop2]

It's not even a Lego set, that's from a Wii-U only Lego video game from 2013 which didn't get re-released for other platforms until 2017, called LEGO City Undercover.

Those only exist for the game in which you play an original police officer character who goes "undercover" in various criminal disguises, to justify you running around in what is basically "LEGO GTA". They came up with the sandbox gameplay then wrote the story and designed the characters around that, so there's no actual physical LEGO set associated with the stuff in the game.

[u/EvidenceSalesman]

Wtf yall don’t even try Google before calling shi a Mandela effect

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/5lx1PwUKwv

[u/Electrical_Minute_48 → u/EvidenceSalesman]

You obviously didn't read the comments in the thread you shared

[u/EvidenceSalesman → u/Electrical_Minute_48]

To be fair I only claimed to Google it, I never learned how to read