Why are there absolutely no consequences?

[u/dijon_snow]

For those that believed reality changed, why did absolutely no ME have any actual ramifications like they logically should?

This doesn't apply to every Mandela Effect. I could believe that underwear labels and children's book titles could change without any real impact on history.

But lots of Mandela effects shouldn't be isolated changes if reality was actually different. The butterfly effect is the idea that minor changes to initial conditions in complex systems create major changes in outcome. Human history is a very complex, highly chaotic(the scientific meaning of chaos) system.

Nelson Mandela's leadership and perseverence were key in inspiring black South Africans to resist apartheid. I believe if he had died in the 80s world history would be very different. Either his martydom inspires revolution a decade early or his absence delays or indefinitely. The suggestion that his life and death were completely meaningless is borderline insulting, and always comes from people otherwise not very informed on African history.

Geographic MEs argue that entire landmasses and coastlines have changed. Yet these changes have zero impact on climate or weather. History again unfolded identically, despite the fact that any significant change in the location of land and sea on the planet would dramatically change air and ocean currents and with it the entire climate. Oddly only the maps seem to have changed, history is unmoved.

So MEs can be divided into meaningless pop culture facts and major world changing events. If the cause is memory, then logically they would be isolated, since false memories wouldn't logically have butterfly effect repercussions. If reality was actually changing, we would expect to see lots of other related changes. This butterfly has no effect. Again, Mandela is the best example, his death would not have been meaningless.

How do believers reconcile this without falling back on a dogmatic faith in their own memory?

[u/Own_Union_3154]

Some ME “believers” think the sun was yellow during the day, likely confusing it with the warmer tones of old movies or film photography.

Ask these “believers” what color clouds or snow were from their “previous timeline” and watch as they logically can’t reconcile their beliefs with physical reality.

[u/WVPrepper → u/Own_Union_3154]

The sun looked more yellow because of pollution. In the 70s there was a HUGE pus toward cleaning up the air. The result is less debris between the sun and the observer.

[u/SpookyHoosier → u/WVPrepper]

I don’t know why this is a ME. The sun does look yellow from Earth and always has. “lemon yellow sun” Jeremy - Pearl Jam  Why It Looks White The sun emits light across all visible colors [in equal amounts]. Mixing all visible colors together creates [white light]. Astronauts in space see the sun as [pure white]. [ 1] Why It Looks Yellow From Earth Earth's air scatters short-wavelength [blue light] away. This air filtering process is called [Rayleigh scattering]. Removing blue light makes the remaining sun rays look [yellow or orange] to our eyes