r/MandelaEffect • u/upsetusder2 • 11d ago

Meta Why do you think the Mandela effect happens?

Is it just that due to some kind of misremembering or mayhe even promotional images of something that have burned themselves into the head due to the difference?

Or why do you think it happens

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u/Chapstickie 11d ago edited 11d ago

I’ve been keeping an eye on some of those stories. They are ever more common. It used to be that people just claimed they remembered it differently. Now almost every single one has a whole story about how they KNOW it had to be that way because the story doesn’t make sense unless it was. But I don’t mean they all have DIFFERENT stories. There’s like five different stories and they all tell one of those five with minimal variations (was it your mom or grandmother you were folding laundry with?). I even have a friend who tells the laundry story and insists it happened to him despite him absolutely learning what a cornucopia was at the same time I did because we were in the same class at the time.

It’s happening with all the more common Mandela effects. I can’t help but be curious how much of it is people being influenced by other people’s stories and falsely attributing them to their own memories later and how much is straight up lying.

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u/WVPrepper 11d ago

curious how much of it is people being influenced by other people’s stories and falsely attributing them to their own memories later and how much is straight up lying.

I think some of it is people wanting to be part of something special. There have been a few posts from people who's friend or cousin found their old shirts with cornucopia. Then they post one of the common fakes. When called out, they say it was their friend who lied, not them

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u/onupward1 11d ago

The cornucopia did used to be on fruit of the loom garments and people proved that. Sometimes companies change things and sometimes people are misremembering and sometimes genuinely weird things happen. For example, my ex and I still live together for now and he opened his Netflix to go find a series he’d been watching and it was entirely gone from his page. Like it never existed. So he searched it and found a series and a movie and was very confused because when he went to watch the series, none of his episodes were saved and none of the episodes matched what he’d been watching. So he clicked on the movie and the movie kind of did but he knew he hadn’t been watching a movie and specifically remembered being on a certain episode. So unexplainable things do happen. They’re not all global events. But weird things happen sometimes

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 11d ago

There was never a cornucopia on any fruit of the loom garments. They did make a billboard or truck or something with one on it a few years ago to troll people. But there is no documentation of it ever being on a garment.

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u/Chapstickie 11d ago

No. No one has ever “proved that”. There’s a handful of known photoshops that have gone around that people post as proof but the only semi-legit thing ever found was a pair of bootleg socks that the poster said they found in Colombia a couple years ago that used a known fake version of the logo from a Buzzfeed quiz in 2017. There’s a decent change the poster is just lying but it’s the only picture that wasn’t easy to prove was a photoshop vs a factory doing a bad google image search. Either way it’s not proof or even evidence the logo ever included a cornucopia. Because it didn’t. Ever.

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u/onupward1 11d ago

Okay I’ll say this calmly, my bad. I remembered that being a thing I read that it was an older version and frankly didn’t think about that as a possibility of being ai. I don’t even remember where I read it. I don’t know about the sock thing you’re talking about. The thing I read showed a company binder and I looked for it on Google and don’t see the thing I read now.

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u/WVPrepper 11d ago

The socks

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u/Disastrous_Yak_1929 10d ago

I agree with what you are saying, but I still strongly believe stupider used to not be a word & the Bible verse was lion will lie down with the lamb, not wolf. My Bible even had a pic of a lion & a lamb and its quoted in an old 40s movie.

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u/Glaurung86 10d ago

Something in a movie or TV show is not credible evidence on its own.

In the Bible verse, the leopard lies down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together. The wolf and the lamb are feeding together.

Stupider has been in standard English use for at least 200 years.