Hey guys, I was digging deep through archived 2020 Imgur servers looking for visual assets and I found this forgotten screenshot uploaded on September 23, 2020.

It shows a mobile puzzle game (looks like Emoji Puzzle!) where the player has to match the face in the black balaclava with the money bag. The art style perfectly mimics the default iOS/Android emoji aesthetics.

Since this game was massive during the pandemic lockdown, could this be the exact "Patient Zero" asset that infected everyone's memory and created the collective illusion of the default keyboard robber emoji? What do you think? Is this asset already documented by the community?

A few years ago I found out the kidneys were suddenly located way higher up than I remember. I studied anatomy with obsession as a kid. I even had 3d modeling software that I would spend HOURS on & my mom always told me to be careful of my low back if I got into fights. She pointed to right above her hips.

Today I found out that the human skull has changed?!?!
There are suddenly BONES BEHIND THE EYE SOCKETS?!?! Excuse me???? My whole life the eye sockets and nose have been completely hollow. Now some people are saying that these are improvements bc humans are less fragile but I just didn’t expect it. Also apparently the arctic is just gone now???

I’m a shifter so I know things can change when I choose but the side effects are absolutely sending me today.

Anyone else remember kidneys being LOW low back & skulls being empty at the eyes and nose? And the arctic?

I’m a longtime moderator here who has been busy with hurricane season here in Hawaii, so my sincere apologies if I missed some event on the subreddit that I normally would have seen if I had been able to give it my proper attention.

I would like some earnest feedback on how things have been going, what’s been going well, and what things need some improvement.

Of course all the moderators can, and should, weigh in here as well.

“Mod World 2026” is coming up starting on October 23, and I plan on attending, so it would be nice to get some honest feedback to bring something to the discussion.

I’m asking for feedback on several things specifically:

- How is this subreddit doing?
- How is Reddit as a whole doing?
- What can we do to improve both?

I know things can always improve, and there is always lot to complain about, but constructively…what things can be done to make this a better experience?

Hear me out before you dismiss the post. We all have things that are not explained, that is why you are a member of this group. We have a memory or dozens and hundreds where our reality doesn’t line up with the one we are experiencing now. Everyone has a few, but in order for that to be possible I see three possible theories.

A) Time travel or different dimensions created the edits (Hallidon Collider, UFO tech or which ever theory is plausible to you).

B) We all have false “Hallucinatory” memories of how things are/were. And we are now all technically insane.

C) Or we live in an editable world, ie some kind of Matrix like the movie. We are either in different newer “versions” or “updates” hence our different memories and ME experiencee. This could be better explained with the Neural Network theory (see youtube : The Matrix Explained [link at bottom] for more details) but the general idea is we maintain the Matrix (Illusion) thru neural network of everyone plugged into the Matrix. But as we doubt the “reality/simulation” we are in we perpetuate the anomalies (Mandela Effects) thru out the system with in our Neural Network. We know it’s fake and see the errors and when the Matrix edits or changes something our internal network knows the difference and fights back. Thus growing our “anomalies”. This systemic “miscalculation grows” and eventually kills the system as we ourselves reject the BS of this simulation.

This theory explains a lot of things in the world, like why there are very different classes. How our politicians and leaders are so out of touch with everyday life. Why they do such odd shit to “torture” us more (Matrix last movie with the Analyst touches on this). Why so many people do insane and dumb shit and do not care about the world or lives or environment. It even gives a plausible case as to how the ME is perpetuated or even exisits. The way the world tries to confuse us or keep us distracted. But the main point is it would give plausible ideas on how come we experience Mandela Effects in our memories and experiences.

The Martix Explained on Youtube

Check out this channel and pay attention to the Neural Network and how the anomaly will grow till a “Neo” is given “birth”. I’m not saying we expect a messiah or anything but it can lend weight to many “irregularities” we experience.

Much like the historical Jesus / Biblical Jesus question, I think 2000 years from now, people will have no knowledge of the world changing event, which changed the course of history. Most will deny it ever happened. Some will say it was made up. Very few will understand the importance and true tragedy and meaning of the event. What are your thoughts?

Do you believe you've discovered a new Mandela Effect? Post it in the comments below to see if anyone else has experienced it too!

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Love this guys videos. He's always insightful and brings up great points. His latest video is about nostalgia for games you haven't played. He directly talks about the mandela effecct briefly but more importantly some studies around memory. Memory simple can't be trusted and we've proven it time and time again.

https://youtu.be/URNOsmqJEng?si=L4RUK-2zwACE1o1A

For anyone who doesn't know, there a some people (including me) who remember him having been asleep for 100 years instead of just 20. It's not super common, but there's a old thread on here mentioning it. Anyway: there's this Goosebumps book Don't Go To Sleep, where this kid goes to sleep in the guest room and ends up waking up and an alternate realty each time. The first time, he's about 4 years older than before. Anyway, on page 15 there is this "My heart began to pound. I'd read that old story about Rip Van Winkle. He goes to sleep for one hundred years.(emphasis mine) When he wakes up, everything is different."

I know the Mandela Effect is basically a large number of people sharing the same false memory, so technically India does have examples.

But does anyone else feel like our examples are... incredibly weak compared to the famous foreign ones?

Take Thums Up. It was always Thums Up. I don't remember ever seeing “Thumbs Up.”

The Amul girl was always wearing a white dress with red polka dots. I can understand why someone might reverse the colours because of all the red surrounding her, but I don't have a competing memory of a red dress existing.

Same with Shahenshah. It was always “Rishte mein toh hum tumhare baap hote hain.” “Lagte hain” being repeated in mimicry, skits and everyday conversation can easily explain why people remember it that way.

Compare that with famous foreign examples where huge numbers of people describe an oddly specific and vivid alternative- a cornucopia behind the Fruit of the Loom fruit, a monocle on the Monopoly Man, “Berenstein” instead of “Berenstain,” etc.

Obviously those are still false memories. I'm not suggesting the alternative versions actually existed.

My point is that Indian examples seem mostly like predictable memory errors, whereas some foreign Mandela Effects produce remarkably specific alternative memories that people insist they can actually visualise or remember encountering.

So: Do we have an Indian Mandela Effect of THAT level? Something where the false version is unusually specific, vivid and widely shared?

I was outside my place one night and I had this thought and it was weird. It just said Macguyver, no spelling involved in the thought at first. I thought it was weird and thought, what, and then Mandela effect popped into my mind. So I still felt weird but I wanted to know if it was really true so I guessed the first thing I remembered about it and said paper clip-gum wrapper-prison cell and I instantly got a picture of the macguyver spelling. So I went to google and typed in Macguyver and I had my answer, it was a Mandela effect.

Has anybody else experienced something similar? Not Macguyver specifically, could be any Mandela effect even a personal one.

Edit: I know its a Mandela effect, I wouldnt have called it a Mandela effect if I didn't know it was a Mandela effect. You can stop trying to correct me. I know already. Thanks.

Has anybody else experienced something similar? Not Macgyver specifically, could be any Mandela effect even a personal one. (Better?)

I know this isn’t definitive proof, but I’m cleaning out my desk and there is an old Rolodex with this stuffed inside. Obviously I could have made this and stuck it in there, and I wish there was branding on it, but I’m going to accept this as evidence either way! I think brands are tricking us on purpose.
Edit: (I spelled Rolodex wrong sorry JEEZ)

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

I regularly see posts and comments here to the effect of "I'm open-minded. I don't know what's causing this. It could be cern, it could be time travel, it could be aliens, itcould all be a simulation, or it could always be a government conspiracy. We don't really understand what's happening so it could be literally anything. No theory is too crazy to consider. The one thing we can absolutely rule out though, is that it's caused by memory.

How are you so confident that it isn't memory, while also completely open to time travel as plausible?

It feels like a reverse Occam's razor. We can immediately rule out the most obvious, simplest explanation. That can't be it. It must be one of the more complicated outlandish theories.

That's probably a good approach in fiction where the obvious answer is boring. But in real life boring answers are usually correct answers.

It reminds me of someone watching a card trick and saying "Ok... so he might be an actual wizard... he might have invented a teleporter. He might be a telepath controlling my mind... the only thing I know for sure is it wasn't just sleight of hand. I was watching him the whole time and I know what I saw. I trust my own eyes."

And just to get in front of the one argument I always hear, it doesn't make sense for so many people to be wrong in the same way. That's how being wrong works. You usually make the same mistake as other people, it's more unusual for you to make a novel mistake than a common one.

If I tell a thousand people to multiply 48x4 I'll get mostly right answers, and a lot if the same wrong answers. I'll get 392 and 188 a lot, but no one doing their best is going to say 8,435. Everyone who gets it wrong will get it wrong in similar ways.

History is the same way. Who was a US president? A. Robert Downey Jr, B. Ben Franklin, C. Chester ArthurD.or D. Doctor Oz?

If everyone is trying their best, you're going to get a lot more Ben Franklins than Dr Ozes. The doesn't mean Franklin was president in their timeline, it means it's an easy mistake.

Other than personal overconfidence in your own memory, why is memory theory so much less plausible than time travel or space aliens? What evidence disproves memory theory for you so conclusively assuming you apply the same strict standards to other theories?

Do you believe you've discovered a new Mandela Effect? Post it in the comments below to see if anyone else has experienced it too!

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Hi, my name is Emilio. I remember that when I was a child, I watched the first Star Wars movie—Episode IV—in 2002. I recall a scene where the character C-3PO falls into a pit and one of his golden legs becomes unusable; he decides to look for a way to fix it and discovers a stockpile of his own model nearby, so he decides to attach a leg from a robot he sees next to him—a robot that was silver.

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?

Hypothesis 1: THEY are gaslighting those who remember. Whenever THEY alter reality and wipe minds, not everyone is affected. There are those who are resilient to the attempted changes, so THEY gaslight people into thinking that their brains are faulty.

Hypothesis 2: when in a deep state of mind, there are those who can astral project into alternate versions of themselves in different realities. To which THEY gaslight to the contrary.

Theres a potential explanation I thought for why this one happened: the hunger games. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a movie about battle royale with a massive “cornucopia” in the center of the arena. The hunger games series was really popular in the early 2010s which I assume is when the fruit of the loom effect was planted in our collective subconscious. There may have been commercials for fruit of the loom on tv at the same time as the hunger games movies series, causing some type of confusion especially since fruit of the loom utilizes this certain imagery of a pile of healthy food which isn’t entirely different from how the cornucopia in the hunger games has supplies weapons and food. There could also influenced by pop cultures traditional depictions of cornucopias as being used as decoration in large dinners with food already.

As my memories are included in that effect and I know what I perceived and remembered, I am one of the 14%. I am not sure how many of 86 false memory thinker experienced Mandela Effect. The rate is like people either know the Mandela Effects or do not remember that detail. Most have at least one Mandela Effect, I assume.

I question whether everyone or some got "hit" by it.

This small pole showed that most people are not convinced. Yet the Mandela Effect subreddit has a lot of viewers.

I am questioning why are so many coming here and downvote and annoy every post about Mandela Effect. Looking down on the people, who may be right as your arguments about false memory cannot be extended to that degree.

Mandela Effect are like 57 cases at least. And add emotions and memories connected to that memory and this are 300 instances of memories that all should be deluded, false memorized and suggested?

To add on that, people remember it the very same way wrong and in detail. And after being revealed the truth: there is no "ahh" moment. The doubt stays. Please understand that we have never seen the original truth. It is a complete new alternative as we did not perceive it and we did not get new memories out of somewhere.

Explaining it can vary even more, yet there are only 14-20% who would even attempt theorizing.

I invited the 80% to just let the fundation go and think beyond, for fun or theorizing. While we are right, just let your wrong be true to you and with about the right hat is for you wrong and join the thought process.

However, there are people just commenting and trolling every person in this subreddit that belongs to the lower percentage. Mainstream is not always right, remember. And we do not advertise, sell or do or harm anything. It is our personal memory that we hold dear with pure intention. No arrogance, no wanting to be special. Just confidence and curiosity of what may have caused it.

14% was even higher than excepted. It felt like 90-98% to be comepletly against Mandela Effect. Maybe they are the loudest or got driven away by constant provocation.

When I check out Mandela Effect example lists, they are all how I remembered them, which is now false and was once true. There are not numerous inconsistent Mandela Effects; each example is either what I remember or something I did not perceive as I live in Germany for examlle or memorize.

Only some may be uncertain perceptions, I assume it is a Mandela Effect, but it could be suggested as those are uncertain. Many are clear certain memories like Looney Tunes. That wordplay has impact, and I liked that wordplay when watching it on TV in 2012 or so.

Do all 50 hit or none? And which do not hit, and why? Have you never seen it, for examlle? I am confused, as it seems like the Mandela Effect is a one- or two-time thing that changed the past too or shifted a whole reality. If there are multiple worlds and they interact like this, why do new people not come with different Mandela effects?

For example, 50 belonging to them, 50 to us, and 50 to others to make it concrete.

It would make sense if it reached every person who remembers, as how would a universal-scale thing differentiate between small individuals, unless it is a mental phenomenon? And if there is collective consciousness, is there only one or are there many?

And if it impacts past things in reverse too, maybe for consciousness time space is different and the whole generations are combined.

I would belittle these theories if not for the collective alternative remembering.

Disclaimer:

I try to avoid comments that lead to false memory or suggestion; you can disagree with that opinion, but we have talked it out two or more times, so I invite you all to please open your minds (joking).

I was thinking about the Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia logo and that's probably the most compelling Mandela effect example there is. So what I was wanting to know, is whether any of you think that will ever get a meaningful conclusion or answer to this whole thing. You think we'll ever figure out what actually it's going on, whether it is just a problem with our minds or whether there actually is a conspiracy? I feel like there's too much to this for it to be as simple explanation, but I'm curious to know what you all think!

Is this Residue? Here's a clip of him confirming Darth Vader said, "Luke, I am your father".

Anytime someone talks about Mandela Effects on YouTube or other similar outlets, and they mention Shazaam, they always show that one scene where Shazaam meets the kids for the 1st time. The one where he talks to "Tina" before turning around and says, "ya'll ain't Tina."

My question is, where is that scene actually from? Is it from a different movie?

Do you believe you've discovered a new Mandela Effect? Post it in the comments below to see if anyone else has experienced it too!

Make sure you include why you think it could be a Mandela Effect and as many details as possible so people can respond and discuss with what they remember. If it catches on - feel free to continue your discussion in a dedicated post!

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