#the mandela effect

[leseigneurdufeu]

the mandela effect: when a large demographics has the same erroneous memory.

the goncharov effect: when a large demographics knows very well what the real memory is but pretends completely unprompted to remember the same erroneous memory.

#goncharov #the mandela effect

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Mr.Gaiman! :) I had a question about the Bentleys license plate in s2, in s1 it said “sid-rat” which is tardis backwards, but in s2 it says “niat-ruc” which is curtain spelled backwards. I was just wondering if there was a particular reason for this choice or if it’s something we’ll understand after s3?

I'm sorry. You have undergone a small universe shift. You may find some other discrepancies as you go.

#the mandela effect #or something more sinister?

[n0b0dii2]

gabriel plush.

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[eemoo1o]

If Ron ever worked with Cognito then I think the perfect job for him would probably be a job in the Mandela effect (if that’s a division at all).

#it’d basically be the opposite of what he hates: he’d get to create memories that don’t exist as opposed to erasing ones that do! #inside job #ron staedtler #ron staedtler x reagan ridley #cognito inc #the mandela effect

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Without going back and checking

#the mandela effect #the urge to include a vanilla extract option was so strong #nerdy prudes must die #starkid #max jagerman #max jägerman #npmd #bully the bully #bury the bully

[nyankewlll]

My Inside out Mandela effect

Im bad at explaining things, so this might be weirdly formatted 😭

Some things to know first is that when i was a kid, i’d watch inside out nearly everyday, i knew every dialogue and i knew every scene by heart, i could probably watch it in my head if i wanted to

over the years my interest in inside out died, and i went a few years without watching it. In 2022 i decided to rewatch it again and during the opening where joy and sadness were introduced, i was waiting for the part where they fought over the button, it zoomed back out onto riley, changing from giggling to crying repeatedly. Then the scene switched to rileys POV, where her parents looked at eachother confused at the sight of this. Obviously this scene never came and i was confused because i remember this scene so clearly

Inside out is my special interest now so i KNOW for sure this wasnt a delete scene that was available to watch, or a scene from a parody video because ive seen every one

heres a poor recreation of it

i remember being so confused when i waited for a scene that never ended up coming, maybe im misremembering or im thinking of a parody video i watched years ago thats deleted now.

#mandela effect #inside out #pixar #disney #mandela effects #the mandela effect #joy inside out #disney pixar #inside out fandom #inside out sadness #inside out 2 #pixar inside out #special interest #srs post

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

me when i get sleep paralysis

#the mandela effect #gio talks

[belphegorswh0re]

This game reminds me of the Mandela effect

The game That's not my neighbor has always reminded me of the Mandela effect. Especially when it comes to completing the achievement steel memory. Cause you have to remember the appearances of the people without looking at any folders and whatnot. For example, the twins, Selenne and Elenois. There's a only about two differences between the two. The color of eyeshadow and the mole. Elenois has a mole on her left cheek, and Selenne has one on her right cheek. And with the eyeshadow, Elenois has a light pink eyeshadow, and Selenne has a (kind of?) purple eyeshadow. This can make things kind of tricky with their doppelgangers if it isn't obvious to tell if they're actually them. And since the two are twins it's kind of hard to tell them apart unless you know who they are based off of their eyeshadow or the mole. Just wanted to get that off my mind! Thanks for reading this!

#that's not my neighbor #the mandela effect

[lord-radish]

I've had some thoughts about the Mandela Effect for a while now.

Like I get that it's just a fun internet phenomenon that shines a light on a sort of "benign" form of mass hysteria, where an error enters the public lexicon and a large swath of people believe the error to the point where the eventual truth is disconcerting and jarring. Theoretically, that's cool. Awesome observation, fun little trend to point out those little idiosyncrasies. It's also an interesting comment on ignorance, because a handful of people were just straight-up misinformed about the life and death of Nelson Mandela and they blew that up into this big thing.

However, regardless of anyone's best intentions, the Mandela Effect is also a way to excuse ignorance and turn both it and misinformation into an argument of belief. I strongly believe that the Mandela Effect is an anti-intellectual standpoint - it's possible to engage with the concept as just a thought experiment, but there is a point where it begins to have more widespread ramifications.

There are people who take the Mandela Effect, a thought experiment about colliding timelines and alternate realities, literally - to the point where they do believe in a series of colliding timelines as a legitimate explanation for things they believe that don't line up with reality. When offered two choices - an outlandish thought experiment involving an infinite number of divergent timelines infinitely merging and leaving people with foreign memories of a reality that now ceases to exist, and the simple concept that they might have innocently been wrong about something - people choose to give the thought experiment equal weight to the thought that they might have been misinformed.

This is useful for people who want to disseminate false information and argue in bad faith. It gives people the choice between a comfortable lie and an uncomfortable truth. It lets people talk their way out of being wrong - I wasn't ignorant to the fact that Nelson Mandela was the president of South Africa for decades, I'm simply one of a chosen handful of people who hail from a timeline where he died in prison.

I had a friend who became fascinated by flat earthers and began to argue their viewpoint in earnest. According to my friend, it's not that the earth is really flat, you see; it's just that exploring the possibility is a worthwhile endeavour for scientists to do so they can conclusively rule it out, and it could help alleviate the anti-science bias that many flat earthers share due to being pushed out of academic spaces and the associated shame of being belittled by their supposed peers.

That was the start of his fascination with UFOs, pseudoscience, and eventually far-right figureheads like Ben Shapiro. Is there a connection? I don't know - dude probably trended more towards conservativism in the first place. But when he began entertaining ignorance on the same level as fact, he just sort of... kept going.

The next step after flat earth conspiracies was the Mandela Effect.

I'm bringing this up because one day, we were talking and the Mandela Effect came up. And he said that actually, it isn't the Mandela Effect - it never was. It's the Mandala Effect.

It fits the concept pretty well - according to Wikipedia, "A mandala generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from outside to the inner core, through layers". Layers of reality, folding in on themselves in an infinite journey. It's not the Mandela Effect any more, where a group of people were independently ignorant of a major facet of world news in an airport lounge. It's the Mandala Effect - a map of the deities and a spiritual journey hailing from Eastern mythology.

And like the Mandela Effect is wont to do, I had this awful sense of dissonance, like my brainmeat was being pulled two ways at once. But rather than it being because of a long-standing misconception that had just been corrected, ala the Berenstain Bears, it was because it was never the Mandala Effect. It was a popular internet trend that stemmed from people being misinformed about Nelson Mandela. This was a new origin for the thought experiment, a blatant lie that's congruent with the internal logic of the thing it's trying to supplant, being presented as the truth.

The attempt to fold the Mandela Effect in on itself and change the nature of its origin, presentation and message was a blatant attempt to rewrite its own history. It was exploiting this new little shortcut to tell people a blatantly false statement, but because of how close Mandela and Mandala are as words and because the Mandela Effect is all about how those similarities and resulting misconceptions are due to shifts in reality, someone had managed to convince people like my friend that the Mandala Effect was just as valid of a choice as the Mandela Effect.

This bullshit new way to address the thought experiment was - to my friend - just as valid as its actual origin in that fucking airport lounge. And my friend insisted on calling it the Mandala Effect to continue the thought experiment, insisting that it was the true name of the phenomenon from that point on, and he kept taking it further and further even after everyone started getting sick of it. Like with the flat earth stuff, a degree of it was him being a contrarian. But he kept insisting on it.

That's always going to stick with me. People get defensive about the Mandela Effect, how it's just having fun - and if you can keep a healthy sense of boundaries and remain grounded in reality, treating it as the hypothetical thought experiment that it is, that's 100% fine. But I'm adamant that the Mandela Effect, when taken further than that, is an anti-intellectual viewpoint that makes it easier to disseminate false information.

Sometimes you're just wrong about shit, even about stuff you're 120% sure that you know front to back. It's okay to be wrong. Literally everyone is wrong like that at one point or another in their lives. It's humiliating, but a part of being alive is realising that you're wrong, growing from it and correcting yourself. It's okay to be wrong sometimes.

And the Mandela Effect is a fine hypothetical to play around with. I'm not saying it's inherently evil and an irredeemable tool of political radicalisation. I think it can be a tool of political radicalisation, equally platforming a fantastical mistruth against actual, real-world reality and facts - but yeah, people can engage with the concept behind the Mandela Effect as they see fit.

I'm concerned about the potential misuse of the Mandela Effect to spread misinformation and to give people an excuse to be disingenuous and intellectually lazy. I've been thinking about the effect and my own distaste for people platforming ignorance, and this is the conclusion I've come to. That's my gripe.

#the mandela effect #mandela effect #mandala effect #the mandala effect #long post

[emma-is-swaggy-and-epic]

Y'know something i find kinda interesting is that the danganronpa fandom kind of has a mandela effect thing going on where pretty much EVERYONE in the fandom spells kokichi's last name as "ouma" when in reality, his last name NEVER had a U in it!

If i'm being honest here, i kinda like the fan spelling more lol

#scheduled #danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #danganronpa killing harmony #kokichi ouma #kokichi oma #drv3 kokichi #danganronpa kokichi #mandela effect #the mandela effect #danganronpa fandom #fandom #fandom misconceptions #useless facts #interesting

[discount-walter-white]

I Find The Reality Of Timelines To Be Kindness

Do you know what "Quantum Immortality" is?

Quantum Immortality is when you suffer a death in one timeline, and you continue from a previous point in another, a point before the events that resulted in your death. Risky surgery with low chance of success? Seemingly innocuous visit to the doctor that resulted in an unforseen complication? A bad feeling before going through the intersection? All moments we die every single day, and luckily we had near hits, and the oncoming catastrophe misses us by hairs.

You didn't survive, or you did, but not that you knew you didn't.

How many timelines have you skipped through before settling here? How many times have you come closer to potentially fatal harm, only to have your heart skip a beat and you luckily not be so much as scratched? How many times has your heart raced as a vision in your mind of a gruesome death that never occurred as you just simply walked across a parking lot during peak hours?

How many times have you escaped death, only to be more cautious now, and to feel humbled by something you didn't consider dangerous before?

How many things do you remember differently? How did you spell the last name of those bears, before 2012? How did you spell chic-fil-a (what I remember as the oldest)? Did the Fruit Of The Loom have the cornucopia, or didn't it?

How many hiccups in continuity do you know of, and how many do you not know about?

How many times have you almost died?

Do you have memories of things that never happened? What did others, who you remember being their, say when you brought it up and they don't remember?

Did you always have the tube TV, or did you never install the fire extinguisher in that closet?

Do you remember who you loved?

Do you remember the family you created?

Do you remember the world ending?

Do you remember the sacrifices made to reset it all back to how it was?

Do you have memories from places you've never been, with people you've never met?

How many times have you died, and not realized it?

#Timelines #I am from an alternate timeline #one that is very old #pay attention #knowledge is power #educate yourselves #think for yourselves #think about it #do your homework #reeducate yourselves #think for yourself #do some research #reeducate yourself #Alternate Timeline #Alternate Universe #Alternate Reality #Mandela Effect #the mandela effect #CERN #the reality of it all #how many times? #bernstein #berenstein #berenstain #glitch #glitch in the matrix #glitch in the system #timeline hopping #quantum immortality #Time To Wake Up

[n0b0dii2]

the preacher doodle.

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[ohhtobeagooner]

starting to feel like the pink kit was a figment of our collective imaginations

#the mandela effect #focusing on the color of the kits instead of the football makes it less painful to watch #arsenal fc

[80smovies]

#Spider Man #Spider Man The Movie #Cannon #Scott Leva #Stan Lee #Steve Ditko #The Mandela Effect #Mandela Effect #Marvel #80s

[paradoxmimzy]

My wife says I’m being haunted by a Saulternate.

#Better call saul #bcs #the mandela effect #tme

[helluvathing]

I feel like I'm having a Mandela effect. When i listened to welcome to night Vale for the very first time i swear on God it was the man in the tan LEATHER jacket with the deer skinned suitcase. But I just relistened to it and there's no leather???? it sounds wrong without the leather. i swear to God it used to be tan leather jacket.

#wtnv #welcome to night vale #welcome to nightvale #cecil baldwin #cecil palmer #the man in the tan jacket with the deer skinned suitcase #mandela effect #the mandela effect