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Folks Online Share 30 Examples Of The Mandela Effect That Were The Most Confusing To Them
Ever got caught recalling something that ended up being false, but you swore something was a thing, especially since everyone else seemed to validate this supposedly false memory?
Yep, you got duped by what is called the Mandela effect. It’s when a bunch of people believe something to be true, when it’s not.
One of the most famous ones, especially in the US, was The Berenstain Bears one, where people were sure it was Berenstein and not Berenstain. But there are many more of them.
Speaking of many more, Redditors have recently been listing the ones that messed with their minds the most. The thread managed to get almost 13,000 upvotes with a handful of Reddit awards, and generate over 8,400 comments.
We invite you to check out the best responses in a curated list below, and while you’re at it, upvote the ones that messed with your mind too, and leave a comment with some effects that you know.
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#1
The monopoly guy not having a monocle
Andre Blue 3 years ago
He did wear a monocle, but only when Mr. Peanut would stay the night and forgot it in his rush to get to work in the morning.
Space whale 3 years ago (edited)
Simply a case if us thinking he was more fancy than he actually was.
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#2
I don't know if it counts, but I had a favorite orange t-shirt and I haven't seen it in years. Asked my mom if she knows anything about it and described the drawings on it. She went "You mean the turquoise one? It's in x drawer" I fought her a while about it and finally went to check the said drawer and there it was, my favorite "orange" shirt in all its turquoise glory
Libby Tailor 3 years ago
Orange is the negative colour of the turquoise. (Just think of the coloured films)
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
This is very strange. I've only ever heard of one similar thing, on BP of course. I guy had a favorite black mug and drank coffee out of it every day. Then he couldn't find it and when he asked his family, they said "you mean your white mug?" and all swore it had always been white.
Aeon Flux 3 years ago
Interesting, seeing as that's also the opposite on the spectrum.
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Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 3 years ago
Could be a case of alternate timeline, this is a phenomenon that's happened to many people.
Boris’ Mom 3 years ago
So, if you have clothes that have been put away for a while,and you pull them out, and they suddenly have "different details", things added to the design, different colors are some elements (but most ARE EXACTLY AS YOU REMEMBER THEM); no one is messing with you. You just mis-remembered them!?!?!!!.....[Are you SURE you haven't been dropped into an alternate universe of reality???]...........Woah....
#3
Fruit of the Loom cornucopia for sure. It's was there. I remember distinctly, and no other brand has that specific cornucopia. I could probably even draw it from memory if I needed to to
RNA 3 years ago
I do have a t-shirt with this cornucopia version of the logo somewhere. It might be a counterfeit though
Aria Whitaker 3 years ago (edited)
People say this...but no one has posted ANYTHING with a cornucopia...challenge you to find something with it on there....also, this: https://www.fruit.com/fruit-story
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
According to the company, there has never been a cornucopia in the logo. There was a play on words "Flute of the Loom" album in 1973 with food coming out of a flute, but it was never part of the official logo.
Potato 3 years ago
The thing is, if you google "fruit of the loom cornucopia" you see the exact logo that we all "misremembered." Which means that logo did, in fact, exist. But where did it come from, when, and why? I'm about to fall down a rabbit hole, see you in hell!
Potato 3 years ago
A comment from Reddit: So their filling in 1973 did include the cornucopia the application status cancelled is because they changed their logo and removed the cornucopia thus having to file for a new trademark logo. Companies constantly go through iterations of logos and the majority of the logo based mandela effects are just that. As for fruit of the loom the basket was used in certain promotional instances like commercials which as kids we most likely paid more attention to than the actual tag or image on the clothing or packages which was void of the basket
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Aria Whitaker 3 years ago
Really? Which year? https://www.fruit.com/fruit-story
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#4
Pikachus tail having a black end
Pikachu doesn't have that
Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
He doesn’t??!! WHAT?! I remember drawing him as a little kid and adding him with a black part on his tail…
Oli Oli 3 years ago
*laughs in the cosplay pikachu has that* ((it's also a heart at the end!))
Kira Okah 3 years ago
And is the only one, probably as a nod to the legend. The heart shape just means that she's a female pikachu.
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#5
The one that always gets me is particular to my friends and I from when we were kids. There was a creek that ran under the street in the neighborhood and we would sometimes hang out in the banks on either side of the road. There was this big rock that we would sit on all the time. Except one day we were walking by and it wasn’t a rock. It was a small tree. Fully rooted in and established and the rock was no where to be seen. Mind you, it was an extremely heavy boulder. We passed that spot all the time and all of us remember that rock. We call it the shapeshifting rock.
#6
The fact that shaggy doesn’t have a protruding Adam’s apple
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I have memories of when he was scared and it would bob up and down like crazy.
Yort 3 years ago
This post is about people remembering something as a fact that turns out to not be true, in this case this person remembers Shaggy having an Adam’s apple.
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This one is a bit more personal to me, but growing up my mom and I always made an effort to go to the beach every Friday afternoon.
When it got too dark to be in the water, we would make our way to the park that was right next to the beach.
On some Fridays, we would just chill on one of the slides and look at the stars. One day I saw this light spinning around and I remember asking my mom what it was.
She told me that it was a lighthouse, and that it's used at night to stop ships from crashing into the shore.
I remember this vividly because it was kind of like my gateway into hyperfixating on sunken and shipwrecked ships.
Years later, over a decade (so this was probably in the mid to late 2000s), I got back into lighthouses. I go online to see if this lighthouse that I saw was still in commission, and I can't find any traces of it.
So I ask my mom, and apparently this conversation we had never took place according to her. I insist, and finally she's like "idk babes, I probably forgot"
So I go looking deeper, and apparently there was never a lighthouse where I thought it was.
To this day it f**ks me up, because I KNOW what I saw, I KNOW what we talked about.
Maryanna Baldridge 3 years ago
Did you ever visit other beaches that did have a lighthouse? Sometimes we can merge more than one memory together.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
You can't reply to Reddit posters from here. They're all copy and pasted.
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#8
Apparently Kit Kat has no hiphen
Steve R 3 years ago
If you keep reading something you're not interested in, it isn't the article that's stupid. It's you.
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Never mistake KitKat (candy) and Kitekat (cat food). They do not taste remotely the same...
LeeBreezy 3 years ago
they do if you get the virus....sorry if thats insensitive
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Yort 3 years ago
No, it doesn’t, that person just remembers there being a hyphen but there isn’t,
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It’s spelled Febreze, not Febreeze
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
It's always been Febreze, but there is a product called "FleaBreeze" which is scented spray for dog beds.
SobyKay 3 years ago (edited)
I dont know why this made me laugh. Dog products ripping it off I guess 😆
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Uchman 3 years ago
Your trademarked name can be spelled/pronounced any how you like
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Donna Rock 3 years ago
I'm no English major but I think myself to be a greater than average speller, I learned how to spell by sounding it out when I was young, & picked it up quickly... I too remember distinctly it being spelt with two ee's together, & I remember one day seeing it the way it apparently is spelt now & thinking it was an off brand & I couldn't find the other one & I thought 'that's not hour you spell febreeze'.
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Lady Vader 3 years ago
How many people (me included) have just been to the kitchen cupboard to check?!?!?
#10
Beats by Dr. Dre. I’m almost positive that it was “Beats by Dre.” But I went and found my old headphones and sure enough it says “Dr.” Its even weirder because it looks so wrong and crowded on the headband.
Jordan Harcombe 3 years ago
I think it was marketed verbally as “Beats by Dre” but that was short form
#11
C-3PO has one silver leg. Every costume gets this wrong.
von Funnyname 3 years ago
I believe there is something in one of the books, or comics perhaps, that puts this in canon
Quinn Alexander 3 years ago
I actually remember this one because my old 3PO toy had one, I thought it was just sunbleached. That said, he didn't have it in the prequels so the suits are still canon...just...the *bad* canon lol
Jerry Conaway 3 years ago
Some super-fan help me out here. In "The Empire Strikes Back", after Artoo is eaten and regurgitated by the Lake Monster, Luke tells him "You were lucky to get out of there". BUT, in the original theatrical release, Luke says "You are lucky you don't taste very good!" If i'm wrong, then that means I have died and quantum-jumped to a parallel universe!
Kira Okah 3 years ago
Any not Disney stuff gets it wrong, because Disney changed it for some reason in their sequels. Probably because they didn't notice that it was silver.
Moose 3 years ago
Or he was in disrepair between Ep3 and 7 and got his leg replaced after Jedi. In Sith his leg is gold because the gold shell is new. 20 years later his leg had been replaced wit a silver one and the. Was again replaced after the civil war
Load More Replies... Kevin Warner 3 years ago
Don't forget they Ret-Conned being made by a slave with leftover parts, AND having been blown apart once requiring Chewbacca to reassemble him again!
#12
Curious George ain’t got no tail
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
From Veggie Tales: “If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey; even if it has a monkey kind of shape. If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey. If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, it’s an ape!”
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Leah Purdy 3 years ago (edited)
I think in the original books by Margret and H.A. Rey they described him as a "monkey" even though he was a chimpanzee. Just a common misnomer. Here in Canada the opening song for the animated series went : "Curious George, the curious little monkey. He's so full of curiosity. Curious George, the curious little monkey. Just how curious? Just wait and see!"
Sam Yobado 3 years ago
They refer to him in the books as a monkey, which might impact the memories.
RandomBeing 3 years ago
I noticed this when i was watching it with my sister and she paused it. Messed me up for a moment.
#13
My friend TRULY believes to his core, that Jane Goodall passed away 15-20 years ago
Lolliegag 3 years ago
I used to think the same thing. I think she is who I'm thinking of, thank you!
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Vicky Z 3 years ago
This happens to me all the time! Celebrities die and I'm like "weren't they dead already"? But also suddenly i hear about someone that died years ago and thought they are still alive
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I worked on an interview with her just a few months ago. She's just fine. Maybe she was thinking of Joyce Adamson?
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I hope not, because I attended a wonderful lecture she gave not terribly long ago.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I also 100% remember this, and was shocked to learn a few years that she was still alive. It's been suggested to me since then that maybe I'm remembering the murder of a different female researcher who was killed by poachers about 20 years ago.
Corey Adams 3 years ago
I swear Bobby Gillespie OD'd tragically but impressively he still tours
Rivo Haavandi 3 years ago
I thought the same recently but realized that my mind blended her and Diane Fossey into being the same person or something..
#14
My mom doesn’t have the best memory. I called her when I found out about this one and go, “Do you remember that movie when sinbad was a genie?” Without missing a beat she goes, “Yeah Shazam, right? You guys watched that all the time.” I said “you’re not confusing it with kazaam with shaq right?” She says “No you guys didn’t like that one as much you liked the sinbad one better.” She was mind blown that it doesn’t exist. I think she even looked through our vhs collection cause she’s was like we definitely have that movie but she never found it. Shame.
Potato 3 years ago
Sinbad did host a Sinbad the Sailor movie marathon in 1994 in which he dressed up as a genie. In addition, Shaquille O'Neal starred as a genie in the 1996 movie Kazaam, which also may contribute to the collective confusion.
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Donae Sommerfeld Lugo 3 years ago (edited)
It's called Shazaam. They may have deleted it's existence, but it was a real(ly bad) movie.
SupaCab 3 years ago
That was an April Fools Day prank done by the guys College Humor
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AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
I don't care what anybody says, this movie existed. I watched it as a kid a million times. We all did there is some kind of weird ass conspiracy for sure going on with this.
#15
I really thought the Raisin Bran sun wore sunglasses. Nope.
2S2N 3 years ago
Seems like I remember the sun putting them on in the TV commercials back in 70s/80s
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
This mascot has been redrawn numerous times. I wouldn't be surprised if one variation had sunglasses at some point.
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
Why would he wear glasses? He's the sun. Also, you might be thinking of the California Raisins
Leah Dickerson 3 years ago
He's a raisin, in the sun. He definitely had sunglasses
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Jason Manning 3 years ago
The sun with the sunglasses was on one of those plastic orange drinks, like Sunny D, right?
#16
For me it will ALWAYS be Berenstien bears. My mom and I felt like our whole lives were a lie when we looked back at the books one day and saw BerenSTAIN bears. The f**k?
Bunzilla 3 years ago
This one really gets me too. I remember thinking it was weird that the name was spelled like Frankenstein.
Space whale 3 years ago
Another thing about the berenstain bears the logo. It doesn't have the girls elbow out.
Vortex Lazer 3 years ago
The Angry Video Game Nerd did an episode on this before. The video on that day would change between Berenstein and Berenstain.
#17
Looney Tunes not Looney Toons. I was convinced it was Toons, as in cartoons.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FOUND THIS!! I THOUGHT I HAD GONE MAD, like 2 years ago!!!!🤯
Kira Okah 3 years ago
Tunes as in melodies as in Merrie Melodies right? Taht is how I remembered that it was Looney Tunes.
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
Exactly, both knock-offs of Disney's Silly Symphonies.
Load More Replies... Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago (edited)
Tunes as in melodies. Like Merry Melodies. They were all about the score.
Martin Ibert 3 years ago
Damn Americans pronouncing "toon" and "tune" the same. "Tune" has a "y" sound in it: "tyoon". If everyone knew that, this kind of thing wouldn't happen. :-D
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Think about it...the original was focused on the music with the cartoon, hence Tunes
#18
i swear to f**king god mickey mouse had suspenders
Robert T 3 years ago
I thought in some of the early movies he did, but I can't find a picture. What is clearly confusing the issue is that he has buttons on the front and rear of his pants for attaching suspenders (braces). I don't remember him ever wearing stockings (which is what we in the UK would hold up with suspenders!).
Gabrielle B. Marcelo 3 years ago
steamboat willie. he had them in steamboat willie
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TahJia Williams 3 years ago
when he was on that boat in the black and white film he did. he even snapped them while stearing
Quinn Alexander 3 years ago
This one I never thought; his torso would be really noisy with those and he'd look more like a f****n' hick or something.
#19
On Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album cover, there’s a red hat in his back pocket, not a bandana.
Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
Yes and that would be important otherwise he is inadvertently telling another man he likes to be fisted.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
Excuse me what did i just read and how can i unread it?
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Ed Brandon 3 years ago
I think that one's more simple and just because it doesn't really look like a cap unless you look pretty closely. A glance and it looks like something else.
Ellie 3 years ago
What in god’s name are you on about? He’s a singer. Why are you romanticising manual labour and making it superior to other jobs in the process? Or is this an American political thing I don’t know about - being from the other side of the pond.
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“The Picture of Dorian Gray” always thought it was Portrait
. 3 years ago
they mean that the book is actually called "The Picture of Dorian Gray" but they believed it was "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"
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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
What? It was portrait! Wasn't it? All right, which of the Doctor's companions mucked it up?
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Name of the books is "The Picture of Dorian Gray", that revolves around the 'portrait' of Dorian Gray, which may be considered an allegoric depiction.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I thought there was a movie with Portrait but I just checked and it was Picture too.
Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)
Same! That was shocking to find out! Can we agree that "portrait of Dorian grey" is a lot better as a title? (By the way i think the translation in my language is portrait so maybe that's why most of us think the same? How is it in other languages pandas?)
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#21
“Froot loops” became “fruit loops” then “froot loops” again
Mousey 3 years ago
I agree.. Pretty sure they could never call it "fruit" because there is no fruit anything in it.
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
In 1959 they started as "Fruit Loops" but were sued in 1963 because there is no fruit anywhere near this stuff, and became Froot Loops.
Thistle 3 years ago
yeah i remember researching on the mandela effect a few months back, i distinctly remember the article saying it wasn't "froot loops" and instead "fruit loops". but the thing is i found that same article again after seeing this and it's now "froot loops" instead of fruit loops??? what is happening lol
TahJia Williams 3 years ago
it was always fruit loops not because "theres no real fruit" get real. its Froot Loops because you can stick 4 of those things where the 'oo's go
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
It was always Froot. Cuz there is no actual fruit anywhere near this stuff.
#22
Britney Spears, 'Oops I Did it Again' she isn't wearing a headset. Toys and costumes with the red outfit always have a headset.
In the video you can clearly see her adjust a headset that doesn't exist.
Or in 'Baby One More Time' she was wearing a plaid skirt... I guess it's solid black??
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
People seem to combine and confuse live performance and official video footage.
#23
Reddi Wip
i swear to god there was an H in the wip…
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
There are lots of canned whipped products that do have the H, so honest mistake.
#24
I remember SpongeBob holding a V shaped purple guitar now it's a peanut?
Xottel 3 years ago
Maybe you got it confused with the guitar of Sandy Cheeks during the Sweet Victory performance. (S2 E15)
Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
Yeah. V-shape guitar is from the sweet victory concert.
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TahJia Williams 3 years ago
noooope it was always a Peanut! this is the only one i know for absolutely sure. #DieHardSpongeBob
#25
Tom Cruise dancing in Risky Business.
I'd have sworn he was wearing a white shirt and black Ray-Bans.
Dodo 3 years ago
David Arquette in Never Been Kissed is definitely in a white shirt and sunglasses, parodying it.
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Jody Whitmarsh 3 years ago
I think he started with sun glasses on in that scene but they got tossed at the beginning of his dance
TTorrest Author 3 years ago
I just looked it up (after giving you an upvote)... we're both wrong. :/
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TheBlackPanda (JustABlackBear) 3 years ago
At first glance I thought it was Ashton Kutcher in the picture
Stephen Lyford 3 years ago
He's definitely wearing sunglasses in a later part of the movie, and I think people just conflate the two looks.
KATHLEEN MORRIS 3 years ago
he totally had shades at some point! (def in a later sceen...when he announced he'd be going to a community college (NOT Ivy League or some such?)
#26
The "objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear" one still bugs me.
DUN DUN (she/her) 3 years ago
I always thought it was "objects in mirror ARE closer than they appear" 😵
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Either they are or they aren't, you made the mirror, that's no "may be" about it!
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I hear a lot of people say it that way, but I've never seen it written that way, I don't think.
#27
Walkers crisps where the salt and vinegar were blue and cheese and onion were green. I vividly remember it and can't believe that it wasn't like that
Uchman 3 years ago
They didn't. It was Golden Wonder that had the opposite colours.
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G R 3 years ago
This is a case of people remembering something but not the full details. Golden Wonder used to be the market leader for crisps, then suffered a catastrophic failure and the then much smaller company Walkers overtook and completely dominated them. Walkers use the opposite colour scheme to Golden Wonder, so when Golden Wonder failed and Walkers replaced them as the market leader, it meant the colours you'd see in the supermarket or in newsagents changed. Because you were eating a different brand, not because one specific brand changed their own colours. People who think they remember eating Walkers with the opposite colour scheme are actually remembering eating Golden Wonder.
NsG 3 years ago
Walkers were always the exception. Every. Other. Crisp manufacturer has blue for salt & vinegar.
Kira Okah 3 years ago (edited)
Nope. The only shift was in which company dominated the market.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 3 years ago
Nope, never did, always like that. Which brand dominated the market did change however.
Load More Replies... Ed Brandon 3 years ago
Just to shake it up though, Golden Wonder themselves claim that Walkers changed the colour!
Peej Maybe 3 years ago
It's even weirder when you consider nearly every other crisp make or even other snacks made by Walkers have the s & v as blue, the C & O as green.
#28
That when Agatha Christie disappeared mysteriously for several days, she was never seen again and presumed deceased.
Legit had an argument with a friend over this before i figured out what was going on
Helen Haley 3 years ago
She didn't disappear. She was investigating a giant vespiform wasp with the doctor.
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Peej Maybe 3 years ago
She was found again afterwards though but could never account for her time (or at least never fessed up to what she was doing / where she was)
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
Maybe people are thinking of Amelia Earhart. She disappeared while flying with her navigator over the Pacific in 1937. Agatha Christie eventually reappeared after being missing, but she didn't remember where she'd been.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
Funny thing...I was doing some family history research and discovered that Amelia Earhart showed up in my family tree as a distant cousin through a branch that came over from England (as most of my family did). It's fascinating to become acquainted with family that existed long ago, especially when there's an interesting story connected to them.
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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Wasn't there a Doctor Who episode about that? With Doctor 10 and Donna?
#29
Stouffer’s stove top stuffing has apparently never existed.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
There is a Stove Top Stuffing, but it's not made by Stouffer's.
Load More Replies... TahJia Williams 3 years ago
yea because its made by Stove Top, its literally called Stove Top. thats not anyone randomly calls dressing. its a Brand
GoddessOdd 3 years ago (edited)
StoveTop stuffing is made by General Foods, I think... I guess the name is close. I remember the advertising from the 1970s when it was brand new and exciting.
#30
How come no one is talking about the hiking emoji?? I vividly remember there was and hiking emoji where a guy/girl is climbing a rock with a stick on hand, seems like we never had one
Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
That one is so trippy, I swear there was one, Idk how it’s not a thing
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Just JoLynn 3 years ago
I remember the one this person is talking about, it wasn't a rock climber but a person hiking and using a walking stick up a hill or mountain side.
What do you think ?
Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Two of my most vivid childhood memories involve buildings that I now realise didn't exist and couldn't possibly have existed.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I have the same. I went to barcelona, spain, when I was a kid. We visited many places including the Sagrada Familia and a mountain with a small amusement park called Tibidabo. The next time I went I was shocked to see that the church was nowhere near that mountain. I still remember clearly it being there. Its funny how memories can shift.
Load More Replies... H G 3 years ago
The only thing that this article proves is that human memory is total s**t. This is why eye witness testimony shouldn't be used in court.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I think that it should be used but taking it with a lot of skepticism.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 3 years ago
I remember owning a children's book that was about dragons and with each page they would talk about a dragon that had one extra head compared to the dragon before. The dragons also became increasingly dangerous. I loved that book, but it's nowhere to be found and my mom has no idea what I'm talking about.
Jacin Larkwell 3 years ago (edited)
I remember a dragon book too, but with different breeds [species?] in it? Like there was a green dragon, and theyre okay, kinda dangerous and pretty common, but oh no, stay away from Ice dragons and swamp/death/black dragons, because they have poisonous breath and will kill you flat. I even remember the grade i was in when i found it and the library it was in, but cant find it now
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Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
The robber emoji. Never existed. I swear I remember it, the yellow man with the black mask, black hat, striped shirt, and bag of money
Not Proud British 3 years ago
This just goes to show how our memories are not reliable. Different events can merge into one. We have a perception of us being older or younger. They did an experiment in the UK where they set up a TV presenter. An actor stole her bag whilst she was doing a piece to camera. He made sure she saw him. When she was later asked to describe him, the description did not fit the man. It raised some interesting questions.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Yeah I can never understand how people can identify others. Unless I know a person for some time or they are extraordinary I wont remember. Like maybe having a pink Mohawk but not brown normal hair
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Mason Therrien 3 years ago
Here’s a personal Mandela effect. I once watched Shrek when I was little and during the scene where the fairytale creatures are getting locked up, one of them was Puss In Boots from Shrek 2. I even remember my dad pointing it out to me when he was watching it with me
Scarlett 3 years ago
I vividly remember a toy truck I had when I was a little kid. It was blue and white plastic and had a cute little face painted on. I loved that little truck and carried it and my stuffed toys everywhere around my home. I can’t find it in any pictures and my mom swears I never had a toy truck.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I'm fascinated by the ones focused on spelling. Our brains were obviously forcing us to see/remember a more "correct" version (Stein for stain in Berenstain Bears, for exmaple, b/c we're familiar with -stein as a name). An H in whip/wip. etc.
Aliquid 3 years ago
I very rarely look at individual letters in a word. I look at the shape of the overall word, and the context that it is in, and just basically guess what it is. Something like Berenstein bears is something where I would have heard the word before reading it... so when I looked at it, I didn't need to look at the individual letters to know what it was.
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Ronald Copenhagen 3 years ago
5 years ago, one would be considered nuts to even be discussing this. I remember. I was there…
Bunzilla 3 years ago
I'm surprised Uncle Sam isn't on here. A LOT of people, including myself, remember Uncle Sam (the Norman Rockwell Painting / Poster primarily), having a white and red striped hat with the blue star band. There's no dang stripes! It's just white with the blue star band. I googled pictures of him a while ago when I first heard it, and almost all the clipart / fanart / costumes and whatnot had the stripes. Then, when googling it again later... no stripes! Or only very rarely.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Not Norman Rockwell. That was James Montgomery Flagg.
Load More Replies... Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Two of my most vivid childhood memories involve buildings that I now realise didn't exist and couldn't possibly have existed.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I have the same. I went to barcelona, spain, when I was a kid. We visited many places including the Sagrada Familia and a mountain with a small amusement park called Tibidabo. The next time I went I was shocked to see that the church was nowhere near that mountain. I still remember clearly it being there. Its funny how memories can shift.
Load More Replies... H G 3 years ago
The only thing that this article proves is that human memory is total s**t. This is why eye witness testimony shouldn't be used in court.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I think that it should be used but taking it with a lot of skepticism.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 3 years ago
I remember owning a children's book that was about dragons and with each page they would talk about a dragon that had one extra head compared to the dragon before. The dragons also became increasingly dangerous. I loved that book, but it's nowhere to be found and my mom has no idea what I'm talking about.
Jacin Larkwell 3 years ago (edited)
I remember a dragon book too, but with different breeds [species?] in it? Like there was a green dragon, and theyre okay, kinda dangerous and pretty common, but oh no, stay away from Ice dragons and swamp/death/black dragons, because they have poisonous breath and will kill you flat. I even remember the grade i was in when i found it and the library it was in, but cant find it now
Load More Replies... Unnamed Hooman 3 years ago
The robber emoji. Never existed. I swear I remember it, the yellow man with the black mask, black hat, striped shirt, and bag of money
Not Proud British 3 years ago
This just goes to show how our memories are not reliable. Different events can merge into one. We have a perception of us being older or younger. They did an experiment in the UK where they set up a TV presenter. An actor stole her bag whilst she was doing a piece to camera. He made sure she saw him. When she was later asked to describe him, the description did not fit the man. It raised some interesting questions.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Yeah I can never understand how people can identify others. Unless I know a person for some time or they are extraordinary I wont remember. Like maybe having a pink Mohawk but not brown normal hair
Load More Replies... Mason Therrien 3 years ago
Here’s a personal Mandela effect. I once watched Shrek when I was little and during the scene where the fairytale creatures are getting locked up, one of them was Puss In Boots from Shrek 2. I even remember my dad pointing it out to me when he was watching it with me
Scarlett 3 years ago
I vividly remember a toy truck I had when I was a little kid. It was blue and white plastic and had a cute little face painted on. I loved that little truck and carried it and my stuffed toys everywhere around my home. I can’t find it in any pictures and my mom swears I never had a toy truck.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
I'm fascinated by the ones focused on spelling. Our brains were obviously forcing us to see/remember a more "correct" version (Stein for stain in Berenstain Bears, for exmaple, b/c we're familiar with -stein as a name). An H in whip/wip. etc.
Aliquid 3 years ago
I very rarely look at individual letters in a word. I look at the shape of the overall word, and the context that it is in, and just basically guess what it is. Something like Berenstein bears is something where I would have heard the word before reading it... so when I looked at it, I didn't need to look at the individual letters to know what it was.
Load More Replies... Ronald Copenhagen 3 years ago
5 years ago, one would be considered nuts to even be discussing this. I remember. I was there…
Bunzilla 3 years ago
I'm surprised Uncle Sam isn't on here. A LOT of people, including myself, remember Uncle Sam (the Norman Rockwell Painting / Poster primarily), having a white and red striped hat with the blue star band. There's no dang stripes! It's just white with the blue star band. I googled pictures of him a while ago when I first heard it, and almost all the clipart / fanart / costumes and whatnot had the stripes. Then, when googling it again later... no stripes! Or only very rarely.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
Not Norman Rockwell. That was James Montgomery Flagg.
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