r/MandelaEffect

Oftentimes in this sub, people aim to disprove a Mandela effect by showing proudly the “known publicly accepted fact” relative to that ME.

For example, this applauded post showing an old Fruit of The Loom t-shirt without the cornucopia in the logo, and saying tranquilly that ME here is therefore just “mental”: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/1shpp01/fruit_of_the_loom_proof/

Yet a Mandela effect being a different (false, for skeptics) memory of what has always been, then simply showing what has always been cannot, by definition, be a disproof.  There is obvious circularity going on here. At most, you’re implicitly showing that we haven’t found any approved physical residue of a supposed “previous” state of a thing, but that is not the point you want to make here.

And even in response to those who claim that something has changed, then simply showing the actual state & history of a thing cannot be a disproof, because, as it happens, the change is claimed to be retroactive.  This is indeed how the Mandela effect works: it starts from an alternate memory, which then sometimes triggers a claim that reality has retroactively changed (because the memory is so vivid, has indirect memories associated with it, etc), or simply triggers the less excentric search for memory-based explanations.

So for these reasons, I think the actual state & history of things really has to be taken for granted in our forum, i.e. in the context of a long-term Mandela effect discussion.

And the interesting debate should rather be on what causes the Mandela effect, whether memory-based or paranormal reason.

What do you think ?

I thought Earth Day as being on April 20th. Google says it's been April 22nd since 1970.

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I remember as a kid, Diglett had a middle evolution with two heads. I swear it did. Now apparently that has never been a thing. Maybe it's just my head trying to fill in gaps.

With a specific actor and name. There is also a history going back to the early 2000s of people talkibg about this on things like message boards(fire emblem board gamefaqs for instance). I feel like this is the biggest and oddest Mandella effect because no one really cared much about Kazam! or Simbad to begin with. So how did we all create this in our minds?

Let's say you made a mockup of a mandela effect and people say "Eyy, that's it! That's what I was thinking!" When that doesn't work because that's not obviously not what you saw, that's not even what the person who made the mockup saw. It simply aligned with your thinking regardless of it was real in the past or not, the past most likely would've been a different image.

The human mind is already miniscule with thoughts from years ago that you don't catch much, so you didn't really have the original thought or image stored inside you either.

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