Since recently YouTube started making the suggestion that I should watch videos about The Mandela Effect. I'm not sure why but I guess occasionally watching videos about conspiracies, Pyramids and UFOs puts you in that box.
While ignoring the topic for some time, over the weekend I finally clicked on one of the videos to see what's behind that issue - and it did not disappoint:
Wild and crazy with a hint of superficial probability.
The Mandela Effect Explained
The alledged "effect" is named after Nelson Mandela, the South African politician. Apparently, some people thought he died already in the early 1990s and not in 2013. They were absolutely convinced to have read about his death back then and watched TV reports about his demise and described the events around it in quite some detail.
The number of people who thought him to be dead since the 1990s was so big that it caught some attention in the Internet. People exchanged their alledged memories and debated the issue until someone decided to turn it into a bigger theory and called it The Mandela Effect.
At the center of this bigger theory sits the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Some people believe that its activities disrupt our universe. Earthquakes, micro black holes, shifting realities, eating homework - the CERN is supposedly responsible for all sorts of phenomena from plausible to fancy and at one point, the CERN and the false(?) memories of Mandelas death have mingled.
According to the theory behind The Mandela Effect, the CERN caused a break-down of our reality and merged several closely related parallel universes into one and some of us are from this reality and some of us are from the other reality. We all still have the memories from our original universes, but we are also faced with different facts from other universes in the current mix of realities. And to make matters worse, this mixed reality is not stable, but changes continuously. The only good news is that this memory confusion will end somewhere around 2020 as soon as everything has been changed.
Sounds complicated, but is very simple in its effects when you see some examples.
Shazaam or not Shazaam?
Wait... What?? Morgan Freeman didn´t die in 2013??? ;)
Oh, and I loved the Shazaam-Movie - a classic!
I'd first heard about the Mandela effect with "The Berenstein Bears vs. The Berenstain Bears" controversy. For those who don't know it is a popular children's book that people collectively remember the spelling wrong (myself included). I'm pretty sure I am also from your alternate million dollar lingerie model universe.
I was the manager of a movie theater at the time this came out. This is the correct quote.
Jane Goodall wasn't killed by apes.
But, there was another woman scientist who was killed by villagers and the movie Gorillas in the Mist portrays that, with the lesser known scientist, Dian Fossey
Berenstain Bears vs Berenstein is probably the biggest one, because it apparently depends on where you grew up.
And the Mandela Effect was around before the The Large Hadron Collider....or is that part of what happened?
Simple enough. Old VW logos just got dirty or warn so that you wouldn't see the line.
Or fake ones were too lazy to make the line.
...eine Runde Mitleid...oooooh
:)
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