Maybe instead of freaking out about the Mandela Effect, we should be freaking out with our willingness to just believe corporations at their word. Because that’s who seems to have the final word in all of these things, especially in situations where you can’t go back and check original artifacts. I’m guessing there’s still some old Berenstain Bears books at garage sales and vintage Pikachu merch is everywhere, but who’s holding onto 40 year-old underwear or peanut butter jars?
Here’s a recent example: Dairy Queen introduced a new Blizzard about ten years ago. It started with a solid chocolate core with ice cream around it. They called it the Fudge Tunnel Blizzard. It was there, on the drivethrough sign, and my friends and I had a field day with it. The branding lasted for a few weeks and then it completely disappeared.
I can’t find branding anywhere on the internet. I know it was there, my friends saw it was there. Nobody took a picture and it vanished. I can’t find it on google. It’s gone. Well, there’s some mention of them adding a “tunnel of fudge” to the Royal Blizzard in 2017, but there’s zero surviving marketing material for the original concept which definitely did not have a golden spoon. I know this because I ordered it. Repeatedly. To make the people behind the intercom say it back to me.
It makes sense that they’d want to scrub everything that ever mentioned eating a Fudge Tunnel at Dairy Queen. For the other stuff… who knows? Marketing departments churn, stuff gets lost, short-run logos get left out of the brand evolution. Yeah, some of this is Mandela effect but can we stop treating corporations as the ultimate authority?
At this point I’m convinced it’s corporate gaslighting. They KNOW there wasn’t consistency because of franchisees, misprints, brand changes, inattentive advertising firms, mistranslations, knocknoffs, and different production lines hitting different specs. But do they own up to it? Nooooo. Apparently the collective society at large just “remembers” it wrong.
I’m convinced that the Mandela effect is just self gaslighting. I don’t have any strong memories about any of these things, so when someone shows me one I think it’s right, then I have a hard time believing it’s not right. If I was shown the correct one first the Mandela effect wouldn’t exist for me.
I hate this stupid-english product naming scheme so much
If you’re of a certain age, you can’t get Oscar Mayer wrong.
My bologna has a first name. It’s O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a second name. It’s M-A-Y-E-R. Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A
100%, this wasn’t one I remembered differently.
nope, Fruit of the loom got me, i had seen the monopoly and curious george ones had no tail, but they knocked me for a loop a decade ago, Looney Toons was kind of shadowy in my mind, toones makes more sense, but the “merry melodies” moniker muddled the water, we brain cells. I always called the bears by what sounds like the first one, but i always knew it wasn’t spelled that way, i remmeber reading the books when I was young and my parents corrected the pronoinciation on me. I went with it because … ‘english’ but i always knew it wasn’t spelled like we said it, we don’t genrally promounce february and wednesday very well so who was 5 year old me to argue with an adult that would smack my ass for being argumentative. :)
Its almost as if these companies keep altering their logos because that would be insane.
I give up, what’s the difference between the two Chick-fil-A?
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Just the spelling: Chic-fil-A vs. Chick-fil-A.
I have specific memories of how the spelling of Chic-fil-a looked so wierd to me, especially at a mall where the word chic actually gets used.
The Mandela effect is for people whose ego is so large that they believe that being catapulted into a parallel dimension without having noticed is a more plausible explanation than that they’re slightly wrong about something insignificant
Agent Smith, everybody.
I make an active choice to believe I got catapulted into another dimension because that’s more entertaining and interesting than being slightly wrong, thank you very much!
the panel on the right is in fact right, the weird logo stuff bothers me because.
- who cares ?
- counterfeit/fakes exist
- misprints
- actual logo changes
The typos? You better believe it, you read that wrong, but see point 3 as well.
as much as I want to think it’s only ego, there’s absolutely no way SO many people independently of each other remember the fruit of the loom logo had a cornucopia
…granted there’s absolutely no way the solution to this conundrum is an alternate universe lmao
I’m with you on the cornucopia, there’s no way that logo didn’t exist somewhere.
The cornucopia was there. I swear on my life I saw it.
I’m now convinced that there was a knock-off brand that posed as Fruit of the Loom for years with the altered logo. That’s the only explanation I’ll accept. Mandela effect my ass.
Years ago, after 57 Chevies became the iconic representation of the 50s, and got REAL popular, I read about how there were far more 57 Chevies around than could be accounted for by official production.
It turns out that there were:
A dedicated group of ex-Chevrolet stylists and franchised used-car salesmen continued to turn out close to 200,000 1957 Chevrolets, focusing on the 2-door Bel-Air model, between the years 1957 and 1967, in a small auto assembly plant located outside Jacksonville, Ill.
That is literally how i learned what a cornucopia was. I asked my mom what fruit it was
Literally the same for me, except it was my father. Not that I believe the Mandela effect per se, but I really wish I had a proper explanation for that one.
maybe your father is his mother in an alternate house
Froot Loops has always been that way. Back when I was a kid, they only had three colours - red, orange, and yellow - and I remember being bothered that they had to repeat one of them. Problem got solved when they rolled out green.
Blue and purple must have rocked your world.
I can confirm the current universe chick fil a because I’d never seen or heard it until I was an adult, which was before they got infamous for being anti LGBT. When I first drove past the sign I asked the people I was with “WTF is chick feel ah?” If it’d been “chic” I would’ve pronounced it like the French loanword (ie “sheek”).
Opposite for me. I remember being bothered that they didn’t spell chick right. I wonder if the other universes me is happy…
Still no. :(
I thought “Chick filla” was some kind of entendre until I actually learned about them
That’s a new one.
Found some more pixels
You’re a hero. Now I can be upset about Frebreeze too.
I’d rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel then accept that my memories might be wrong.
The flip side of this that that you can be lied to without consequence. I’m not saying most of these are real, but pretending like this has never happened is asking for an additional serving of boot.
I’d rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel
The Organization is out to deceive you
El Psy Kongroo
“WHAT?” *pauses midway through microwaving a banana
“…” floats frozen through space
Geez… How do I beetle juice 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works?
The dimensional jump did a number on my back and knees, too. And hairline.
We have to go back!
Oh god they got you too!
The bastards took our hair and switched out our ligaments!
Those sumbitches!
We have to go back!
But now you have a sick beard.
This blew my mind, at the time.
Yeah i remember it so clearly
The ending of lost was so amazing
My two acceptable hypotheses:
- We are in a simulation and these are remnants from server migration/discrepancies in the instances.
- These are dry runs of the man seeing what history they can get away with rewriting and convince us was true.
No. I cannot create false memories. Nope. I can’t do it. I won’t listen to you. It’s not true! Nonononononononooooooooooooooooooooo! This isn’t my fault! 👉😫👈 lalalalalala
OUR MUSHY BRAINS CREATE MUSHY MEMORIES
No no no, you’re not buying extra crunchy peanut butter
Don worry I’ll hire my crow friends to get the peanuts.
I see you’ve read my recent post on “The Crow”
The worst fucking lie they made up was the pronunciation of GIF being based on the peanut butter company. That is exactly the sort of bullshit excuse a shadowy cabal looking to rewrite history would come up with to gaslight everyone into believing it’s true.
I love that pretty much everyone says the creator of the gif format is saying his format name wrong.
Just because the guy is good at tech doesn’t mean he’s good at naming things.
I’d like to site the names of like… Half the FOSS software I see.
Yeah, we devs and computer people aren’t good at names. Half the time the name is the acronym of what it is/does RAM, CPU, GPU… Othertimes its something the Dev thought would be cool.
He’s a crisis actor, I don’t buy it!
Motherfuckers… is this why i’ve been remembering shit that other people say never happened? or remembering something people said and then them saying they said something different? wait i recently saw a movie about some guy trying to break out of his reality by flying a rocket to the edge of the universe and has been dimension hoping the entire trip, this is trippy…
Edit: i can’t find the name of the movie but the plot is as described and he realises he is dimension hoping because his partner is suddenly alive after he killed him or he died in an accident on the ship, can’t remember what happened and at the end he also realises he is in a loop and after he crashes into the edge he chooses the dimension in which he never went into space and escapes the loop, anyone have an idea of what the movie might be called or am i just trippin balls and that movie doesn’t exist in this dimension?
is this why i’ve been remembering shit that other people say never happened? or remembering something people said and then them saying they said something different?
I mean, if you want the real answer, it’s just that it is incredibly easy to create false memories. Then add in all the social pressure fun that can warp your viewpoint, and you’re off to the races.
ANy other info? New film? Old? Any notable actors? US film or from elsewhere? I dug around, but nothing I could find in ten minutes fit your description. Am interested in knowing too as I love these types of films.
Goddamn it took some specific digging but i found it, it’s called “Beyond the Edge” (2016).
Nice find! Rated 3.6/10 on imdb. Is it really that bad? Meh, I’ll watch it anyways.
Edit: Alternate title is “ISRA 88”. Adrienne Barbeau has a bit part in it. The film is a bit middling, but maybe not 3.6. Maybe a 4.5/10.
God dammit it happened again!
Plot twist: ur the main chrctr
I always suspected as much.
I have no idea, but it sounds like an interesting premise.
Found it, it’s called “Beyond the Edge” (2016).
Alternative title is “ISRA 88”. Just watched it. It’s interesting, but a little clunky. Maybe not as bad as the 3.6/10, but I feel it misses the mark. They didn’t make the alternate realities portion of the story as compelling (or real) as they could’ve. It could be a stage play with how low-tech the sets/environment are, but I can overlook that, so nbd. Just didn’t have enough oomph. ;)
Oh, and Adrienne Barbeau is in it!
Thar reminds me how I misread “Disney” as “Disnep” in their cursive logo for a long time in my childhood. Does that mean there is a Disnep dimension out there? :P
Gisnep
I joke that it can be read as disneyp because of the fucking cursive too
Yes, that branched new timelines where Disnep owns everything, etc. It’s pretty basic science.
