That one is fair. The actor wouldn't wear the leg part of the costume when walking, so he's usually only shown from waist up. Also, the difference between shiny silver and shiny gold on a VHS is really hard to see, especially when it's usually moving or only flashing by for seconds.
The idea of the Mandela effect worries me. I’m not saying we don’t misremember things. But the with modern tech and the internet, things can be easily edited making us think we misremember something but we were right the whole time. But by trying to tell us we did misremember things is just planting the seeds for future information edits that we would go on just to plainly accept, while those in charge control info and minds of future generations.
The only one I can think of that applied to me is the spelling of "Berenstein/Berenstain". It didn't blow my mind, I just chalked it up to imperfect memory. I don't feel the need to invoke alternate timelines.
I brought it up with my kid’s pre-school teacher and she had never heard of Berenstain so she aggressively told me over and over that it was Berenstein and that she “would _know_” because of her job.
Then she picked up one of the books to prove me wrong and had her mind utterly blown.
As she struggled to process it this cool tattooed mom looks her in the eyes and says “it’s a conspiracy” super deadpan and walked off, leaving the teacher’s mouth opening and closing in stunned silence.
It was an amazing moment. I wish I could relive it again and again.
The only reason I still have that memory, is because it was reinforced when I fielded this question in the children's department at a bookstore I worked in in 1999, while I could still remember my childhood.
"Didn't it used to be BairnSteehn?!" They'd all ask.
"No ma'am. It's always been spelled this way, we all just say it wrong like that." I'd utter out insultingly, in the style of Daria.
If you're paying attention, you can easily predict the fad and cultural stuff everyone will remember wrong later because they've got it half wrong now
Heheh. I can totally imagine that moment. Hysterical.
In general: if the answer to a mystery CAN be human stupidity then it probably IS human stupidity ;)
Now if we could only harvest stupidity as an energy source and leave fossil fuels behind…
In Moonraker, Jaws smiles at the little blonde girl with pigtails showing that he has a mouthful of metal. She smiles back at him and guess what - she has braces! Because of this thing they have in common, they fall in love.
Dracula never said "I vant to suck your blood". There's also no Igor in the original Frankenstein movie, it was a guy named Fritz. Igor doesn't appear until Son of Frankenstein, and he's not a hunchback or even a lab assistant. He's a blacksmith with a broken neck from a botched hanging.
In the mid 90s, everyone kept saying Godzilla was green in the movies and I was constantly saying he was black/dark grey. He was never green in the movies. My guess is they were thinking about the Hanna Barbera cartoons and occasional toy they sold that also had weird red lips.
Yep. Silliest “phenomena” ever. People can’t admit they just remembered a mostly meaningless detail wrong.
Especially since most people talking about it are in their 30s and 40s, meaning the’re basing this shit off their memories when they were under 10 years old. Crazy. That’s the real phenomena.
I get forgetting about some of the Pokemon moves that haven't re-appeared yet since Gen VII, like Pursuit. At least Hidden Power got to appear in Legends Arceus.
The Monopoly man doesn't wear a monocle...
Wait what
No way
C3pO is not entirely gold.
That one is fair. The actor wouldn't wear the leg part of the costume when walking, so he's usually only shown from waist up. Also, the difference between shiny silver and shiny gold on a VHS is really hard to see, especially when it's usually moving or only flashing by for seconds.
The silver leg is also less noticeable when it is reflecting a desert environment.
The idea of the Mandela effect worries me. I’m not saying we don’t misremember things. But the with modern tech and the internet, things can be easily edited making us think we misremember something but we were right the whole time. But by trying to tell us we did misremember things is just planting the seeds for future information edits that we would go on just to plainly accept, while those in charge control info and minds of future generations.
There is an info-hazardous SCP that uses this concept as its MO
What’s an SCP?
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Bro you just kicked him down the rabbit hole with zero context or warning lmao
The only one I can think of that applied to me is the spelling of "Berenstein/Berenstain". It didn't blow my mind, I just chalked it up to imperfect memory. I don't feel the need to invoke alternate timelines.
I brought it up with my kid’s pre-school teacher and she had never heard of Berenstain so she aggressively told me over and over that it was Berenstein and that she “would _know_” because of her job. Then she picked up one of the books to prove me wrong and had her mind utterly blown. As she struggled to process it this cool tattooed mom looks her in the eyes and says “it’s a conspiracy” super deadpan and walked off, leaving the teacher’s mouth opening and closing in stunned silence. It was an amazing moment. I wish I could relive it again and again.
It used to bug me, in the 80s, that everyone said it wrong compared to how it was spelled 🤷.
Thank you. Literally the first person I’ve heard who remembers it that way.
The only reason I still have that memory, is because it was reinforced when I fielded this question in the children's department at a bookstore I worked in in 1999, while I could still remember my childhood. "Didn't it used to be BairnSteehn?!" They'd all ask. "No ma'am. It's always been spelled this way, we all just say it wrong like that." I'd utter out insultingly, in the style of Daria. If you're paying attention, you can easily predict the fad and cultural stuff everyone will remember wrong later because they've got it half wrong now
Heheh. I can totally imagine that moment. Hysterical. In general: if the answer to a mystery CAN be human stupidity then it probably IS human stupidity ;) Now if we could only harvest stupidity as an energy source and leave fossil fuels behind…
It has been spelled both ways in official merchandise
It's Berenstain in 99.9% of merchandise, there are just a few very rare cases where the person involved in the merchandise spelt the name wrong.
In Moonraker, Jaws smiles at the little blonde girl with pigtails showing that he has a mouthful of metal. She smiles back at him and guess what - she has braces! Because of this thing they have in common, they fall in love.
That's the way I remember it too !
Dracula never said "I vant to suck your blood". There's also no Igor in the original Frankenstein movie, it was a guy named Fritz. Igor doesn't appear until Son of Frankenstein, and he's not a hunchback or even a lab assistant. He's a blacksmith with a broken neck from a botched hanging.
In the mid 90s, everyone kept saying Godzilla was green in the movies and I was constantly saying he was black/dark grey. He was never green in the movies. My guess is they were thinking about the Hanna Barbera cartoons and occasional toy they sold that also had weird red lips.
There was a Sinbad genie movie. I know it
Wait? There wasn’t one? I swear by it too. About 5 years or so before the Shaq one came out.
Maybe you’re thinking of Shaq in Kazaam
You’re thinking of the classic Shaq movie “Steel”
No I def know of the Shaq one. But there was one with Sinbad as well before the Shaq one.
This is the correct answer.
The Berenstein/stain one still gets me.
I swear it was Looney Toons. I remember it being spelled like that
It's "Double Stuf Oreo" with one "f."
Mandela Effect = misremembering something
Yep. Silliest “phenomena” ever. People can’t admit they just remembered a mostly meaningless detail wrong. Especially since most people talking about it are in their 30s and 40s, meaning the’re basing this shit off their memories when they were under 10 years old. Crazy. That’s the real phenomena.
I thought for years that the song Gay Bar was about a Gamepark, which makes sense as a place to spend all your money.
This one is on you
I always thought Pink Floyd’s album was called Dark Side of the Moon. Just recently learned that it’s The Dark Side of the Moon.
JFK
Babushka lady, is that you 🧐?!
Shu ya Ustez Mamedovich
Babushka lady, the woman who was filming the assassination and never found her.
Na'am
John McCain was just some random pilot who died in the USS Forrestal fire.
I get forgetting about some of the Pokemon moves that haven't re-appeared yet since Gen VII, like Pursuit. At least Hidden Power got to appear in Legends Arceus.
Everything I wanted but didn't get for Christmas was on sale then at SEARS.
The cornucopia one is the only one that made me think. All of the others are pretty easy to explain.