I accepted I was wrong about The Thinker... now I'm confused all over again.
I've always remembered The Thinker with a fist under his chin.
Years ago I watched my first Mandela Effect video. They explained that the statue actually had its fist against its forehead. I remember being completely blown away. I even Googled pictures afterward and every image I found showed the fist on the forehead. I asked family and friends about it and they all laughed, saying it had always been like that and that it was never under the chin. Eventually I accepted that I must have remembered it wrong.
Today I was randomly talking about the statue with my girlfriend and mentioned how I used to think it had a fist under its chin. I told her I had no idea why I remembered it that way.
She looked completely confused.
So I pulled up Google Images to show her.
Now the hand is under the chin again.
The weird part is that it still isn't exactly how I originally remembered it. I remember a closed fist under the chin. Now the hand looks different. His right elbow is resting on his left leg, and I don't remember him looking like he has a hat or head covering either.
I was honestly more shocked seeing this than I was the first time. I have a very clear memory of seeing countless pictures with the fist on the forehead and accepting that I had remembered it wrong. Now it feels like it has changed again.
Has anyone else experienced this exact sequence? First remembering the fist under the chin, then discovering it was supposedly on the forehead, and now seeing it back under the chin? I genuinely don't know what to make of it.