u/ogodprotectme

How could it possibly be the case that not a single piece of old clothing has ever been found with the cornucopia on it? There is one image of some south american knock off socks, and a crusty, unverifiable photo of a building with the "old" logo on it, but thats it? not a single redditor has found any old t shirts or anything?

I am not asking this rhetorically, I am genuinely curious what the possible explanations for this could be.

So often in this sub, I see people swearing by their own memory from childhood, or at least a long time ago, and getting indignant or defensive when people suggest that memory is faulty. I need people to understand something crucial to your survival in the modern world:

Memory is not a hard drive. It is an incredibly faulty and unreliable mechanism which you cannot possibly put all of your faith into. No one is attacking your specific memory, this is how it is for everyone. This has been demonstrated scientifically over and over and over again.

On top of that, your brain is designed to fill in gaps to make a cohesive and sensible narrative from the information you do actually take in. This results in a lot of half remembered, half fill-in-the-blanks moments especially from when you were a child.

You need to set your personal feelings about how strong your memory is aside, and come to terms with the fact that it is flawed, changes over time, and creates narratives to make the world make sense to you. This is how it works for everyone, and this is where I believe a majority of these Mandella Effect inconsistencies come from. Not all, but most.