r/MandelaEffect

There are a few Mandela Effects that ring true. The strongest candidates for me are:

\- The Berenstein Bears (versus The Berenstain Bears).

\- The Monopoly mascot wearing a monocle (versus no monocle).

\- Chic-Fil-A (versus Chick-Fil-A).

Which are yours?

Does anyone remember this version, Chik-fil-a? Their food was actually good. I was a vegetarian for 17 years and last year started eating meat again, and had “chick”-fil-a and it tasted like flavorless swill. But “Chik”-fil-a actually was enjoyable.

The Onix / Onyx Mandela effect is messing with my head

Okay so I was reading online about Pokemon Mandela effects and now my brain is annoyed lol.

Obviously everyone knows the Pikachu black tail thing. I also remember that. Like I know people say it was never there, but in my head Pikachu 100% had that black tip on the tail.

But there are other weird ones too. Like Machop having a tail? That feels wrong to me. I remember Machop not having a tail at all.

Then there’s Lotad. Apparently Lotad has six legs?? I always remembered it with four. Like four legs just feels correct in my memory. Six looks so weird to me.

But the one that actually got me the most is Onix.

I swear to God I remember it being spelled Onyx. O-N-Y-X.

When I saw someone say it has always been Onix, my brain just rejected it immediately. Like no, that looks wrong. I played Pokemon Red and Blue a lot as a kid and I very strongly remember Onyx. That spelling is burned into my head.

I know people will say “you’re just thinking of the gemstone onyx” and yeah maybe, but still. The Pokemon itself in my memory was always spelled Onyx. Seeing Onix feels like one of those things where your brain just goes, “nope, that is not the timeline I remember.”

There are a lot of Pokemon Mandela effects, but this one bugs me the most because it feels so obvious to me. Like I can accept misremembering some small sprite detail, but the name spelling? Man, I really remember Onyx.

What the hell is going on?

My most vivid Mandela effect.

Visited Pompeii. Told gf (now wife) about a multi-oscar winning movie named Pompeii, including best picture, may be around 1984-89. Came back and seems there is none. Searched all the movies starting from "Pom". Cant find any.

I vividly remember that this was one of the top oscar winning movies of that year recommended among the top movies you should see (may be among the top 250 Movie list of IMDB). Although i did not know about the Pompeii town story back then and probably, this movie was not exactly based on the volcano eruption. I used to pick up movies from IMDB 250 randomly and started watching it may be 15-20 years ago for the first 30 minutes, found it boring. The poster was of some famous actor like Roberto Benigni or Anthony Hopkins wearing clothes made of hemp or burlap with surrounding of old stone roads/ruins like pompeii. How can i be so sure?

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I think it's interesting, and illustrative, that the "reality changes" are nearly always something trivial or mundane, and never something with a large impact.

So it's logos changing, names of books etc.

It's never a completely different president, or a massive global event not happening.

So no way did he have a silver leg below the knee. I watched this movie literally dozens of times growing up in the 80s and 90s. I mean it’s fucking Star Wars.. I pretty much watched it like once a year..

Without giving too much away, I have managed to be pretty successful in a design-related profession and I have always paid attention to detail.

This just wasn’t a thing. I learned this - on THIS sub - a few months ago, and I mean WHAT THE FUCK!?!? I never post, but this shit is existential. Please someone tell me you remember C-3PO just being all gold?!

Am I in a worse universe now? Seems worse honestly.

My mom, dad, and step dad were all born in the mid/late 70s, I decided to ask all of them about it and this is what they gave me.

Step dad- says him and his sister watched it growing up, either on some sort of channel or had some sort of recording, says he remembers being very little, like 7-10, all he can remember about the movie itself was 2 children in a bedroom at night, and he said something about the wishes, I’m pretty sure it was that they were trying to help their neighbor but I can’t quite remember myself.

Mom- claims to not have saw it herself but definitely saw previews before movies, claims it was on her early teens 10-14

Dad- said he had watched it in movies as a teen, freaked out when I told him it didn’t exist (only one that hadn’t already known it was a Mandela affect) after finding out about Kazam said it was probably that but he coulda sworn he was in high school when he watched it, kazam came out when he was 19.

They all grew up in the same town and went to high school together, all their times don’t quite match up (mom and step dad are same age, dad is 2 years older) both my mom and step dad told me they knew it wasn’t Kazan since that came out much later than they would remember it.

Anyways felt like sharing this, thought it was interesting enough.

I’m 28 years old and when i was in 4th grade i was so good at science, and i remember learning about planets and i remember that the planet that has a ring around it is Uranus!!!!!

I remember it so well and that’s why it was my favorite planet back then because it was “different” and it was the ONLY planet with a ring around it

And i even remember that the teacher asked us to do cardboard cutouts of the solar system AND I MADE URANUS WITH A RING!

And i know it has barely visible rings but in my memory this 🪐 was Uranus, like it’s rings were strong and visible

Fast forward to several years and everybody is saying that Saturn has a ring around it and i am so shocked because i actually remember it being Uranus

Could it actually be a mandela effect?

from the article

"Fruit of the Loom, which markets underwear and socks, is bringing back

characters known as the Fruit Guys, actors in costumes styled after the

fruits spilling out of the cornucopia on the label in each Fruit of the

Loom garment. (I'm not making this up, I swear.) Again, they're known

characters, but in a new setting and delivering a new message."

The other day at work a couple of us were discussing Mandela Effects, mostly Shazam. My older coworker in his 60s had no idea what a Mandela Effect was, so I explained the Nelson Mandela origins.

To follow up, I asked him if he knows Fruit of the Loom and if he used to wear their clothes back in the day. He said yeah.

I asked him if he remembers the logo and he says

"Well you had the fruit here (gestures to left) and the cornucopia here (gestures to upper right)".

How does one explain this???

Has this been settled somehow and I missed it?

Knock off brand? Different timeline?

Are there any ME stories where people wake up in completely different lives? Like they wake up married to someone different or have different homes. If ME is caused by CERN shifting or merging into different realities, why would only small details of people remembering things differently happen? Why not huge things?

I remember years ago when I first watched "Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle" it didn't have curse words but I watched it a second time and now it has cures words. It confused me a lot.

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.

I am not too certain on if anyone’s discussed this or if other people remember this. I remember vividly headlines surrounding Tim Curry dying of AIDS sometime between the 90’s and 2010’s, I don’t exactly remember when it was but I remember all the tabloids having his death listed with pictures and articles surrounding his life’s work.
Mainly the promo pictures from his work in rocky horror at the front of the papers stating he was dead.
I know people may believe I was confused with Freddy mercury or other celebs but it was definitely Tim curry. I sat and rewatched rocky horror a year or two ago with friends who never saw the film, confidently telling them about his struggle and sad passing. Only to discover he was infact still alive and fairly well.

(Apologies to the admins if this falls against the rules, I am autistic and I struggle with not knowing if you mean personal as in personal to a person literally or not)