r/Retconned

There has been an increase in rule violations within this Reddit community.

Please take the time to read the rules before participating.

There will be no name-calling, trolling, political arguments, libel, slander, or dismissing another person’s memory or experience. You are not them, and you do not have the authority to define what they experienced.

Do not correct another person’s memory as though your version is the final authority. You may say that you remember something differently, but your memory does not invalidate theirs.

Do not accuse others of confabulation simply because their recollection differs from your own. Confabulation refers to unintentionally combining or mixing details from different events. It should not be used as a weapon to dismiss someone.

Disagreement is allowed, but telling someone they are simply wrong is not constructive. Present what you know from your own perspective, provide evidence where possible, and explain why you believe something to be true.

Downvoting should not be used as punishment for a differing experience or interpretation.

Over the last two weeks, there have been far too many violations of these standards. This community is not a physical reductionist forum, and it will not be moderated as one.

Respect the purpose of the space, respect one another, and follow the rules.

The HAMMERS are out. We see the violations and act appropriately; there will be no questioning the Admin or Moderators' judgment. We have too many members to take into consideration your 'special' treatment. Mistakes happen, but they happened because a violation was made, no matter how harmless you may have thought it was.

I was watching a drama and there is this actress that is thin but I remembered watching an earlier drama of hers and she was more plump and shapely so I always commented that she lost weight while watching her drama. After that, I for curiosity sake went to watch the older drama and to my surprise she doesn't look much fatter.

Prerogative is a word that sounds similar but has a completely different definition than Perogative and was reported as a misspelling in an earlier thread on this sub.

Prerogative means privilege or right or entitlement.

Perogative pronounced Purr-ogative is almost the complete opposite of that definition. A perogative was a duty, a responsibility, and intrinsic obligation. Something that you had to do. It doesn't mean privilege. It was akin to having to clean up after yourself. That was your perogative. You have to go to work. Go to school. Pay your taxes. Those are perogatives.

It was very much the opposite of "Pre"-rogative. Prerogatives are you entitlements and rights. Perogatives are your obligations and duties.

Perogative is not a misspelling of Prerogative. Perogative is a word that no longer exists. This has me shook to the core.

When the Large Hadron Collider was turned on in 2007 I remember a roommate being disturbed by it because there was pushback on the unknown dangers of the accelerator. I can't recall the details but I remember him saying that scientists were theorizing it had some chance to destroy existence or have some catastrophic unknown effect. He said something specific it's just been a long time..

I recall some concern about this potentially dangerous thing we had no say over which was about to be turned on, but then months and years went by with no incident. I just assumed "oh, its not a big deal actually."

But if quantum immortality is a thing, perhaps thats why the timeline has gotten weird? Maybe CERN has wiped out human existence in many timelines, or had some catastrophic effect. Perhaps those of us here were in one such timeline and had to scramble off, were thrown into a weird ass timeline. Or maybe it works in some other way.

Everything started getting weirder around that time though. Can't remember people having hope like they used to past 2013 or so.

Okay, I am a bit freaked about this.

For context I work at a prominent music venue. Tonight, I was working the orchestra show, and one of the composers they were covering was Hans Zimmerman. My coworker and I were just chatting about how much we love Hans Zimmerman, and the different movies he has done scores for while helping customers. We are both very familiar with his compositions.

Shortly after this conversation I see a man walk up, and he is wearing a shirt that says "Hans Zimmer" (simply writing that name out gives me goosebumps, ugh). I turn to my coworker confused and I ask him "Did you see that guys shirt? It said Hans Zimmer. Have I been saying his name wrong?!". My coworker looks at me confused and says "no, It's Hans Zimmerman for sure". I remember the look on his face appearing alarmed in a strange way. I look up Hans Zimmerman on google, and sure enough it corrects to Hans Zimmer, and pulls up his info. I wanted to scream, and I showed my coworker. His face dropped in shock, and he says "noo no, it is absolutely Hans Zimmerman. In fact, I remember people debating about it online as to whether it was Zimmerman or Zimmernann with two n's."

We continue to search, and gave up after we were certain his name is Zimmer. We were just about losing our cool. We asked a few different coworkers, and they were also very confused and swear his name is Hans Zimmerman.

As a side note, earlier in the day as I was working the first part of my double shift out on the plaza, I heard them doing sound check. I knew immediately it was Hans Zimmerman, and looked up the event schedule to see the details. I saw it written out "Hans Zimmerman" and got excited about working that show this evening. I am so absolutely confused and shocked. It feels like I witnessed an instantaneous shift right before my eyes?! What is happening? And is anyone else experiencing this?

Sandbox philosopher YouTube commentator Avery Yapps discusses the intergenerational phenomenon of the Zoomer Gaze. This video attempts to do more than just explain what the Gen Z stare is but rather extend the conversation about Gen Z habits and social functions in such a way as to demystify any miscommunications that might get lost in translation from the popular TikTok jokes about antisocial zoomers to out of touch older Millennials and boomers who might seek to put down the younger generation at any turn. This video essay takes an armchair objective look at the sociology behind the social dynamics of zoomers.

I’m sure I can remember England reaching the final in the mid 00s but now apparently they haven’t reached a final since 1966

Reposting this here for your consideration:

Overview: I can't believe nobody else noticed that both dreams and early AI images glitched out at fingertips and rendering text. Not only this but the first generated videos had EXACTLY the same kind of "sheen". The implications are that either we go there when dreaming or that is emulating the same type of consciousness. Seen from this lens things like Mandela and other "blips" make way more sense as we may literally be inside somebodies mind who is dreaming and our own nightly sojourns are fractal echoes? Either that or its a hologram/simulation but certainly not "really real". Whatever that means...

Read the article and LMK what you think. Am I reaching or onto something?

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It's slow, so I thought I'd share this video with Clif High from July 19th, 2026. I have found his work to be helpful in dealing with the ontological shock from Mandela Effects, and hope this helps others. I don't know if he speaks of them directly in this video (less than half-way through) but he does talk a lot about reality, our perception of it, and the sort of on-going war we're unwittingly apart of. It's a long video and a great thing to have on in the background as you cook, etc.

I just got the chills thinking about this.

On TikTok after the Cern shutdown, a lot of people are reporting that they noticed many Mandela Effects flip flopping (e.g., Froot Loops, Chick Fil A, and the Mona Lisa).

They're also discussing Mandela Effects like the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia and Dolly having braces.

These are Mandela Effects that we've all been discussing for years on Reddit and other online spaces.

What really trips me out is how so many people are acting like these are all new.

It makes me wonder if the timelines are now merging, and many people are now on the same page as those of us who have been noticing these for years.

What are your thoughts?

It is common knowledge that cinema had alluded to the Twin Towers—and the disasters that might befall them—years before September 11. However, in the current timeline, these references are incredibly frequent; they are so numerous that dismissing them as mere coincidence is impossible. For instance, the date 9/11 is symbolized multiple times in the film *Back to the Future*. Another example is "The Lone Gunmen", a spin-off of "The X-Files". An episode aired on March 4, 2001, depicts a plot in which the government orchestrates a conspiracy to crash a plane into the World Trade Center towers as a pretext to launch a war in the Middle East.

There is also another matter—one I have only recently noticed as a non-American—which is that a bombing took place in the parking garage of the World Trade Center's North Tower back in 1993.

Despite the massive explosion that created a deep crater, the 1993 bombing failed to bring down the tower. The primary objective of the plotters was to cause the North Tower to collapse into the South Tower. People rarely discuss this event, as it has been overshadowed by the September 11 attacks.

After joining this sub it's now impossible to not notice the subtle changes every day...

I’ve started this Koalition because I’ve reached a point where I can't ignore the feeling that something isn't quite right. Whether it's the official narratives about space, history, or how things are presented to us, I’ve found that a lot of the time, the math and the reality simply don't add up.

I’m here to talk about the stuff that doesn't fit the script. I want to look at the anomalies and the questions that people usually ignore.

This is a space for us to be true, to speak our minds, and to analyze the data ourselves. If you’ve ever looked at something and thought, "That doesn't look right," then you’re in the right place.

What’s something you’ve seen recently that felt wrong to you? Let’s talk about it.