Mandela Effect Crash Course: 100 examples

Top 3 Productions (video); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Wisdom Quarterly

The original Nelson Mandela really did die in prison and had a televised funeral, as evidenced by the fact that a South African text book exists that documents that death. But someone became president to let the perpetrators of apartheid off the hook.

The logo changed. There was no space.

What is the Mandela Effect? It is the strange sociocultural phenomenon that things are askew and have changed slightly when we weren't being mindful. There are two kinds, one where we are misremembering and a stranger one where things really have changed so that physical artifacts have changed in our attics, suggesting timelines, time travel, and a byproduct of new "wave computing."

Two big effects come out of Star Wars.

Things that were certain are no longer certain. What we were 100% sure about can now be demonstrated to have never been that way. They are not as they used to be, no matter what we remember. (But there is lots of evidence that it was the way we remember it, so this is not about a simple "false memory." This is a collective thing where we're all being told we're wrong).

How do they change old maps and new animals?

Of course, they CAN change our mind, our subjective-internal reality. But someone or something seems to be able to change the objective-external world. "That's impossible! we say. But before you say it's "impossible," take this test:

Look how giant Cuba has become.

Now research the answers just so you're sure this is not a game. (NOTE: Avoid using the "default repositories of all knowledge and wisdom" -- Google search and Wikipedia, which are as easy to change and manipulate as ballot marking devices during Democratic nomination processes; their change/edit option is one of the main selling points of crowdsourced sources):

PICK A QUIZ, NOT SOME BUZZFEED BULLCR*P, AND

HAND IT OUT TO CHECK WHAT OTHERS REMEMBER.

There used to be no gap, VW says there was.

The "past" should not change even as everything else careens out of control. But this change is strange because many if not most people still remember how it used to be. People are just misremembering or they never knew the way things actually were.

Since when were there giant bats? No way.

For example, it might have always been "Sex in/and the City," not in, and "Interview with a/the Vampire," not the. Because the English is awkward in each, we may have been saying them incorrectly from the beginning. Of course, that doesn't explain the physical evidence. When we see it the way it is now, it looks strange. It didn't change, we changed?

There are actually two Mandela Effects, and people often confuse them. The first is easy to dismiss: collective misremembering. The second kind of the effect is far stranger, when we know things have changed, like Queen's ending of "We Are the Champions," so you go get your old album and it's changed, too. That should be impossible. We've always been wrong, and everyone is wrong along with us?