The Mandela Effect

The Mandela Effect has grown very popular through 2016-2018; Social media influencers with large followings started talking about their favorites, causing a wave of Mandela effects to be pointed out by viewers of their content (including many teens). On Twitter, pages dedicated to posting new mandela effects and talking about them can be found everywhere. Many accounts post threads with titles like “Bizarre Examples of the Mandela Effect | A Weird Thread,” posted by @aesthetiicmilk, on twitter.

What are mandela effects?

The mandela effect is the phenomenon in which a large group and/or population of people remember something differently than it what it actually is. This most commonly includes having the memory of things that never happened, and remembering popular sayings, lyrics, logos and characters differently.

The term ‘mandela effect’ was named after Nelson Mandela; hundreds of thousands of people (maybe more) had questioned their memory when it was announced that Nelson Mandela died on December 5th, 2013. These people recalled Nelson Mandela dying in prison in 1991. This is the most widespread mandela effect, and the beginning of a huge conspiracy theory.

Mandela effects:

One of the most widespread mandela effects is the over the name of a book series/tv series, Berenst_in Bears. Does an E or A belong before the i? Many people can clearly recall the name spelled as “Berenstein,” but the name is actually “Berenstain.” The A was always there.
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall: Who’s the fairest of them all?” The famous quote from the Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is most commonly remembered including the phrase “Mirror, mirror,” but were these really the words from the stepmother? Surprisingly, no; the famous quote is actually “Magic mirror, on the wall…”
Another quote from a movie, Star Wars. “Luke, I am your father,” is branded everywhere; shirts, backpacks, cups, movie posters, and more, have this famous quote printed on it. But nowhere in this movie includes that quote. The quote featured is “No, I am your father.” Clips from this movie can be seen saying “No,” and never “Luke.”
Singing along to “We Are the Champions,” by Queen, you (or your parents) probably recall singing the iconic “Of the World!” at the end of the song. “We are the champions…. Of the world!” was the lyric. But it was never a lyric. At the end of this song, it ends with we are the champions; never does it say “of the world” after the final chorus.
Many brands and names are often misspelled. For example, “Febreeze” was always “Febreze.” The popular “Oscar Meyer” brand is “Oscar Mayer.” Chic-fil-a was an amazing restaurant, but is that how it is spelled? Actually, its spelled Chick-fil-a, despite everyone remembering that they used to have to remind themselves that there is no ‘k’ in the name of this restaurant.
If you have an iPhone and use facetime, this one may blow your mind. Do you remember that when receiving a facetime call, the phrase “would like to facetime,” is under the caller’s name/number. Well that isn’t the exact sentence. “Would like facetime,” is what is actually said under the caller ID.
Two popular TV show titles are large mandela effects. The first is Looney T___s. Make your guess: Looney “Toons” or Looney “Tunes…” If you said the spelling is “Toons,” you were incorrect. The show has always been called “Looney Tunes.”
The second TV show is of Sex ___ the city. Do you remember it as “Sex in the City” or “Sex and the City?” Many people have always remembered this show as being “Sex in the City,” but it never was. But there are pieces of evidence that people have retrieved to “prove” that it once was Sex in the City.

Explanations Behind the Mandela Effect:

There are theories behind this phenomenon, many which are far fetched. Some people believe that everytime a new group of mandela effects pop up, the world has switched into an alternate universe, where these things have changed. For instance, we flipped into an alternate reality where “would like to facetime,” is “would like facetime.”

This relates to the theory that when a group of mandela effects pops up, this is the start of a new world where the old one left off. Basically, this signals that the world just ended (like in Y2k, the April 2018 rapture, etc.) and a nearly identical one was created.

Both of these theories are often combined, saying that when the world ended, all the life was transferred into another dimension, onto another world. The pattern being that anytime the world is changed, the mandela effects appear. Signaling a change in the timeline of the world.

This leads into the theory of time travel. The basic rule being that if someone were to time travel and change the past, this would affect things in the future. We notice the change when it actually happens, but there is no proof that it happens due to the fact that the past was altered too. There isn’t much to connect time travel and the mandela effect, but it just makes sense.