Rantin about some of my recent experiences with The Mandela Effect (don’t worry I explain what that is for those out of the loop) and how I’m now 100% certain we either live in a simulation or that the multiverse is real!
The little insignificant memories are easily explained by the way memory works. Our brains assemble memories and reconcile with lots of inputs. Lots of things can affect accuracy: trauma, what you, ahem, ingest and in what quantities, as well, when you BELIEVE your memory to be accurate, you want any evidence to support it and that becomes "proof" regardless of reality. Unless you're me, cuz I absolutely remember things perfectly.
I dunno about Fruit of the Loom but when I was a kid all my Adidas stuff had two stripes instead of 3, and said "Aribas" on it, but I think that's just because it fell off the back of a delivery truck and my Uncle John happened to find it. He was always finding stuff.
My favorite theory that encompasses all of this plus the fact that the last 8ish years have just very much not hit is that when they cranked up the Large Hadron Collider for the first time in the early 2010s (I believe it was in 2014 but may be off by a year or so either way) they tore a hole in space-time and flipped us into an alternate timeline. I’d like to say I think that’s ridiculous but damn if it wouldn’t explain Trump.
I was gonna say exactly this! I saw this a while back and kinda felt a little dumb that I didn’t realize there were multiple companies doing big giveaways and advertising them on tv. I chalk this one up to how I ask for a Kleenex after I sneeze even when it’s a different brand of tissues.
The Berenstain Bears one, as I kid I always just thought that was how they pronounced their name, like how Feinstein and Weinstein are pronounced differently despite being spelled the same. The Kazaam/Shazam one was very real for me. It does blow my mind that the effect is named after Nelson Mandela when that is the most embarrassing one lol. You could not get me to admit I thought that Nelson Mandela died in prison, if you sent me to gitmo.
I do like that theory about it being a side effect of the multiverse, that is fun! I hope all our alternate selves are having a great time debating stuff that actually happened in our timeline! 😵💫
Ed totally did the PCH, all the happy people were SO glad to see him at their door.!! You have piqued my curiosity, Corey, I gotta do some digging!! Lol!
Ed was a spokesperson for American family publishers, a competitor of Publishers’ clearing house. AFP went out of business in the ‘90’s and McMahon died in 2009. It’s what you said. We mix memories up. It’s also an example of marketing and advertising’s hold on the collective consciousness, especially in the 1980’s, when tv advertising was so big.
Sorry, you didn’t say anything about memories, I got mixed up because I read someone else’s comment, and responded to yours. But you get the point. Haha 😆
That’s it. I think we see it the way it was laid out and associate a bunch of fruit with a cornucopia of fruit. It was popular in the second half of the last century for the cornucopia of fake fruit to be a dining room table decor, especially around fall/Thanksgiving. My mom had one for years when I grew up in the ‘70’s-80’s. Fruit of the Loom swears it was never their logo, so I’m sure it never was, we just assumed it was because we associate the bunch of fruit with being in a cornucopia.
Let us not forget the Sinbad genie movie that people claim doesn’t exist also.
Yes, Ed McMahon did do those commercials.
I remember fruit and I *think* I remember the cornucopia.
And yes, I believe in alternate universes. :)
I fully remember the carnicopia and Ed McMahon with the check!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fruit-of-the-loom-cornucopia/
Take a deep breath, go for a run.
The little insignificant memories are easily explained by the way memory works. Our brains assemble memories and reconcile with lots of inputs. Lots of things can affect accuracy: trauma, what you, ahem, ingest and in what quantities, as well, when you BELIEVE your memory to be accurate, you want any evidence to support it and that becomes "proof" regardless of reality. Unless you're me, cuz I absolutely remember things perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJHdFWmuqM
I dunno about Fruit of the Loom but when I was a kid all my Adidas stuff had two stripes instead of 3, and said "Aribas" on it, but I think that's just because it fell off the back of a delivery truck and my Uncle John happened to find it. He was always finding stuff.
My favorite theory that encompasses all of this plus the fact that the last 8ish years have just very much not hit is that when they cranked up the Large Hadron Collider for the first time in the early 2010s (I believe it was in 2014 but may be off by a year or so either way) they tore a hole in space-time and flipped us into an alternate timeline. I’d like to say I think that’s ridiculous but damn if it wouldn’t explain Trump.
You're not crazy, the collective memory is unreliable at best. I'm older than you & remember the things you are talking about
Snopes is on the case https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ed-mcmahon-publishers-clearing-house/ Ed worked for American Family Publishers sweepstakes, competition to Publishers Clearing House. Like who knew there were multiple companies doing that thing back then 😀
I was gonna say exactly this! I saw this a while back and kinda felt a little dumb that I didn’t realize there were multiple companies doing big giveaways and advertising them on tv. I chalk this one up to how I ask for a Kleenex after I sneeze even when it’s a different brand of tissues.
Thank you!
The Berenstain Bears one, as I kid I always just thought that was how they pronounced their name, like how Feinstein and Weinstein are pronounced differently despite being spelled the same. The Kazaam/Shazam one was very real for me. It does blow my mind that the effect is named after Nelson Mandela when that is the most embarrassing one lol. You could not get me to admit I thought that Nelson Mandela died in prison, if you sent me to gitmo.
I do like that theory about it being a side effect of the multiverse, that is fun! I hope all our alternate selves are having a great time debating stuff that actually happened in our timeline! 😵💫
Ed totally did the PCH, all the happy people were SO glad to see him at their door.!! You have piqued my curiosity, Corey, I gotta do some digging!! Lol!
Even my mom confirmed, it was publisher not American!!!
Just to confirm .. Mandela did not die in prison, right? (I thought he was freed after apartheid?) 😃😃
He was freed and lived on. He’s deceased now.
Thank you, i thought so! It figures that the person that the Mandela Effect is named after is THE one I knew! Lol!
Thank you! Such an amazing man
Ed was a spokesperson for American family publishers, a competitor of Publishers’ clearing house. AFP went out of business in the ‘90’s and McMahon died in 2009. It’s what you said. We mix memories up. It’s also an example of marketing and advertising’s hold on the collective consciousness, especially in the 1980’s, when tv advertising was so big.
Sorry, you didn’t say anything about memories, I got mixed up because I read someone else’s comment, and responded to yours. But you get the point. Haha 😆
That’s it. I think we see it the way it was laid out and associate a bunch of fruit with a cornucopia of fruit. It was popular in the second half of the last century for the cornucopia of fake fruit to be a dining room table decor, especially around fall/Thanksgiving. My mom had one for years when I grew up in the ‘70’s-80’s. Fruit of the Loom swears it was never their logo, so I’m sure it never was, we just assumed it was because we associate the bunch of fruit with being in a cornucopia.
Ben I love you for this and we should talk about it more lol
OMG glad I was already high!