Nate
The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. Sinbad’s Shazaam is one of the most popular examples of the Mandela Effect. People have been debating the existence of “Shazaam” that apparently never existed. If it never existed then how com4e I saw it when I was a kid? I swear I saw it.
Mandela Effect blows my mind, and I had no idea there were this many examples. The Mandela effect is real and it’s messing with these folks.
1. Monopoly Guy Monocle
“The monopoly guy not having a monocle.”
2. Fruit Of The Loom Cornucopia
“I was a kid in the ’70s and ’80s, and the only underwear and T-Shirts my mom would buy me was Fruit of the Loom. I have that logo burned into my head. Then, in 2015 I discover the logo supposedly never existed. It’s like GTFO of here with that shit.”
3. Favorite Shirt
“I don’t know if it counts, but I had a favorite orange t-shirt and I haven’t seen it in years. Asked my mom if she knows anything about it and described the drawings on it. She went “You mean the turquoise one? It’s in x drawer” I fought her a while about it and finally went to check the said drawer and there it was, my favorite “orange” shirt in all its turquoise glory”
4. Pikachu
“Pikachu’s tail having a black end
Pikachu doesn’t have that”
5. Shaggy’s Adam’s Apple
“The fact that shaggy doesn’t have a protruding Adam’s apple”
6. Kit Kat
“Apparently Kit Kat has no hyphen”
7. Shapeshifting Rock
“The one that always gets me in particular to my friends and me from when we were kids. There was a creek that ran under the street in the neighborhood and we would sometimes hang out in the banks on either side of the road. There was this big rock that we would sit on all the time. Except for one day we were walking by and it wasn’t a rock. It was a small tree. Fully rooted in and established the rock was nowhere to be seen. Mind you, it was an extremely heavy boulder. We passed that spot all the time and all of us remember that rock. We call it the shapeshifting rock.”
8. Lighthouse
“This one is a bit more personal to me, but growing up my mom and I always made an effort to go to the beach every Friday afternoon.
When it got too dark to be in the water, we would make our way to the park that was right next to the beach.
On some Fridays, we would just chill on one of the slides and look at the stars. One day I saw this light spinning around and I remember asking my mom what it was.
She told me that it was a lighthouse and that it’s used at night to stop ships from crashing into the shore.
I remember this vividly because it was kind of like my gateway into hyper-fixating on sunken and shipwrecked ships.
Years later, over a decade (so this was probably in the mid to late 2000s), I got back into lighthouses. I go online to see if this lighthouse that I saw was still in commission, and I can’t find any traces of it.
So I ask my mom, and apparently, this conversation we had never took place according to her. I insist, and finally, she’s like “idk babes, I probably forgot”
So I go looking deeper, and apparently, there was never a lighthouse where I thought it was.
To this day it f**ks me up because I KNOW what I saw, I KNOW what we talked about.”
9. Febreze
“It’s spelled Febreze, not Febreeze”
10. Beats By Dr. Dre
“Beats by Dr. Dre. I’m almost positive that it was ‘Beats by Dre.’ But I went and found my old headphones and sure enough, it says “Dr.” It’s even weirder because it looks so wrong and crowded on the headband.”
11. C-3PO
“C-3PO has one silver leg. Every costume gets this wrong.”
12. Jane Goodall
“My friend TRULY believes to his core, that Jane Goodall passed away 15-20 years ago”
13. Curious George
“Curious George ain’t got no tail”
14. Raisin Bran
“I really thought the Raisin Bran sun wore sunglasses. Nope.”
15. Sinbad Shazam
“My mom doesn’t have the best memory. I called her when I found out about this one and go, “Do you remember that movie when Sinbad was a genie?” Without missing a beat she goes, “Yeah Shazam, right? You guys watched that all the time.” I said, “you’re not confusing it with kazaam with Shaq right?” She says “No you guys didn’t like that one as much you liked the Sinbad one better.” She was mind blown that it doesn’t exist. I think she even looked through our VHS collection cause she’s was like we definitely have that movie but she never found it. Shame.”
16. Mickey Mouse
“I swear to f**king god mickey mouse had suspenders”
17. The Berenstain Bears
“For me, it will ALWAYS be Berenstein bears. My mom and I felt like our whole lives were a lie when we looked back at the books one day and saw BerenSTAIN bears. The f**k?”
18. Looney Tunes
“Looney Tunes not Looney Toons. I was convinced it was Toons, as in cartoons.”
19. Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA Album Cover
“On Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA album cover, there’s a red hat in his back pocket, not a bandana.”
20. Froot Loops
“‘Froot loops’ became ‘fruit loops’ then ‘froot loops’ again”
21. The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ always thought it was Portrait”
22. SpongeBob Guitar
“I remember SpongeBob holding a V-shaped purple guitar now it’s a peanut?”
23. Britney Spears’ Headset
“Britney Spears, ‘Oops I Did it Again’ she isn’t wearing a headset. Toys and costumes with the red outfit always have a headset.
In the video, you can clearly see her adjusting a headset that doesn’t exist.
Or in ‘Baby One More Time’ she was wearing a plaid skirt… I guess it’s solid black??”
24. Reddi Wip
“Reddi Wip
I swear to god there was an H in the wip…”
25. Tom Cruise Sun Glasses
“Tom Cruise dancing in Risky Business.
I’d have sworn he was wearing a white shirt and black Ray-Bans.”
26. Walkers Crisps Salt And Vinegar
“Walkers crisps where the salt and vinegar were blue and cheese and onion were green. I vividly remember it and can’t believe that it wasn’t like that”
27. Agatha Christie
“That when Agatha Christie disappeared mysteriously for several days, she was never seen again and presumed deceased.
Legit had an argument with a friend over this before I figured out what was going on”
28. Objects In Mirror, May Be Closer Than They Appear
“The ‘objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear’ one still bugs me.”
29. Hiking Emoji
“How come no one is talking about the hiking emoji?? I vividly remember there was and hiking emoji where a guy/girl is climbing a rock with a stick on hand, seems like we never had one”
30. Stove Top Stuffing
“Stouffer’s stovetop stuffing has apparently never existed.”
h/t: BoredPanda