The Mandela Effect has gone mainstream. Now that the internet is buzzing with wild theories and new examples every day, it's time to go over where the ideas originated, and consider in detail what exactly might be causing it.
SpongeBob SquarePants
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I was a teenage Gary
MMDE: Contains Squidward snail morph scene
Current: Does not contain Squidward snail morph scene
There's an episode from the early days of SpongeBob SquarePants which has been hotly discussed amongst it's fans for years. The title of the episode is "I was a teenage Gary". It's interesting because it fits the exact pattern of a Mandela Effect without them realising that's what it is, because it concerns a scene many of them remember but can't find any references to today apart from those memories.
The scene is where Squidward gets accidentaly injected with a medicine not meant for him, and he turns into a snail. The actual transformation is missing today, but there are many who remember seeing it and instantly wondered, when watching re-runs, why is had been deleted.
Hitchcocks The Birds: Color or Black and White?
- Ian Scott 0 Comments
The whites of their eyes
MMDE: 'The Birds' from 1963 was filmed in black and white
Current: 'The Birds' from 1963 was filmed in color
Here's another Mandela Effect, like The Fly, which is concerned with whether a movie was originally filmed in color or black and white. This time it's Hitchcock's 1963 thriller "The Birds".
Based on the 1952 Daphne Due Marier story of the same name, the movie shows a series of unexplained attacks by birds on a small, ordinary American town over a few days.
Many of the special effects were actually firsts, including a precursor to the green-screen technique used throughout the video and movie industries today.
Candyman
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Say his name how many times?
MMDE: Say 'Candyman' 3 times
Current: Say 'Candyman' 5 times
Candyman was the 1992 movie in which all who saw him were certainly not about to receive a sweet treat.
Written by Clive Barker, from Hellraiser fame, it focuses on an urban legend which describes the summoning of an entity by saying his name a certain number of times in front of a mirror. The Mandela Effect here is that number, because whilst today it shows it was 5, many people are saying they remember it being 3.
Even weirder is that this is shown in the movie to be able to change, because at the end one character says "Helen" 4 times to summon a spirit.
A technical study of the distribution of the Mandela Effect
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Statistics
The process for creating meaningful statistics for the Mandela Effect began with the data collection.
Firstly, a system was put in place to solicit a curated list of the incidents themselves, which were broadened to satisfy the MMDE definition of the Mass Memory Discrepancy Effect, of which the Mandela Effects are part of. The sources came from user submissions, authors' research and similar mechanisms. They were verified, allocated a reference code and documented in the form of a single published article for each reported instance.
Next, a yes/no question was associated with each applicable entry. This was then entered into the online test, making it a candidate to be asked once per test run. All the results were stored, with no user-identifiable data collected. Over 600,000 questions were asked.
What killed the Dodo?
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What made the dodos extinct?
MMDE: Humans ate them
Current: Humans introduced animals which ate their eggs and food
The poor dodo lived for many thousands of years on it's island paradise of Mauritius, where it had no natural predators, which meant being flightless was not a problem. Unfortunately this was it's downfall, because within 100 years of humans settling, it was extinct. The widely agreed date for this extinction is 1681.
The popular idea is that humans ate them, and this myth is so widespread it comes as quite a surprise to many to find out it's meat was terrible to eat, and this wasn't the cause of their extinction. In fact it was down to the pigs, rats and even monkeys which humans introduced to the island which then went and ate the eggs, and competed for food, of the birds.
Multiverse Dating For Beginners
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Cool Mandela Effect short movie
Things are getting a little more sophisticated in the way the mainstream is treating the Mandela Effect. Many times now, it's dropped in, or strong references to it are, with the idea that people will understand it without the usual detailed explanation.
"Multiverse Dating For Beginners" is a cool new Mandela Effect themed short movie from DUST, available on YouTube. It concerns a star-crossed couple who encounter something rather special when meeting for the first time.
Without giving too much away, there's a glitch in the Matrix after the two meet and a "shift" causes the meeting to go in a very unexpected way ... over and over!
It's clear this is influenced by the Mandela Effect - a reference to the Berenstain Bears one is even made directly.
Seal: Kiss from a rose
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Seal: Kiss from a rose
MMDE: "Kissed by a rose on the grave"
Current: "Kissed by a rose on the grey"
Seal's 1994 hit 'Kiss from a rose' was used in the Batman Forever soundtrack.
There's something odd about the lyrics, though.
It mentions in the first line a greying tower, and is full of imagery surrounding color. So the main refrain, which many people are sure is '...kissed by a rose on the grave' is seen today as ''...kissed by a rose on the grey"
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey
