Mandela effects and personal Mandela effects thread - Bernstein/Bernstain, Pikachu Tail, Mandela, now we got those out of the way.
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The chick who played Karen Page in Daredevil.
I always thought her name was Deborah Ann Wolf. I swear I saw it written that way, I heard people say it that way, I said it that way.
Then like a few weeks ago, a podcast she was on was promoted to me and it said her name was Debra Ann Woll
And apparently it's that way everywhere I look now.
I always thought her name was Deborah Ann Wolf. I swear I saw it written that way, I heard people say it that way, I said it that way.
Then like a few weeks ago, a podcast she was on was promoted to me and it said her name was Debra Ann Woll
And apparently it's that way everywhere I look now.
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At no point is the very first boss in Super Mario 64 called "King Bob-omb."
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This arcade game where you smack plastic alligators with a foam mallet.
There was one of these in a boardwalk arcade one year when my family was on vacation. The game would start with the line “I’m gonna get you!”, the alligators would go “ow” when you hit them, and then after about a minute, the game would go “Now I’m REALLY mad!” and the gators would get faster. I distinctly remember this last line because we all thought it was funny and it became kind of a joke with us for a while.
Except for some reason, I can’t find a single recording of it. Every video of these things on YouTube says “Now I’m ANGRY!” instead. The other two lines are exactly the same, same voice and everything, and it doesn’t seem to matter what version of the cabinet it is. The only reference to the “REALLY mad” line I can seem to find is the title of a post on r/nostalgia from two years ago.
There was one of these in a boardwalk arcade one year when my family was on vacation. The game would start with the line “I’m gonna get you!”, the alligators would go “ow” when you hit them, and then after about a minute, the game would go “Now I’m REALLY mad!” and the gators would get faster. I distinctly remember this last line because we all thought it was funny and it became kind of a joke with us for a while.
Except for some reason, I can’t find a single recording of it. Every video of these things on YouTube says “Now I’m ANGRY!” instead. The other two lines are exactly the same, same voice and everything, and it doesn’t seem to matter what version of the cabinet it is. The only reference to the “REALLY mad” line I can seem to find is the title of a post on r/nostalgia from two years ago.
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Evel Knievel died when his jump over the grand canyon failed.
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He's called King bob-omb and Bomb king in literally everything else, it's one of those weird cases like Ewoks where the name isn't said at any point in the actual thing they first show up in but everybody knows due to promo material and stuff that came later.
It might be one of those "running variant" things cause I remember the fucking game saying both depending on where I played the thing. I don't know if this is a true mandela thing or just another case of shit getting harder to find evidence of the existence of due to a mix of time and the Internet getting more corporate and based on shitty ad algorithms, I'm personally leaning towards the latter here with how I literally cannot find any evidence of some specific old popular forum/imageboard memes that fucking reddit and knowyourmeme didn't latch onto due to them dying a peaceful death before the time window of getting scooped up and being too offensive for the mainstream corporations to turn into an ad hook. I DID find one reference to one or two of them on an old abandoned wikia(now fandom) insulting some specific users of a Mario fan forum in the 2000s that was somehow still up after all these fucking years so I know for certain it's not me getting mandela'd there. I wish I had evidence of basic shit like the gator whack a mole game and some other things I know for a fact were real but I can find no more info on.
This came out way too rambly, but I have lots of pent up feelings about this type of shit. On top of the actual weird mandela shit, there's also now this "fake mandela effect" stuff going on with stuff that actually was a thing even without the weird potential timeline splinter/rewrite shit going on, and the lines get fucking muddier the harder becomes to find basic fucking info online anymore.
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I played that game too, and I remember it saying both phrases at different times before it sped up. Maybe it sped up twice, or could be set to have more stages?
My example: I was taught to spell it "bandana" but it turns out that's been a variant spelling all along. The primary spelling is "bandanna," and seeing red squiggles under the former made my worldview lurch to one side.
Also it's derived from Sanskrit and not at all Spanish. Now that I type this out, this might just be trivia and not Mandala Effect, but by the power of autism I swear I have never encountered the "bandanna" spelling until recently unless it was a typo. OR SO I THOUGHT.
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I wanna sperg about how people actually remember things wrong and why that means the madela effect happens.
When it comes to memory about things. You do t remember something wrong on purpose. On the outset that's sounds obvious. But in practice you overlook that msrketing does this to help you remember but marketing isn't your whole mentality. Spelling a word like febreze with two E's is an error and your brain will not try to remember it over the correct spelling and confuse the two bevausd you don't see it very often so it fades as time goes on.
You go to remember the advertisement and you suddenly remember the proper spelling instead because that's what you deal with more often than an advertisement campaign.
This isn't all cases but this I think I'd the fundamental reason why this happens.
When it comes to memory about things. You do t remember something wrong on purpose. On the outset that's sounds obvious. But in practice you overlook that msrketing does this to help you remember but marketing isn't your whole mentality. Spelling a word like febreze with two E's is an error and your brain will not try to remember it over the correct spelling and confuse the two bevausd you don't see it very often so it fades as time goes on.
You go to remember the advertisement and you suddenly remember the proper spelling instead because that's what you deal with more often than an advertisement campaign.
This isn't all cases but this I think I'd the fundamental reason why this happens.
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I'd agree with this except my wife never had or seen any of the berenstain books until she was an adult after moving here around 2007. She remembers them being spelled as Berenstein. She distinctly remembers seeing them the first time and wondering why there was a bunch of books about Jewish bears.
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That's probably exactly what it is, she remembers the Jewish spelling which is proper over the intentional misspelled way the books are.
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Kirk never said “Beam me up, Scotty” closest he got was “Scotty, beam me up”
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This one has been driving me crazy for years so I'm hoping that some powerful autist on Kiwi Farms can finally help me figure out if this something minor that seemingly everyone else has forgotten about or if I'm just nuts.
In the video game Twisted Metal 2, there is a secret stage that is the Suicide Swamp map from Jet Moto, another game developed by SingleTrac
I am fucking positive that in addition to the code listed on that page, you could access that stage by swapping out the Twisted Metal 2 disc from your PS1 and putting in Jet Moto at the proper time (I think it was while the stage was loading or thereabouts). I remember this because I didn't have Jet Moto but a friend of mine did, so he had to bring that game to my place to make the trick work.
I have looked all over the place and can't find anyone mentioning this. Disc swapping on those old playstation games to unlock stuff definitely was a thing though, Twisted Metal's main competitor even did it.
In the video game Twisted Metal 2, there is a secret stage that is the Suicide Swamp map from Jet Moto, another game developed by SingleTrac
I am fucking positive that in addition to the code listed on that page, you could access that stage by swapping out the Twisted Metal 2 disc from your PS1 and putting in Jet Moto at the proper time (I think it was while the stage was loading or thereabouts). I remember this because I didn't have Jet Moto but a friend of mine did, so he had to bring that game to my place to make the trick work.
I have looked all over the place and can't find anyone mentioning this. Disc swapping on those old playstation games to unlock stuff definitely was a thing though, Twisted Metal's main competitor even did it.
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I hate that the Mandela Effect is named after people being convinced Mandela died while he was in prison, since you would have to be retarded to have ever thought he was dead during that time since it was a major national news story on a regular basis that he was in fact still in prison. It was also a major international news story when he finally got out and it was a major international news story when he became the leader of South Africa after getting out of prison.
Berenstein/stain at least makes since people would just fill in the more likely spelling in their heads, but the Mandela one is dumb.
Berenstein/stain at least makes since people would just fill in the more likely spelling in their heads, but the Mandela one is dumb.
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About the Mandela one - people just got their niggers confused. There was a well-known Black Nationalist, Steve Biko, who died in prison in apartheid South Africa, and a film Cry Freedom was made about it, and was the role that got Denzel Washington his first Oscar nomination. Remember that Nelson Mandela appeared briefly at the end of the film Malcolm X after he was released.
These people probably don't have enough space in their brain to keep two Xhosa Black Nationalists in Denzel Washington movies separate, so they have coalesced them into one person, even though this results in the inconsistency that "Nelson Mandela" was both the first black president of South Africa and died in prison.
It's not unlike how the older generation thinks every black comedian is Eddie Murphy.
These people probably don't have enough space in their brain to keep two Xhosa Black Nationalists in Denzel Washington movies separate, so they have coalesced them into one person, even though this results in the inconsistency that "Nelson Mandela" was both the first black president of South Africa and died in prison.
It's not unlike how the older generation thinks every black comedian is Eddie Murphy.
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I have a weird one where I remember it spelled "Stein" but it always being pronounced "Stain", and thinking it was weird even as a kid that it wasn't pronounced "Stein" because of how R.L. Steins name from Goosebumps was pronounced.
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I agree with everything else you said in your comment, except this part. I've never witnessed this. If an old person was going to confuse every black comedian with one famous black comedian, it would be Richard Pryor.
Pryor is an older and a much more famous comedian compared to Murphy. And Eddie Murphy eventually became more well known from his movies than his stand up career.
My friends had pretty much every one of those books when we were kids, and I always remembered it being spelled "Berenstain". We would pronounce it Berensteen rather than Berenstain or Berenstein.
R.L. Stein is actually spelled R.L. Stine.
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Growing up in deep south I recall all of pronouncing it 'burn-n-steeen' bears but I never cared to actually look at the spelling, ha