The "Mandela Effect" is DUMB 

To be fair, everything has a subreddit.

"Just don't want to admit they mixed up two black guys" Jeez you killed them

A personal example of how bad human observation can be: Some years ago I've had a serious car crash. A few hours later I started speculating with others what colour the car that hit us was. My dad (the driver) said it was black, his friend (middle seat) called it gray and I (back seat) remembered it as white. In reality, it was red.

I always thought the Mandela Effect was just the name of the phenomenon where you vividly remember the wrong thing...people will seriously believe anything except the fact that they're wrong

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the space-time continuum that is wrong."

As a South African, my simple explanation for the O.G. Mandela effect is that people confuse Mandela with Steve Biko, a South African freedom fighter who had died in prison (he was murdered, despite the authorities denying the fact). Just another case of confusing two Black dudes. For somebody to think that the Victoria Falls is from a parallel universe, is the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. BTW, I only today discovered the Charlie Brown Christmas album, although RU-vidrs say that it was part of everybody's childhood. Must have been been the Mandela effect. 😉

You know people used to be able to have humility and admit when they were wrong in my other universe.

I think the Mandela Effect in what it meant has been hijacked a bit by the conspiracy theories, it used to just be about "hey isn't it weird that we all misremembered this one specific detail"

Well I guess I've misunderstood the Mandela effect. I always thought it was an occurence due to the spread of misquotations and unmitigated false information being spread especially throughout the internet. Never even heard of this alternate universe theory absurdity.

I thought the Mandela effect was literally just another way to say bad memory.

This is like when your friend sings the lyrics to a song wrong and you correct them. Imagine them saying “In my original timeline it’s sung like this”. You would probably try to find a new friend

This reminds me of the Slenderman meme, everyone understood it to be a meme and playing dumb about its fakeness was part of the experience. The problem is when young people come into the meme after it’s infancy stage, they’re not aware of it’s humble photoshop contest beginnings, and people pretending it’s always existed and is real is no longer an understood, yet unspoken rule. It’s now a fully-fledged ghost story. If no one admits to newbies that it’s just a meme, how are they to know otherwise, and they start to take it too seriously, and end up murdering a classmate because otherwise slenderman will get them.

In my universe, Czechoslovakia used to be a single country and so was Yugoslavia, Germany was split in two, and South Sudan didn't exist. Oh, and there was a thing called United Arab Republic. Mandela effect confirmed.

I thought you already posted this video.... huh?

Elaborating on the Berenstain/Berenstein Bears thing, there actually are a few book spines and VHS tapes that were accidentally labeled Berenstein Bears and not Berenstain Bears, presumably because the people involved in production actually got confused about the spelling too.

I've always been fascinated by the Mandela Effect as an example of the both the limits of human memory and a sort of mass hysteria. I had no idea that people went to such lengths to try and suggest that it's not humanity's fault.

It’s pure ego. No I can’t be wrong it’s the universe that’s wrong!!

When we can't remember things clearly, our brains will often fill in the gap with something very similar. Not to mention that the media can often perpetuate misconceptions of something, leading to many having the same mismemory

I told someone this on a Facebook group once and they acted like I was the worst person alive

With the "does the Monopoly Man have a monocle or not?" thing, people who thought he does are probably merging him in their heads with "Mr. Peanut", who also has a top hat and a cane, but is the only one of the two with a monocle.

Hannibal Lecter did say "Hello Clarice" but it was in the movie "Hannibal" not "Silence of the lambs"

Wait. Coca-Cola WASN’T blue?

We live in an age in society where bad memory has become a conspiracy theory

I’m a psychologist and the Mandela effect IS definitely a thing people have been studying for a while. It’s just not the alternate dimensions bs you find on crackpot RU-vid channels. It’s usually discussed in the context of how our brains encode and recall memories in a “leaky” way, that is much more affected by context, or our prior knowledge, or random stuff than we normally think.

Cop: Sir you've been accused of murder Me: This timeline is so weird xDDDDD

Do yall remember the war with Eastasia? Or was it Eurasia? I am always getting those mixed up.

The Mandela Effect is borne out of a generation that has never not had access to complete information discovering, much to their dismay, that human memory is very fallible and malleable and then also discovering that as you age your memory gets worse. Rather that accepting that they remembered the wrong thing, they make up a ridiculous theory. Yes human memory sucks, yes your memory gets worse as you age.

"is it me, or is water much wetter than it used to be?" no you just don't wash your hands

JJ: The Mandela Effect doesn’t exist, it’s just bad memory Mandela Effector: Well I guess that means the Mandela Effect exists in my Universe...

The Berenstain Bears one always annoyed me to no end. Even as a kid, I distinctly remember everyone calling them "Berenstein" but I would read the title on all the books which clearly had the 'a'. I even remember asking my 3rd grade teacher "Why is Berenstein spelled like Berenstain?" For a long time, I'd just chalked it up to not fully understanding how to read cursive. They also never pronounced it like Einstein from what I recall, but rather "Bear-en-STEEN" which added even more emphasis on the e and made it that much more perplexing. And yes, I know it's misspelled "Berenstein" for the animated videos, but that's obviously not what I'm talking about here. Everybody read the book specifically as "Berenstein".

My assumption with the Barenstain Bears is that the pronunciation played a big key role. I very specifically remember everyone pronouncing the name as "Steen" growing up. Which, as an adult who has met people with such lastname pronunciations, would assume it was spelled "Stein." Which i believe this is a common Americanized mispronunciation of said last name. If someone just isn't pronouncing it correctly for the kids, we'll just think it's spelled the way it's pronounced.

I was only interested in it in regard to how large groups of people remember things incorrectly in the same way, I didn’t know people were tying all this magic nonsense to it

My whole family thinks he died in prison, including me, many years ago, And I don't think it's something involving time travel, it's just because nobody in my family cares about Mandela...

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you" Neil DeGrasse Tyson

In order for it to even be the Mandella Effect a large group of people must remember it the same exact way. It seems a lot of people don't even understand what it is. They think it's just if THEY remember something wrong. Some of the examples of the phenomenon are dumb I agree.

The Mandela effect was briefly interesting when it was first introduced, and I myself was questioning my reality for a moment but I realized most was due to my memory. Our brains are very complex and memory details do change over time. Your video perfectly explains my realization of why I Don’t subscribe to the Mandela effect

This guy is from a dimension where "o" in a word with "ou" is ignored and therefore words are pronounced as "abut" and "arund"

I didn't know it was that deep... I thought mandela effect was another weird psychological phenomenon like deja vu... I didn't know people thought it was about parallel universes. That's taking it a bit too far imo 🤣

"I could not be wrong.....The universe, YES, the UNIVERSE must be wrong!"

I am an avid language learner. Through my learning I've learned the brain is GREAT at recognizing and learning patterns, but not details. Think about how we can read stuff with typos and not even notice the typos. Our brain loves to gloss over stuff under the assumption that it understands fully without taking any effort to pinpoint details. It's natural and easier that way. You may think Cheeze-It is called CHEEZ-ITZ (even now idk how it's spelled lol), but that's because we call them cheese its verbally, and you have read the logo, saw that it had a z or two and just filled the details in your mind.

Well, the feeling of discovering you’ve had a false memory for quite a while is very real, just not the whole parallel universe thing

One of my favorite moments of this phenomenon is with the “Evil Farming Game” memory that a guy on Reddit had, which turned out to be a false memory his brain made up while half asleep with a livestream on in the background.

I died when he read “Is water wetter than it used to be?” 💀💀💀

I did a panel on this at a Comic Con. If it were real, there would be a set of people from Earth 1 and another set from Earth 2. But after a poll, it looked like people's memory were all across the board and there was no two sets of people with distinct sets of memories.

Dude I've been on YT since ages but somehow only today I discover this channel? You must have not existed in my universe

"is water wetter than it used to be?" XD LOL ahahahhaha

Wait, people are serious about the Mandela Effect being alternate universe? I always thought it was just a way to say "I misremembered this, but It felt so weirdly real!"

The Mandela effect used to be really popular in school around 2014, just around the time you said he died and it was for the same reasons. It was only popular because kids were being presented with new things, or nostalgic things that they didn’t even know the proper name to in the first place.

This is untrue, I came from a Parrellel universe in which J.J had a Mustache. Sort of resembling something from a Sex Offender registry. This can't be a coincidence

I have no memory of Nelson Mandela dying until he actually died. The Mandela Effect is just another example of the Mass Stupidity Effect.

It is more that people are similar enough that they tend to misremember things the same way, so if you get enough people with one particular memory flaw, they can reinforce each other to believe it changed.

Some people are so unwilling to admit that they’re remembering things wrong that they rather believing in alternate universes 😄

"Hey I just remembered, you owe me money!" "No I don't!" "Yes you do...mAnDeLa EfFeCt!"

I have never heard of this stupid dimension theory. It's just "wow, i thought X happended, weird" and it ends there. For a LONG time I had a false memory of a news article about John Goodman passing away and got very confused when I saw him in a new movie. I have absolutelly no idea where the hell that false memory came from.

Some actual research on this was just published: Prasad, D., & Bainbridge, W. A. (2021). The Visual Mandela Effect: Evidence for specific shared false memories in popular iconography. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2121-2121.

People also dont realize that printed typos and bootleg misspelled products exist

I obviously dont believe in the whole conspiracy theory, but I think it's a pretty cool phenomenon that many people who aren't really connected can misremember something in the same way

Teacher: Uhh, Ken, you got number 17 wrong, the answer was actually 42. Ken: *No, in my universe it was 69! I swear! I knew it! The earthquake drill was out universes colliding!*

All of this can be explained by a psychological principle called "inattentional blindness." You remember it not quite right because attention is limited, and you only sort of remember most things. For instance, no one entirely remembers what a penny looks like (or whatever a common coin might be in your country). Memory is constructive, not absolute. We remember some things and construct the rest of our memory around what our brain thinks probably happened.

I am pretty sure I slipped into another world, and I desperately need to get back into my original world. Nothing in this world makes sense. I can't be alone in feeling that way.

I love it when people are like "It even has it's own subreddit!" like I can literally make a subreddit about anything right now. In fact I'll make a subreddit about this video. r/JJMcCulloughMandela

This is literally just an "I can't be wrong, therefore the whole world has to be wrong" kind of mentality.

Someone: *misremembers something* Also them: "Two universes must've collided"

I remember those books as Bearstein, and I keep realizing that my memory around 5yo is terrible every time I look them up for nostalgia.

Many people use this for conspiracy theories, but many also use it simply to refer to collective false memory. There's not any real problem with the name.

Mandela effect has nothing to do with alternate universes. it's all to do about the fallacy of memory....

There is only one Mandela Effect that gives me pause. The cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo that was never there. The reason this one hits me differently is simple. While I thought there was one there (and there wasn't), I saw a rendering someone did that DID include a cornucopia, and it matched PERFECTLY the memory I thought I had of it. So, we misremembered the exact same design? I don't know how to explain it, and won't chalk it up to alternate universes. But it was weird. Most of these though, are clear examples of people making the same sort of memory mix-up.

That last part is so true, the amount of of arrogance from people thinking they are right about everything all the time and can’t admit they are wrong and they have remembered something wrong or heard misinformation and passed it on then get very defensive and nasty when corrected

Sometimes in RPG's there is stat called "persuasion" and as a child with dyslexia and aphasia I was sure that it is called "perversion". I lived with that conviction for many years just to be laugh at by my friends somewhere as a teenager. Guess all that time I should not feel stupid and admit mistake but name myself the traveler between other realities

Maybe people who think the Monopoly Man had a monocle are mistaking him with the mayor on Power Puff Girls? Just one possibility for that

I'm a history major, love history, especially the period of WW1 and WW2. For 4 decades I've studied it. One interesting part is why the US got involved. I remember back in the 80s when the Statue of Liberty was being restored. Stories of the torch, was it going to be reopened, and why it was closed, structural problems. I recall 9/11, and the debate if it was the first terrorist attack on US soil, or was it Pearl Harbor. I argued for 9/11 as PH was an attack on the military by military forces. I mention this because now all three are touched by another event which I had never heard of until about 5 years ago. That is the explosion of Black Tom in 1916 in NYC harbor. Millions of pounds of ordinance exploded which was to go to the Allies of WW1, including Russia. It shattered windows 25 miles away. Killed between 4-50 depending on sources including a baby, wounded over a hundred. This wasn't a small explosion. This was sabotage (according to sources) by German agents. The explosion is now listed as one of the reasons the US got involved in WW1. Wait, you mean for decades I was taught the Lusitania,and Zimmerman Telegram, yet this massive explosion which killed people, wounded people, destroyed US property, was ignored? The explosion was so great it damaged the Statue of Liberty and is now the cause of why the torch is closed. Yet during reconstruction I never read about that? It was the first terrorist attack on US soil, by German agents, yet after 9/11 never heard of it. They now say FDR used this explosion as a reason to imprison Japanese-Americans in WW2 to curb terrorism. Yet up to a few years ago, never heard of FDR using that as a reason. Such a massive event, yet it wasn't even mentioned until a few years ago, its puzzling. The fact that such an event, which personally is greater than the Zimmerman telegram or Lusitania, and yet no mention in any history class in HS, or even more in depth classes in college. I don't see why such an event would have been ignored. If its not a Mandela Effect, we need to ask why it wasn't taught. Why was it swept aside. BTW, every time I now look at it, something new is added (like just today I saw that FDR used it as a reason in WW2).

Whem I first heard about the mandela effect when I was little, instead of drawing me in, it freaked me out that my loved ones might not actually be the originals- another reason why that theory is a bit wack

Mickey Mouse has no eyes, it’s 100% true I remember it (Edit) whaaat Mickey Mouse has eyes wow mind blown the universe is colliding the illuminati is true time is warping wtf help meeeee

So it’s being wrong about something you dont remember. i.e. forgetting

I watch this every six months to cope with listening others excuse their bad memory of trivia

I think the common explanation of the confusion about Mandela specifically is that they conflate the death of Steve Biko with Nelson Mandela. So. Stupid.

I was actually a mandela effect believer and now I see how stupid it is, thank you

"It used to be spelled Hilary Clinton now it's Hillary Clinton" Damn, that's just sad

I think a big reason for a lot of these also has to do with people never actually seeing the original thing they think they remember, instead they’ve seen parodies of it and people hold on to those quotes, like Jim Carrey says hello clarice in the cable guy… or when Jim Carrey dances with an old man with a monocle and calls him the monopoly guy in ace Ventura

As a child I often experienced the Mandela effect, on TV, in movies, in songs. And it was a back and forth sort of thing. But growing up I realized they were just the effects of censorship and different cuts and edits.

I've always heard the mandela effect to reference times when many people have miss remembered the exact same thing, none of the parallel universe bs

God, it’ll eventually come to a court case where the dude is like “well, murder is legal in my universe”

If witnesses in court have stories that line up perfectly the judge may suspect they made the story up, because in reality people remember things very differently. (e.g. what color shirt the person was wearing, what hair color they had, or even where/when the crime happened.)

In other words, the Mandela effect is just a popular excuse to avoid admitting you made a mistake.

What if the Mandela effect is real, but we live in a universe where the Mandela effect doesnt occur? 🤔

Your memories just aren’t that accurate all the time, that’s all it is.

Dudes had bad memory and went "Parellel universes"

"I'm wrong?! That's IMPOSSIBLE- unless there are alternate universes bleeding into each other!!!" 🤦‍♀️

Bro Mandela effect isn't actually explained as alternate universe colliding , it's the mass misremembering of a thing

I was gonna make a joke when I watched this video 2 years ago Then I realized it was uploaded today

People say its a mandela effect, but there is an actual intruder in my house. This is not a reference he is armed and I'm scared.

See I never knew the logic behind the Mandela effect was "alternate universes" which I agree is very stupid I always assumed the Mandela effect was just a way of saying "miss remembering things" in a very innocent way

My theory for the Mandela aspect of the effect is that the mistake the death of Bobby Sands for the death of Mandela. Both prominent left wing freedom fighters imprisoned during the 80s.

The names with the "-stein" suffix are actually mostly German on origin and "Stein" means "Stone" in German. Made you learn!

Berenstein Bears is a silly one because it's just the fact that the titles of the books were written in cursive so naturally people would assume the loops at the end would be the more common "stein" suffix instead of the weirder "stain"

It could be worse. When Nelson Mandela died a girl I know thought he was a fictional character.

In my universe, The "Mandela Effect" is DUMB by J.J. McCullough was blocked by RU-vid.

I've never actually heard of this theory that the Mandela Effect was some multiverse converging in on themselves. Ive always seen that it was something that was misremembered (or misquoted) so much, and so often, that the collective "knowledge" of people thought the misremembered information was correct. Like "Luke, I am your father" was just something someone misquoted, no one really paid attention to it until most people now think that's the quote.... The multiverse theory is stupid lol

The Mandela Effect as in the phenomenon of people all believing the same false detail exists, it's just the thing where people think it's parallel universes is the ridiculous part.

I thought Pikachu has black end of the tail because I had a unofficial Pikachu toy