The Mandela Effect
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Nelson Mandela didn't die in prison... But the country might have been better off if he had've.
Had he died in prison, 99% of people claiming they ''remember Mandela died in prison'' would have never heard of him ouside of South Africa.
Steven Biko died in police custody, and the only reason I know that is because they made a fictionalized movie of it I had to watch in middle school english class.
And it was the BerenSTEIN Bears.
I want out of this BerenSTAIN of a timeline
I remember reading a comment on a popular article talking about the Mandela Effect--the same one James Rolfe showed off in his Berenstain Bears video.
It theorized that when Stan and Jan came over to the US from Ukraine, someone either misspelled their names in the log book, or they couldn't read the couple's handwriting, leading to the spelling change. In other words, BOTH are valid.
The guy commenting? Mike Berenstain--son of Stan and Jan.
There are two branches of my family tree-- one with the surname spelled with an 's' and another with a 'z' for similar reasons. Turns out immigrants aren't the best at anglicization of their slavic names when they don't know much English.
For what it's worth, it really wasn't. I distinctly remember as a young kid in elementary school, raising my hand and asking, "why is everyone saying BerenSTEIN Bears? It should be BerenSTAIN Bears." Nobody cared, and that was the end of that.
Of course, I guess I could have come from another timeline, but even there, people were pronouncing it wrong.
You are a primary-timeliner. You came into existence after we F'd with the time machine, while many have been ported over.
Well, the mainstream explanation is that there were regional differences. Some places were one or the other. Perhaps you moved at one point during you child hood?
There are some legitimate humdingers though.
Like the monopoly guy and his monocle. Come the fuck ON. Or fruit of the loom with the cornucopia.
I think the most likely theory is its some kinda of internet worm/virus that can rewrite information in real time. I know that sounds bizzaree, but in that movie "the core?" i think with that nerdy guy from "the new guy" the government tasks him "a hacker" with designing such a thing. This was a movie from 25 years ago. Imagine how powerful such a tool could be, and does no one remember a decade ago those strange rumors about how someone had the ability to delete photos from internet connected computers of what I think was war atrocities that israel had committed? Was that fake news?
But the star wars "luke I am not your father" and the "We are the champions, of the world." are another couple. But I chalk those up to maybe MAYBE being misremembered. But I remember hearing that song so many times on the radio, and so many skits where they all say the same thing.
Its certainly easier to believe that they are collapsing timelines lmao, things do feel funny and alot of people feel the same way.
This clip from ace ventura 2? Like your telling me this was all some mass delusion? loL?
https://streamable.com/u2cviu
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fruit-of-the-loom-cornucopia/
Fuck off with your mental gymnastics snopes.
I only moved within the same town as a kid. Additionally (and this is probably going to get me yelled at), I loved Monopoly around this same time, and he did not have a monocle in my set. I was not a Fruit of the Loom guy, so I can't comment on that. In We Are The Champions, Mercury does sing "of the world" around the 1:09 mark. I'm pretty sure people just mentally/out loud add it at the end, because I only remember "of the world" continuing into "we are the champions" again, and it does seem kind of unresolved without it. I really think something similar is going on with Berenstain, because I remember people completely ignoring the "Berenstain" pronunciation even when I pointed it out and it was right in front of their faces to continue pronouncing it "Berenstein." I'm pretty damn sure that's what's going on there.
I really think this is what's going on.
Its really dumb that a really interesting Psychological happening had to get its name forever linked to something that really isn't part of it and had any number of simpler explanations.
Like you know, people not giving a shit about some random person in another country so they just assume the sudden silence means he died.
Perfectly worded. They swept him under the rug for so long until after he died that people were surprised when he finally did die "wait he didn't die forever ago?"
Mandela DID die a decade ago. That's two decades after he took power. These Stormfag memes are retarded, but then again, they are created by retards.
If the Stormfags hate Mandela this much even though he gave amnesty to people who committed crimes during the previous regime, how much would they hate him if he had actually instituted racial pogroms?
You should get your IQ tested, might even get some neet bucks.
I asked, and they said that knowing that Mandela has been dead for a decade does not qualify me for benefits. Such a shame.
Stupid and unfunny. Killer combination.
It's no way to go through life, son.