The Mandela Effect Iceberg Explained

The Mandela Effect Iceberg Explained

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[bryangarcia]

I don't care what anyone says; the Fruit of the Loom logo _did_ have a cornucopia in it, and you gaslighting 'loose-fruiters' can't convince me otherwise

[fazesyphon]

Fun fact: For the fruit of the loom cornucopia, the actual person who even drew and came up with the logo design blatantly remembers drawing the cornucopia but can't seem to find the original drawing with it so it's weirder than we thought.

[moodycancer]

I think the "Tinkerbell drawing the Disney logo" comes from the Disney Fast Play scenes at the start of some of the DVDs. She flies on screen, waves a wand in a line, and there's a bunch of sparkles, just like what was shown in the artistic rendition in this video. That's got to be it.

[hrimp_Nachos]

Props for actually keeping the “iceberg” formula and going from most known to most obscure. So many people make “iceberg” videos but don’t actually understand the concept. 👏

[Cp-]

An example of how bad human memory can be: Years ago me and my family were in a serious car crash. Soon after the event some of us started discussing what colour the car that hit us was. My dad (the driver) called it black, his friend (passenger seat) remembered it grey and I (back seat) saw it as white.
In reality, it was red.

[panqueque]

I think C3PO's silver leg is barely noticeable because it kind of acts like a mirror, and it reflects the golden leg next to it. So when you're watching the movie you're not paying attention to the leg, but it looks vaguely golden due to the reflection so you don't notice it's silver. When you look at it closely it's fairly obvious, but when you're not even aware of it, you don't notice it.

[BalloonFarts]

There was a WWII veteran that used to live on my block. He was full of phrases. My favorite was, "A little lead never killed nobody." This was in reference to the news reports of an increase of lead found in the water in the early 2000's. This guy used to use the term kicked the bucket plenty. My cousin and I had a conversation with him about our goals in life. He used the term Bucket List. I asked him what a bucket list was, he explained that it was a list of things you wanted to do before you kicked the bucket. He passed away in 2005. So the term was definitely used before 2007.

[MichaelB-jwpo]

I have this vivid memory of seeing the Fruit of the Loom logo at a store as a very young kid, asking my mom what the weird horn thing was, and her explaining a cornucopia to me. And for years after that I was really proud of knowing the definition of the word "cornucopia". It still completely boggles my mind that that memory is somehow false.

[PolariusKarnun]

The version of "We Are the Champions" played on Classic Rock radio does have the "of the world, " and it's a way more widely-known version than the original studio version.

[PlantKitty]

7:50
Surprised he didn't mention that one of the people who supposedly "remembers this scene wrong" is *the actor voicing Darth Vader.* He literally did an interview once where he said that *he* remembers the line that way too, and was deeply disturbed to discover he never actually said it
edited because apparently people couldn't figure out "played" meant his voice actor 😑

[Zuldim]

I've always chalked up minor line changes like "No Luke, I am your father" or "Hello Clarice" or "Scotty, beam us up" as people adding context to their references to make them play better. If you want to reference Silence of the Lambs, then saying "Good morning" isn't really going to get that across. That Star Wars scene is so ubiquitous now that you could get away with not saying "Luke, " but it still makes the reference land more clearly.

Eventually, people get so used to hearing the references, and hearing them more times than they see the scenes being referenced, that the references actually start to replace the original line in your head, leading to you remembering slightly skewed versions of the lines.

No idea how C3PO got that silver leg though, that's alternate dimension shit, it's gotta be

[RelicAmbergris]

About Shaggy's Adam's apple:

Every movie I distinctly remember him having an Adam's apple also involved scenes where he swallowed a large amount of food in one gulp, giving the impression of an Adam's apple. The main ones I remember are Reluctant Werewolf, Boo Brothers, and Ghoul School.

Because we recognise Shaggy as a character who eats a lot, the synonymous image of the food being swallowed creating a lump in his throat for comedic effect is what's being misremembered

[karlaknezevic]

Growing up in a lower-middle class household, we couldn't afford original toys/cartoons and because of that my parents sometimes bought rip-off toys like pikachu who definitely has black tip on the tail. I think those cases could contribute to similar Mandela effects

[monarkfc]

Mine is a little weird and kinda random but I remember watching Chicken Little in 2004. I remember going to the cinema with my cousin and watching it, I remembered the plot and everything that happened and was very confused when some time later I saw the movie trailer while watching TV with my cousin, he said he wanted to watch it and I was confused, I asked "didn't we already watched it?" and then he was confused so I never touched on the subject again. When the movie released we went to the cinema and watched it and I remembered everything, I felt like I had already watched the movie and couldn't understand why my cousin was acting like that was the first time we were watching it.

[DragonSlayer]

The "objects in mirror may be closer than they appear" one hits super hard for me. I remember as a kid back in the early 2000s wondering why it was worded like that because the "may be" didn't make any sense to me

[sugarrusheb]

"elementary my dear, watson" wasn't coined in the movies, it was coined in a fan writing back when the newspapers would publish fan submissions. It was coined by a fan and attributed to Sherlock ever since.

[HarveyMidnight]

The fact that 'Smokey Bear' is remembered as "Smokey The Bear" isn't a Mandela effect at all Yes, the official creators of the character named him "Smokey Bear' in 1945.. However, there's a song from 1952 called "Smokey The Bear", which was sung by Gene Autry, and was a fairly well known childhood song, for "Boomers" like me. The songwriter intentionally added "the" because it worked better over the song's rhythm. This led to the publishers of the very popular "Little Golden Book" series to use the name "Smokey The Bear" for their original 1955 book about the character... although, there was a 1961 version that used the correct name of 'Smokey Bear'. Kids reading Little Golden Books from the 60's though the 80's could easily have seen either version, as I think those books were often passed down as hand-me-downs. But kids throughout the 50s through the 70's would certainly have heard the song "Smokey *The* Bear".... I plainly remember hearing and singing the Gene Autry version of 'Smokey The Bear' in Kindergarten in the early 70's. So, no, we're not remembering it wrong- there was official media that existed for "Smokey The Bear".

[thundersmiting]

As for Snow White, the Brothers Grimm's German text reads "Spieglein Spieglein an der Wand", which translates as "mirror mirror on the wall."
I suspect another version or several other versions in English used a more literal translation, effecting what people expect from the Disney film.

[theoddbox]

For the Looney Tunes one, sound in film was a brand new thing when it was created and a lot of cartoon series were named similarly since sound was a major selling point to distributors. Looney Tunes also has a sister series called 'Merrie Melodies', Disney had 'Silly Symphonies', and MGM had 'Happy Harmonies'

[ntcnetwork]

The “Bond, James Bond” line has many variations across the 25 official films in the series. “The name’s Bond, James Bond” specifically is the final line in one of the most beloved 007 films ‘Casino Royale’, and that film’s version of the Bond theme was even named “The Name’s Bond, James Bond” and was used in several subsequent films.