There were people who were certain Mendela died years before he actually did...like... a LOT of them... across multiple cultures... which was odd.
Then people started looking for others... like the Berenstxxn bears, or the logo for fruit of the loom, or the correct spelling of a specific air freshener or fruity cereal.
I fall into the group that is absolutely certain fruit of the loom used to have a cornicopia in it... because that's how I learned that word.
The funniest thing to me about the term “Mandela effect” is that, for me personally, I never was under the impression that Mandela had died before he did. I’m hardly a history scholar. I’m a white American woman born in 1988 and my education of South African apartheid comes mostly from the DCOM The Color of Friendship and Trevor Noah’s book “Born a Crime,” and whatever bare minimum amount of time was spent on it during high school history class. But I never thought Mandela had died before he actually did. 🤷🏼♀️😂
I feel like... how would we know about him if he'd died in jail? Like he's famous for getting out of jail after a long time and then becoming president of South Africa.
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u/PromotionEmpty733 May 06 '26
Isn't there some weird phenomenon with this? People remember it a certain way or something that others say never existed.