r/Retconned 10d ago

Mandela Effect

What’s the point of that sub? It’s like no one there believes in it. No one ever gets to talk about Mandela Effects.

I will die on the hill that it was BerenSTEIN Bears. I could read very young, and while my mom was grocery shopping, I’d read from the book stand. It was the 80s in a small town, in a small store, so I was ok being alone while my mom shopped. I remember wondering how to pronounce it. Why do I have that memory if it never was spelled that way?!

That’s my biggest one I just can’t get over. I also remember riding in the car with my mom and asking what does “objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear” meant.

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u/AzureWave313 10d ago

Lmao I’m permanently banned from that sub for calling out their BS. 😂

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u/rajalove09 10d ago

It’s just stupid that it’s for Mandela effects, but if you share your opinion, you’ll be downvoted to oblivion. I don’t know why I’m still there, I know not to comment or post lol

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u/edwardslair 9d ago

Obviously some people running damage control.

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u/RegularLibrarian1984 7d ago

Most main sub's are probably planted opposition to control the narrative. I remember researching the Flintsones Mandela effect writing on the Mandela Effect sub that in our reality it used to be the Flintstones not Flin, we got down voted to Nirvana all said it always was "FLIN" went to all searches and saw everywhere Flinstones without the T even re-watched a DVD i have seen endlessly Planes Trains and Automobiles i watched it the subtitles said FLINStones they sang it too. Then Last Christmas re-watched it and it was Flintstones again, all searches too subtitles changed back, i searched my old downvoted comment on the Mandela sub it didn't exist anymore. I found a 11 year old Post in which people constantly experienced the same thing over the years, they posted something on the Mandela sub got down voted, it changed back their comment vanished. I think we never going back but in a reality where we noticed something changed to the version we remembered. These residue memories are sadly the only evidence as the matter changed too.