Oscar Mayer has always been spelled that way. I have tape recordings from recording TV shows as a kid that recorded the commercial with the kid spelling it m a y e r and I've eaten Oscar Mayer product all my life and it's always been spelled m a y e r. I remember all my life wondering why the name Meyer was spelled differently than what most people think it should be and that's probably where people think they remember it is meyr but it wasn't!

Remote Viewer Dick Allgire discusses creating Mandela Effects with Daz Smith, Richard Dolan, et al.

Here is one of the Eeriest Evidence of this Quantum Particle Entanglement Anomaly I have Seen as of Yet. A Man Films Himself Holding his Nephews Berenstain Book, (strangely Titled "On TIME" ) and as He Walks From one Room, across the Doir Threshold into the Next Room, his Bedroom, The Phenomenon is Displayed on Video of the Series Bookmark "Berenstain Bears" is Seen Glitching into "Berenstein Bears" Very Unsettling for Anyone Who Hasn't Viewed This

https://youtu.be/OomxA3C_jnE?si=Dk1cfke3wYOTgrIV

I'll link a youtube clip. Kathy Bates even says, "My stovetop!!" When she picks the box up from a puddle. https://youtu.be/9swSXpqU8Ww?si=3hJ5WAjM9UJOS8gb

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ma_OEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA187&dq=fruit+of+the+loom+cornucopia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMv-rfr7iMAxXrMlkFHU3hEvUQuwV6BAgFEAg#v=onepage&q=fruit%20of%20the%20loom%20cornucopia&f=false

It seems to me that the biggest knock against the Mandela effect being anything more than human fallibility is that it only affects things that aren’t particularly important to the person.

Celebrities and Politicians that we don’t interact with much - it’s easy to imagine a lot of people who don’t hear much South African news hearing that a political dissident was imprisoned and just assuming “oh, he’s dead.” Or an actor announcing they have cancer and dropping out of the public eye. “Val Kilmer got cancer and then hasn’t been seen in public for years. He must have died ages ago.”

It’s easy to imagine that children who can’t read cursive well will just fill in “stein” for “stain” because the Berenstains have a weird name and children have bad memory. Or people who may not have looked at the tag on their underwear in years mentally filling in the cornucopia.

But if people who lived in South Africa, who would have a vested interest in a major politician dying, still remembered Mandela’s death - well then something weird is happening.

For much of the world, Nelson Mandela never really impacted their life. But for a South African it would be like an American suddenly finding out John F. Kennedy survived the shooting and lived happily until 1993.

I asked Gemini. This is what i got. If we were to entertain the idea that the Mandela effect is "real" in a sense that it's caused by something other than typical memory errors, here are some of the concepts that have been put forward: * Alternate Realities/Parallel Universes: * This is perhaps the most popular theory. It suggests that these discrepancies in memory are due to "bleed-throughs" or "crossovers" from alternate realities. In this view, people are experiencing memories from a slightly different timeline or universe where things occurred differently. * For example, those who remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison might be recalling events from a parallel reality where that did happen. * Changes to the Past: * Another idea is that the past itself has been altered, and these alterations are causing discrepancies in our memories. This could be due to some unknown force or technology that has the ability to rewrite history. * Simulation Theory: * Some proponents of the simulation theory suggest that we are living in a computer simulation, and the Mandela effect is a result of glitches or changes in the simulations.

The define example is curious George and his tail. George is a monkey. monkeys have tails. It makes sense to assume that he would have one even though he never did.

It seems like there is a strong connection between Mandela Effect and Observation Effect. We understand that on a quantum level we can change things simply by observing/measuring them, but what if it worked similarly on a much larger scale? What if, when we all stopped paying attention, it gave the information in the universe time to “switch.”

I know people talk about the many worlds theory, and I’m sure that there is the possibility between what I am saying and many worlds, but for the sake of keeping it simpler for now let’s assume one universe, but where information is not totally persistent.

Perhaps all of the universe is held together by observation. Perhaps, if we all stopped paying attention, everything would fall apart.

I guess we don’t even need the observation effect, entropy working on an informational level could account for the Mandela effect. It’s just good old fashioned breaking down of information in the universe.

Thoughts? Heard anything similar?

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Hi, it's my first time here. I bought at the drift shop a DvD copy of The Sims 2 Double Deluxe from 2007. Just for fun I launched the bonus DvD to watch the first video tutorial for the game. Just right after we see chef producer Lyndsay Pearson speaking, you can see a Sim begging next to a clothes shop where its logo looks like the Fruit of the Loom logo that I remember when I was a kid.

I was born in the 1970s, and I well remember when my mother folded my laundry, the logo on my underwear. A cornucopia with fruits coming out of it. I could spend several minutes staring at the logo, wondering “how they could make such a small, detailed design”.

Some time ago, I learned about the Mandela effect. After watching a video of a 13-year-old explaining how this phenomenon could exist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U45ZL7nBqwA), I was amazed. About at the same time, I found out about the logo without the cornucopia and it always bothered me.

But today, after seeing the logo in the game, I'm more confused. At the time, I remember very well that in The Sims 2 you could see that the creators liked to parody current life at the time (link).

I just wanted to share my little discovery with you and see what do you guys think of it.

For you, what is the most recent ME, the closest to the present?

Let’s say you put together a puzzle of a bowl of fruit. After it’s complete, you take out a piece from the middle. Anybody who looks at that puzzle is going to see a bowl of fruit. You might notice that the piece is missing, but your mental image of the bowl of fruit isn’t altered. The Mandela Effect is your mind taking in a convergence of imagery, both external and internal and filling in a hole. Maybe a hole that wasn’t even there. Of course there was a cornucopia. Of course she was wearing braces. Everything was set up for it to be there. But maybe not.
Maybe our brain thought that a hole needed filled. Our brain did a thing and we just stick to our guns.

Nelson Mandela was never a ‘freedom fighter’ in Turkey

Towards the end of the 80s, Turkey and South Africa were enjoying better relations than ever before. South Africa was subjected to an embargo by the whole world due to the activities of the current regime. South Africa could only break this embargo by importing Israeli weapons from Turkey with the secret approval of the USA. This enabled the two countries to get on very well with each other. And to the Turkish public opinion Mandela was merely an anti-government criminal in prison.

A few years later, when Mandela was released from prison and took over the leadership of the African National Congress, it was announced in Turkey that the ‘Atatürk International Peace Prize’ had been awarded to Mandela in 1992, a decision which was later investigated in Turkey, but for which no justification could be found.

A few days later Mandela announced that he rejected this award. The rejection of an award named after Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey and the father of the Turks, created a major political crisis in Turkey. The award committee was dissolved. The newspapers reported that Mandela did not like the prize money and that he had made this decision because of his sympathies for the separatist PKK terrorist organisation. Mandela's name in newspaper headlines in those days was ‘Ugly African’.

This situation was never forgotten in Turkish public opinion. When Mandela was elected as the President of South Africa, the pressure on him continued in every environment. Until Mandela was forced to accept this award in 1999. During this period, relations between Turkey and South Africa were never good. Neither Mandela visited Turkey. Nor did any official from Turkey pay an official visit to Mandela or South Africa.

Not only during his prison days, but also during his presidency, and even when he died, Mandela was not cared for at all in Turkey. When he died, no official from Turkey attended his funeral and no official from Turkey commemorated his death.

Nelson Mandela has never been a freedom fighter who fought for the freedom of black people in South Africa, a political prisoner who spent his life in prison or a similar person in Turkey.

Even if Mandela had died in prison in the 80s, it would not have been newsworthy in Turkey, his funeral would not have been broadcast on TV, or his wife's tearful speech would not have been shown on the screens.

Since Mandela is not a ‘positively’ important person in Turkey, nobody thinks that he was a black South African freedom fighter who died in prison in the 80s. therefore there is no ‘Mandela’ in Turkey about whom people have disagreements.

Perhaps for this reason, even though the concept of the Mandela effect has found a place in popular culture with American examples, there is not even a single example originating from Turkey.

I’ve been seeing the Mandela effect flying around again in which it seems most of us agree SpongeBob had some sort of Flying V guitar (either Purple or White) in the “Goofy Goober Rock” sequence in the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. It got me thinking about how funny memories can be sometimes and how a lot of things can be mixed up if it’s similar. As we all know right now the guitar that features in the song is a Peanut Shaped guitar with “GG” at the top, and I do believe it always has been that way. Here’s where my theory comes in. Another HUGE song sequence in the SpongeBob SquarePants series was “Sweet Victory” in episode 15 of season 2 called Band Geeks and it features, what do you know, a purple Flying V guitar. Only difference is that it’s held by Sandy and not SpongeBob. I think we may be collectively mixing up 2 big song sequences in the series and just filled in the blank of a Flying V that had been in a previous episode instead of some odd shaped one-off guitar. What do you guys think?

Here’s a weird one! Yesterday my ex and I were discussing simulation theory and she asked me, “what color is puce?” I said it’s a yellow-green-brown and she said, “not anymore!”

Now it’s a red tone, with a convenient and catchy backstory of several hundred years.

Half of my family are professional artists, mostly painters and muralists. My ex, her best friend, and I all remember puce as an ugly green-yellow-brown. We were born 1983-1987 and from totally different parts of the country.

This one troubles me 😬

there's no date on the site but if anyone remember tripod it was similar to geocities and it's still active.
https://bucketlist.tripod.com/

there may be some clues to pinpoint the exact date of the site, the song "My Next Thirty Years" by Tim McGraw came out in April 2000 and it's embedded here: https://bucketlist.tripod.com/id9.html

A theory about the FOTL cornucopia is that there were counterfeits. In 1990, there were. Notice the description of the label- grape, apple and pear. No mention of a cornucopia. But also a pear has never been a part of the logo.

It happened in the mid 90s. I wasn't just that walkers became more popular and always were the wrong way around. They swapped it. It was a massive deal in the mid 90s in my school as it happened.

I'm sat here with my school friend who is 100% certain that it happened and remembers the whole thing. We both remember a football advert where the players swapped shirts to promote it.

It happened. I tried to organise a boycott at my school at the time to force walkers to switch back. Even at university in the late 90s people would talk about not buying them anymore to force them to swap BACK. to swap BACK.

I just rang my uni mate who is adamant as well.

Reality has changed.

I’ve recently been looking into one of the most well-known Mandela Effects—the claim that Britney Spears wore a black microphone headset in the Oops!... I Did It Again music video. The official narrative now insists that she never wore one, but I’ve found compelling evidence suggesting otherwise.

Key Findings:

1. Physical Merch Confirms the Headset Existed

Officially licensed Britney Spears dolls based on the music video include the black headset.

Halloween costumes inspired by the video often feature the headset as part of the look.

Countless old social media posts (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) show fans dressing up as Britney with the headset, years before this Mandela Effect gained attention.

1. Residual Frames in the Music Video

In my own investigation, I found two frames in the video where the headset is still visible, despite it being absent in the rest of the footage.

If the headset was “never there,” why do some frames still contain it? This suggests the video may have been altered, but not perfectly.

1. False Narrative Gaslighting?

Many claim that this is simply the Mandela Effect and that we are all misremembering, but that doesn’t explain physical proof like the dolls and costumes.

If media companies or other entities are retroactively altering historical footage, that raises serious concerns about digital manipulation and revisionism.

Why This Matters

If something as seemingly trivial as a pop music video has been altered without public acknowledgment, it raises a much bigger question:

What else has been changed?

How long has this been happening?

Who benefits from gaslighting the public into thinking their memories are faulty?

This feels like something straight out of 1984—rewriting history while making people question their own recollections. If this was altered, it’s proof that reality itself is being manipulated.

Next Steps: We Need to Investigate Further

If you have older versions of the music video (DVD, VHS, early digital downloads), please check them! Compare them to the modern version and see if the headset was originally there. If you find any video discrepancies, metadata inconsistencies, or additional evidence, please share them here.

I’m only one person, but I refuse to be gaslit into thinking my memories—and the memories of thousands of others—are just “wrong.” If we can prove that the video was altered, it could expose something much bigger.

What do you all think? Have you noticed any other evidence? Let’s get to the bottom of this.

I have decided to become a detective and try to get to the bottom of the mysterious Mandela effect. Some of us theorize it may be due to time travel or teleportation. This will be a strange case, as I doubt I could find any evidence.