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by RedShift1 1279 days ago
Mandela effect
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It's the result of people repeating what they read on the Internet, not what they personally experienced.

This happens way too often

> This happens way too often

You're not wrong; but fyi it only happens in your originating universe. Over here we all experienced it.

People being lied to is not the Mandela effect. The Mandela effect is about things you personally remember.

A Mandela effect here would be if the explanations themselves that talked about overflow never existed.