• snoons@lemmy.ca
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    I’d rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel then accept that my memories might be wrong.

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    It’s interesting that when you see them laid out like this you can more easily see the reasons people could have come to remember this way.

    For instance, conflating Jif and Skippy as essentially the same product, or getting an association of missing letters from the “eat mor chik’n” cows ad campaign.

    • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldOP
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      Agreed, also by putting so many together like this, you’re gonna have some people who don’t remember it that way. Like the Monopoly guy is half-convincing to me, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a mix-up with Mr. Peanut.

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      My personal reason for messing up Chick Fil A in my head is because there used to be a different chicken restaurant chain where I grew up called Krispy Chic. Not sure if any are still open, but all the ones in aware of closed down decades ago.

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      All of the one where the spelling is wrong make sense, because people were projecting familiar versions of those words that made sense. Also Monkeys have tails—they gave him a design more reminiscent of a monkey than an ape, so people expect a tail

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      My aunt is a great believer in the Mandela effect and she insists LEGO used to be spelled leggo. My mom thinks she has it confused with the TV commercials saying “le’ggo my eggo”

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    Wait until people watch old shows from the 90s set in NYC, and there’s these two buildings in the skyline. But when you go to NYC, those buildings DON’T EVEN EXIST!!!

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    The Mandela effect is for people whose ego is so large that they believe that being catapulted into a parallel dimension without having noticed is a more plausible explanation than that they’re slightly wrong about something insignificant

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      as much as I want to think it’s only ego, there’s absolutely no way SO many people independently of each other remember the fruit of the loom logo had a cornucopia

      …granted there’s absolutely no way the solution to this conundrum is an alternate universe lmao

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        I’m with you on the cornucopia, there’s no way that logo didn’t exist somewhere.

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        A plausible theory I saw on the cornucopia is that some knockoff brand used it and the knockoff brand had poorer quality clothes and so none of it is around anymore

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      I make an active choice to believe I got catapulted into another dimension because that’s more entertaining and interesting than being slightly wrong, thank you very much!

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      The human brain has a tendency to see what it expects to see. That’s why most people don’t notice I’ve been deliberately misspelling Untied States for over a year. The brain just assumes it says what they expect it to say

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    The cornucopia was there. I swear on my life I saw it.

    I’m now convinced that there was a knock-off brand that posed as Fruit of the Loom for years with the altered logo. That’s the only explanation I’ll accept. Mandela effect my ass.

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      Think probably what happened is the packaging had the cornucopia on it and it was very large and obvious and now no one has a sealed pack of underwear from the 90s

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    I recently did some digging on the fruit of the loom logo because I remember learning the word cornucopia and connecting it with the logo on my T-shirts and underwear.

    Yeah, I was mistaken. The dye on some of the clothes just made the logo look like there was a cornucopia. Like the leaves on the side being brown and a tiny bit of those leaves at the top right with the small white grapes at the bottom right also looking the same brown color? It definitely looks like a cornucopia until you look very closely.

    (The logo shown in the image above is a more modern one, look at the earlier ones from around the turn of this century and you’ll see it better)

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      Yeah that one was a real mindfuck to me too. I haven’t seen all of these as a kid, as I’m not from the states. We don’t get all that many fruit of the loom shirts here, dit from the ones I saw I was sure about the cornucopia.

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    Froot Loops has always been that way. Back when I was a kid, they only had three colours - red, orange, and yellow - and I remember being bothered that they had to repeat one of them. Problem got solved when they rolled out green.

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      I think a lot of these can be explained as wires being crossed with mixed memories. Memories of the Jiffy boxes in the cupboard next to Jif peanut butter might have mixed things up to where people misremember whether there was ever a Jiffy peanut butter.

      Chick-fil-A, same thing. Being a kid and thinking “wow that’s a weird way to spell it” about the “fil-A” part and somehow blending it into believing it was about the “Chick” part. Looney Tunes, Froot Loops, Berenstain Bears, all similar processes.

      The Sinbad Shazaam movie is almost certainly a mashup of a memories of Shaq’s Kazaam, the Sinbad cartoon movie from 1992, and Sinbad dressing like a Mediterranean/middle eastern pirate in All That.

      The thing I cannot explain, though, is the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I remember it that way, and I can’t find anything like that.

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        My money for the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia is that it a good quality bootleg called Fruit of Loom or something that got nuked at some point for copyright infringement. Kinda like all those bootleg Adidas brands.

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      pro-tip: putting image URLs in your comment like this: ![](URL) makes the image show up in your comment rather than just the URL

      I ended up making a quick tampermonkey script to convert image links to image elements

      this probably needs some work on the isImageUrl function but it works for this instance at least haha

      (function() {
          Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).filter(e => isImageUrl(e.href)).forEach(imageLink => {
              var imageElement = document.createElement('img');
              imageElement.src = imageLink.href;
              imageLink.after(imageElement);
              imageLink.style.display = 'none'
          });
      })();
      
      function isImageUrl(input){
          var url = new URL(input.toLowerCase());
          return url.pathname.endsWith('.jpg')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.png')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.gif');
      }
      

      oh and I guess it needs to be re-executed for when more comments are loaded by scrolling. in that case the already created image elements would double up, but you could just delete the original image link… it is quick and dirty after all

      edit: V2 is here

      (function() {
          console.log('script loaded');
          setInterval(findAndReplaceImageLinks, 10);
      })();
      
      function findAndReplaceImageLinks(){
          Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).filter(e => isImageUrl(e.href)).forEach(imageLink => {
              if (imageLink.classList == 'fst-italic link-dark link-opacity-75 link-opacity-100-hover'){ return; }
      
              //console.log(imageLink)
              var imageElement = document.createElement('img');
              imageElement.src = imageLink.href;
              imageLink.after(imageElement);
              imageLink.remove();
              console.log('image replaced');
          });
      }
      
      function isImageUrl(input){
          var url = new URL(input.toLowerCase());
          return url.pathname.endsWith('.jpg')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.png')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.gif');
      }
      
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    Looney “Toons” is the stupidest one.

    It was always a pun on toons by spelling it “Tunes” and because music is extremely prominent for it.

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      Especially in the early ones; they were basically ads to sell music from the Warner music catalog.

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      I never got it as a kid, partly because it was a difficult pun for that age. I didn’t know the word tune nor would I later pronounce it like that. The first forms of that word, I ran into, were radio tuner and car tuning, nothing I’d associate with music

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    Whats wrong with the febreeze one? They did used to use those bottles, right? I’m pretty sure I have one around somewhere.

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    I’m convinced that the Mandela effect is just self gaslighting. I don’t have any strong memories about any of these things, so when someone shows me one I think it’s right, then I have a hard time believing it’s not right. If I was shown the correct one first the Mandela effect wouldn’t exist for me.

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      My aunt tried to “prove” the Mandela effect to me by asking how I remember the spelling of KitKat. I misremembered it with a hyphen. What she fails to understand is it proves nothing to me because I never claimed to have perfect memory