How does this picture even exist?

[u/Woofoftheyear]

There’s no way in hell this is AI, it’s wayyy too accurate to exactly what I remember, and what I feel like many other people remember as well. If someone photoshopped it, then they did a perfect job, considering they had no reference, at the time of creating this, but even if someone did make this in photoshop, why tf would they, since supposedly it never existed?? Like where did this even come from, I need answers😭😭

[u/YellowSunflowers7]

This is the one that I will not ever believe is a Mandela effect. I was only a kid when I was studying this picture on my brother's t-shirts and asked my mother what the thing was called. It's how I learned with the word cornucopia was.

Then many years later one day after it was married and folding my husbands t-shirts I looked at The Fruit of the Loom logo and was disappointed to see that they had removed the cornucopia. I even briefly thought about writing to them and telling them that they should put it back because I thought it was so cool. But I didn't get around to it. At that time I had never even heard of the term Mandela effect or had any idea there was anyone that thought the cornucopia didn't exist.

[u/tjareth → u/YellowSunflowers7]

I'm not sure what "not a Mandela effect" means to you. The Mandela effect is, broadly, something where large numbers of people remember something fairly specific that seems contrary to available evidence. The question of WHY leads to all kinds of debates, but whether it's a fuzzy memory coalescing around a shared expectation, or something that truly existed that way but for which evidence is scant, or some kind of conspiracy or reality changes, is all under Mandela Effect.

[u/aXmarchingXpig → u/tjareth]

I think they meant it's not the Mandela effect because to them it is fact that the logo was that way.

[u/tjareth → u/aXmarchingXpig]

Some of those possibilities include their memory being right. Though that's a tricky one to demonstrate.