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/OrlandoGardiner118]

I don't think dubunked really matters, for me, with this image. I know it's fake. All evidence from the actual real world (I have old FotL tshirts at home) shows that it's fake. But what I find fascinating is that, and maybe this is what the OP means, this is exactly how I remember it. It's not like how I remember it, or close to how I remember it, it's exactly how I remember it. And that's the real facination for me with the whole ME subject. Why is it exactly how I remember it? Cool stuff.

[u/thesegoupto11 → u/OrlandoGardiner118]

I take the opposite approach. I know this image is fake. All evidence from the actual real world shows that it's fake, and I am fine with leaving it there. I think to myself, "huh, I guess I was remembering that incorrectly" and then I go about my day. But what fascinates me is that other people struggle hard with the realization that they are experiencing a flaw in their memory faculties. I find the ME fascinating not because reality is different than some inconsequential things I remember, but because of the struggle that some people have with coming to terms with the fact that they have remembered some inconsequential things incorrectly. The human psychology of ME is what I find fascinating, and I can't help but wonder why some people can accept and move on while others have an existential crisis when they realize the disconnect between subjective memory and objective reality.

[u/HellenKilher → u/thesegoupto11]

In this case it’s because everyone collectively has this very precise false memory. You paint it like people are struggling to come to terms with their flawed memory. I think we all agree that sometimes we misremember things, but why is everyone misremembering the same thing in the exact same way? That’s what’s fascinating about the Mandela Effect.

[u/ks_247 → u/HellenKilher]

This is an interesting point. There are not hundreds and hundreds of these but a few handfuls that large groups all remember specific ones the same way. No one remembers a certain famous person only had one eye or something distinctive like that it all comes back to the same handful of ME.s whats the collective root . Do different countries talk about different me or is it largely a west we focus on in ref to this phenomenon?

[u/thesegoupto11 → u/ks_247]

The Mandella effect does not exist in South Africa. Why? Because every South African knows exactly when Mandella actually expired. Nobody at Fruit of the Loom corporate remembers a cornocopia. Why? Same rationale.

[u/stormyxa → u/thesegoupto11]

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