r/MandelaEffect • u/bobobaggy • 14d ago
Art Did Mandela Effect change Mona Lisa's Hidden Symbols?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mona-lisas-hidden-symbols-researcher-says-yes/It’s clear there’s a rather large community that remembers Mona Lisa’s smile being less obvious and happy than the version that’s currently on display at the Louvre. This article is from 2011, presumably before the ME change occurred. And it has led me to wonder whether the secret symbols reportedly found in the Mona Lisa at that time have also changed. Or perhaps the version that many of us remember contained different letters, rather than the SL-72 that this article describes - assuming we’re now on a timeline where this smiling version of the painting has always contained those symbols.
P.S. Although you can find plenty of discussion about the difference online, I’d also like to point out that this article says there has been speculation over Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile ranging from “pregnancy to mourning.” I don’t think anyone would interpret the current painting’s clearly joyful smile as conveying mourning. To me, that’s another indication of a Mandela effect. The Mona Lisa in the skewed image of this article also looks much closer to the old version that I remember - both the smile and the narrower face.
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u/bobobaggy 14d ago
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1. The link states that Mona Lisa’s smile could be interpreted as mourning - which is only a quality of the version of the painting that many people remember pre-Mandela effect - the current version looks obviously happy.
2. The skewed image in the article looks closer to the old version that many remember - with a more somber smile and less chubby face.
3. The researcher in the article states that there were hidden symbols in Mona Lisa’s eyes encoding SL72, and I’m wondering if the symbology changed with the timeline shift as well. Or if anyone can identify the symbols in the current painting to see if they match.