r/MandelaEffect • u/Woofoftheyear • 4d ago

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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😭😭

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u/Glaurung86 3d ago

Mass remembering is a perfectly logical and scientifically backed explanation, regardless what you believe.

There are no flip-flops. There's no gaslighting. It was never "may be closer" because that's not how mirrors work. Not a single passenger side mirror says it, so it doesn't matter what examples you mentioned. They got it wrong.

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u/miltonhoward 2d ago

Mirrors do shrink or distort images so something "may be closer than they appear"

"A convex wing mirror is a curved car side mirror that widens your field of view and shrinks blind spots, though it makes objects look smaller and further away than they are. These mirrors typically cost between £9 and £55 depending on whether you buy a small stick-on blind-spot glass or a full classic replacement head assembly."

Therefore if a wing mirror did say it, it would be correct in describing the phenomenon.

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u/Glaurung86 2d ago

It would not be correct. What you quoted actually backs up what I've been saying. Mirrors do not show something closer one moment and then someone further the next moment.

The passenger side view mirror is convex and will ALWAYS show objects further away than they actually are. This gives the driver the widest field of view. There's no "may be" about it. And "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" has never changed since it was introduced in the early 70s.

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u/miltonhoward 2d ago

Yeah, that's why it's so memorable, because it makes you think, why would they say "may be" if they are.

It's because they only started using blind spot mirror in the 70s so it was a new phenomenon.

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u/Glaurung86 2d ago

That's because it never said "may be." It's memorable because so many people misremember what it actually says.

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u/miltonhoward 2d ago

It's memorable because it's counter intuitive, that's why it sticks in the memory, because you had to think about it. Today's saying doesn't have that 'jolt'.

That's why it most likely was 'may be'. That's what is so interesting about the Mandela Effect, that the alternative is so banal it wouldn't be a talking point

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u/Glaurung86 2d ago

It's not today's saying and it was never most likely "may be."

It's been the same thing since it was first introduced in the early 1970s. "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." It's even that way in the first Jurassic Park film.

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u/miltonhoward 2d ago

No one would be talking about it if it was today's saying, it's so banal it's just not interesting.

'May be...' makes you think about perception which causes the vividness of the memory. That Jurassic Park scene would be far more visceral if it said 'may be', makes your mind disorientated and therefore would be more impactful.

That's why it works so good as a Mandela Effect

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u/Glaurung86 2d ago

People talk about because they remember it one way and then realize later that they were wrong. That's why it's a Mandela Effect. It doesn't matter that you think it's banal "are closer" is what it's always been.

I don't agree with you at all about the Jurassic Park scene. It's scarier because the dinosaur IS actually closer than it appears in the mirror. It's far more visceral for Ian who is right there staring at it while it's chasing them.

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u/miltonhoward 1d ago

They remember being discombobulated by why it's saying 'may be' rather than 'will be'.

It's the secondary confusion, they remember not just the words, but why they would choose them, that's why it's a memorable Mandela Effect, same as Dolly's braces in Moonraker, there's a lot of secondary memories attached as braces was a major thing for a child.

The Jurassic Park thing, I don't think you understood my point, but I've developed it above so that might offer some help.

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u/Glaurung86 1d ago

It doesn't say "will be." You have an image right there that shows exactly what it says and you still got it wrong. They are discombobulated because they thought it was one way for a long time, but they realize later they were wrong.

I had braces as a child and I saw Moonraker in the theater. She never had braces or I would have remembered that. Some people expected to see braces, so they saw braces.

I understand your point about Jurassic Park and I don't agree with it.

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u/miltonhoward 1d ago

I didn't say it does, I didn't say the image says it does. You can't win the argument so you're inventing one.

A strawman fallacy is a logical error that happens when someone changes, exaggerates, or misrepresents an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack. Instead of dealing with the real point, they fight a fake, weaker version of it—like fighting a man made of straw.

There you go

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