How does the Mandela Effect work?

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Sitting here, eating lil *Chick*-fil-A, and I know, know, KNOW it used to be **Chic**-fil-A. The company has claimed it never was. Of course I’m not the only one to recognize it, and it got me thinking…how in the hell does *that* work? What’s the reasoning behind it?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Faulty memory and delusions of the past.

Human memory is faulty. You eat your chicken sandwich. In an hour you’ll remember eating it, then maybe you’ll remember it again later.

At each instance you’re not remembering the chicken sandwich, you’re just remembering your memory of it. You save and overwrite your memory each time.

That memory is subject to change. Maybe one time you see a misspelling or something else, so you incorporate it into your memory, and now you have a false memory.

Maybe you saw someone spell Chick-fil-A incorrectly, incorporated that into you memory, now you’re remembering an incorrect memory, and due to bad memory, paranoia over conspiracies, age, and delusion, you think the name changed or you’re going insane.

Since the internet allows insane people across the world to congregate, then a bunch of people can think they’re collectively insane, therefore a conspiracy, therefore <insert whatever theory it is>.

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