r/mildyinteresting • u/Ebonystealth • Mar 24 '26

science savvy 🧬 The left side represents the most common false memories from the Mandela Effect—a psychological phenomenon where large groups of people share the same vivid but incorrect recollection.

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u/rraattbbooyy Mar 24 '26

I know what I saw.

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u/Oh-Deer1280 Mar 24 '26

All my merch has that spelling on it too 🤷‍♀️

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u/Fiduciary-Litigator Mar 26 '26

Link. Show it. You're lying.

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u/saintjonah Mar 28 '26

How much merch would you say you have?

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u/Jokull2500 Mar 25 '26

Bootleg

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u/Any-Object-2165 Mar 25 '26

I KNEW IT

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u/PM-ME-YOUR-NIPNOPS Mar 28 '26

Buddy please. It's photo shopped

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u/No_Training6751 Mar 25 '26

I remember as a kid our teacher told us the it would be pronounced stine (no, not steen), if it was spelled with an “e”. And that memory brought me out of the Mandela effect.

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u/robophile-ta Mar 25 '26

Yeah that's correct for German words with an ei but for some reason a lot of people say steen, which would be with an ie in German. Don't really know why, maybe there was confusion or it's different in another language? I know English is usually the opposite with how it pronounces them so it could just be that

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u/monster_on_holiday Mar 25 '26

It’s mostly about which wave shaped American English: 1700s–1800s Germans → agrarian, spread out, assimilated, influence faded

Late 1800s–1900s Eastern European Jewish immigrants (Yiddish speakers) → concentrated in cities, more visible, more impact on AE

So their pronunciations stuck. That’s why you get “Ep-steen” instead of the German “Ep-shtine". It’s about visibility and reinforcement, not population size or how early they immigrated.

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u/mr_christer Mar 25 '26

Full on German pronunciation is actually "shtine"

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u/btempp Mar 25 '26

That is so obviously photoshopped after the t that it’s pissing me off

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u/Riversntallbuildings Mar 28 '26

I still have books from my childhood with that spelling as well.

Part of me wonders if the transition wasn’t to screw the original author/family out of royalties.

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u/hardFraughtBattle Mar 25 '26

But what you saw wasn't what was there.

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u/Fiduciary-Litigator Mar 26 '26

This isn't your photo. This is fake.

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u/rraattbbooyy Mar 26 '26

It’s not my photo, I found it here. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1TxfpW3CbZ/

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u/Fiduciary-Litigator Mar 26 '26

Exactly. It's fake and you're spreading fb bullshit as real. Wtf is wrong with you? Why would you do that?

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u/Jokull2500 Mar 25 '26

Bootleg

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u/rraattbbooyy Mar 25 '26

Doesn’t matter. The point is there is no Mandela Effect when something exists. The recollection is vivid, but not incorrect.

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u/Awkward_Proof_1274 Mar 25 '26

Bootlegs with misspellings didn't exist on a widespread enough scale for the mandela effect to make sense for that reasoning. That image is also photoshopped