Now That the Mandela Effect Has Run It's Course, Here's an Idea for its Successor
Originally posted to Medium on November 2, 2022 (https://medium.com/@non-monetized_together/now-that-the-mandela-effect-craze-has-run-its-course-heres-an-idea-for-its-successor-e7f2980639bf?source=friends_link&sk=undefined)
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The magic of social media has demonstrated that many people misremember the same things when it comes to pop culture, history, geography, and advertising. This is now known as the Mandela Effect because a lot of people falsely remember former South African Prime Minister Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s.
When I first found out about the Mandela Effect, I was fascinated by how the smallest, most ordinary details could give you a weird, funny feeling. It was also fun to come up with explanations that made sense for each Mandela Effect example. But eventually, we ran out of examples and the trend fizzled out.
Well, I have an idea for a new Internet discussion topic that has the same appeal as the Mandela Effect. I call it the Mack Effect.
Like the Mandela Effect, the Mack Effect deals with facts about the world that just feel off. But while the Mandela Effect refers to things that don’t match up with people’s memory, the Mack Effect is when things don’t match up with something they feel is true.
Both effects make you feel like something has changed when nothing has changed at all. But with the Mandela Effect, there is a specific memory causing that. With the Mack Effect, it’s a sensation.
I named it the Mack Effect because to me, a good example of this is that the artist who sings “Return of the Mack” is [not](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReturnoftheMack) [named Mack Morrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReturnoftheMack).
Other examples could include:
Reno, Nevada being further west than L.A.
People seeming so dang cynical these days.
Biden being the first US president to be born in the Silent Generation (1928–1945).
Indonesia is the fourth most-populated country in the world.
What’s your favourite example of the Mack Effect?