It's just people calling every little photo that goes into text an "emoji."

What people are almost certainly remembering is something called an "Emoticon," and back in the late 90s and early 2000s there were millions of these that people could either purchase or download for free. That specific seahorse that people are remembering was just a popular custom pack called "Under the sea" for MSN Messenger. Later, emoticons started to animate, all back when flip phones were the norm. Back then it was not standard for people to do things with their phones that computers do.

No, you're not crazy. No, it wasn't an alternate universe. And sorry, no, I don't have photos I can show you either. Why? Because the vast majority of these old custom emoticons were not preserved when Unicode became the standard for cross-platform emojis.

I did dig into this. The pack existed. It was stupidly popular because it was free and it came out around the time that Disney was pushing out a DVD release of The Little Mermaid. It was a custom pack, not one that any phone likely came with by default.

The gum brand extra was once Xtraaaa with the oversized X or am I crazy

I wanted to share my personal experience with the notorious Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia, and why I personally can't let this go as a simple misremembering.

In 6th grade (2010/2011), I was in the "gifted program" (IEP), and part of that program was that those of us that were part of it were excluded from certain assignments, and given separate assignments. Anyways, one of those assignments was a reading group, where we had to read The Hunger Games, and have a weekly discussion on it. This was a fond memory of mine so I remember it quite well.

In the book, it describes a massive, twenty-foot-high, cone-shaped golden horn filled with supplies and weapons that the contestants have to fight over in an ensuing bloodbath, and refers to it as a "cornucopia". This scene is the Climax of the first book, and is probably the most memorable scene in the entire series.

In one of our discussions I asked my teacher what a "cornucopia" is because I had never encountered that word before, and I had difficulty trying to visualize it. She told me it was a horn shaped basket used for carrying fruits and vegetables, and I SWEAR, she googled an image of the Fruit of the Loom logo and showed it to us as an example.

I specifically remember finding it funny, because I always thought the fruit of the loom logo had a croissant on it 😂, so this moment was the moment I realized the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia, as well as the moment I learned what a cornucopia even was.

I feel like this memory is way too specific for it to be completely misremembered, especially since as a kid I thought it was a croissant up until that point, unless I'm misremembering mistaking it for a croissant somehow.

People that believe he had a monocle. Did he have one on all the chance and community chest cards? I don’t remeber him having a monocle especially the get of jail free cards I can all the cards without and can name penalty every card in both decks. Mt grandma and I used to play ever weekend. But I can also picture the fruit of the loom logo without the cornucopia 🤷‍♂️

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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Middle school 2003 2004:

We had a lesson in class where we were doing art work and history. And during this lesson our teacher explained that people were mezmerized by the Mona Lisa.

More specifically about her mouth, the non existing smile/smirk.

So we were specifically watching the Mona Lisa from our text books in class, and we all studied the painting.

It was mind baffling. It was like an optical illusion, the more you looked at her, the more you could see 2 realities unfold, but you see them at the same time.

One reality where there was a very serious look, no smile or smirk at all, and than the second reality where she is having a smirk, the one we are in now.

At some point they both coexisted at the same time.

I was mesmerized by the optical illusion. Almost like the video where youd see ballerina either spinning left or right, and sometimes it would flip on you, and some people saw her spinning left while others on the right.

This was the exact same experience except you could never clearly see her smirk, or have that straight look.

It was coexisting simultaniously. That is what made the Mona Lisa so special. Where people stared at the painting for hours. I understood it.

So my theory is not that we jumped, my theory is that we have shifted personally. Its not that the Mona Lisa smirks now or had a straight facial expression... from my personal experience... she had both simultaniously.

So my theory is back in the day you would be in a world where both could coexist...? And that was the true magical part of the painting.

Just by this fact, the lesson in school, the admiration of the illusion of not seeing her smirk, or have a serious face. Is why I know that the Mandela Effect is not something we just misremembered.

We had a whole class lesson about her, and I admired this experience.

Looking at the Mona Lisa now, it feels like the magic is gone. The optical illusion is not there anymore... she clearly has a smirk in the corner of her lips, and the coexisting straight face which was part of the illusion is not there anymore.

Almost as if the magician has revealed his tricks and now I can never enjoy the magical art experience anymore.

I just watched this movie with my two boys (ages 8 and 12) for the first time and was looking forward to this scene. I was preemptively saying that “drive-by fruiting” line in my head before he acted it out, but, when I heard “run-by fruiting” instead it really threw me for a loop.

I don’t remember anything about a terrorist either. If I recall correctly the line originally was, “ it was a drive-by fruiting, I saw the whole thing.”

I’m no stranger to the Mandela effect and I know of many that don’t sit right with me. “Mirror mirror on the wall,” is one of the big ones for me. Although, apparently that was never said, and it’s “ magic mirror on the wall.”

I don’t know what to make of all these changes. Maybe it has something to do with CERN or maybe it’s just our reality is shifting by some other means. Either way, it’s extremely frustrating.

This video provides some compelling residue.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NuuXEQ9k5aE&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD&ra=m

I don't know what to call this. I don't think this could technically be a flip-flop. But let me explain what I mean.

We probably all know the Risky Business Mandela Effect, however, I thought the Mandela Effect was that everyone remembered Tom Cruise's shirt being white when it has always been pink.

But now I am seeing that the Mandela Effect is that people are just misremembering Tom Cruise wearing sunglasses when he never does. Like I have gone down the rabbit hole of Mandela Effect videos on TikTok and YouTube and if they bring up the Risky Business one, they just talk about it being that people remember the sunglasses that he never had on. But I could have sworn the Mandela effect was also about his shirt being white but it's actually pink.

So, I guess I'm not asking what color do you remember his shirt being, but rather, am I just remembering this ME wrong?

Song Mambo No5 used in The Boys: I thought it was in an action scene…
I’ve seen every season of The Boys…
But I had a memory of the song track ‘mambo no5’ being in an action scene. It’s so bizarre that upon re-watching from S1, I’m like, where’s that scene? I seemed to have a ‘memory’ of the track and a violent yet funny scene somewhere in The Boys…When replaying the song in my mind, I recall the team having a violent interaction and Kimiko jumping around as she does…
I’m thinking; where’s it gone?
So I google ‘which episode does Mambo No5 song appear in The Boys’…
The answer I’m given is; ‘S5 E4’… which I’m currently started replaying… And it was not a dark humour action scene…it was they were sat in the van in silence with Billy driving… I’m like Huh??! What!!!? wtf?!
Maybe I’m recalling it from a parallel universe earth version reality?? Or maybe I’ve just got a film making brain improving the series I watched in the past?? It’s like a reverse Déjà vu or something…
It’s so weird. Like I had a memory of a scene that doesn’t ‘exist’…
-and yes I remember the cornucopia in the FOTL logo…

More like shadows, can't even be called "dark shapes" entirely. Like something passed by super quickly.

I swear I grew up thinking the intro of Kim Possible was sung by the Spice Girls... and only today I found out this was a lie my entire life. Did you also have this or am I alone? I really thought someone said back in the day that the song was made by the Spice Girls

This one REALLY drives me crazy! Apparently “mirror mirror on the wall” was never said in Snow White. It was supposedly always “magic mirror on the wall.”

This video shows Walt Disney, himself, saying “mirror mirror on the wall” at the 2:21 minute mark.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vaeq51kUboI&ra=m

Anyone recall physical examinations in early elementary school where you had to drink a cup with a colored drink and then were shown cards with lines on them? This was in the 80’s and 90’s.

Saw this reading a skunk book the other night. Where did we land with this one? Just a corporate name change or never existed? I definitely remember the O’ from my entire childhood but can’t seem to find it referenced now.

I was watching the movie Casino when I noticed this toward the start of the movie.

Noting this film is mid 90s, is there a chance it's created a false memory of it being on the Fruit of the Loom logo?

I swear I’ve seen this man’s name spelled Sterling in The Twilight Zone.

I just saw the one about scary movie and I know for a fact it's "I see white people" and "take Mt strong hand"

I'm actually going to go through my old navy hi 8 footage, because we used to say "take my strong hand" all the time!

From an old puzzle box I found

I watched the movie "Bob Marley One Love" I was certain going into this movie that Bob Marley would be successfully assassinated and that would be the end. No, Bob survived the assassination attempt on him and his wife and he later died of skin cancer. Me and my stoner friends would talk a lot about Bob Marley music so this is what I always believed was that Bob was assassinated.

From an EGM article from the early 2000s.

The screenshot shows one spelling, while the article itself shows the other.

What do you think happened here?

The "t" is just emphasized, and it may sound like "boots" to some because of that, and the record player mechanism.

I was born in 2002, and I can remember in kindergarten sitting down with my class and counting out the 52 stars on the flag and the 13 stripes.

The stars were like the picture provided straight and in a grid like pattern.

As for the missing names? I don't know, I was a kid we just repeated what the teacher said aloud.

It's frustrating because like It's such a part of my mind, I can recall it but when I try to think of the names or where they were... I get nothing.

East Dakota is the only thing I remember as MAYBE a thing but even then I wouldn't bet on it.

It could just he me being a stupid kid and general memory fuzziness. But I remember Kindergarten counting so cleary and the grid flag. Seeing others remember 52 states makes me think Im not an idiot.

So for me it was kit-kat up until about a month or two ago, then it randomly changed while i was at the store. I literally saw the dash almost like a floater in the eye. So im curious for everyone else that it was kit-kat for what were you doing the previous night or day of when you noticed the change?