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Maybe 10-11 years ago, when she’d emerged with a totally new face, people were asking her on Instagram what she’d had done and she made a post with basically an itemized list including the specific kind of laser etc.
Later, she deleted that post and just said she was exercising and eating lots of Japanese sweet potatoes to build collagen and I was never able to find screenshots of that original post. Kind of a shame! I found it refreshing for a celebrity to actually admit to the amount of work and money it takes to look the way they do.
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We have to admit that pop culture and all things related to celebrities can sometimes feel quite overwhelming. There's always something happening everywhere, all at once (yes, that’s a nod to the 2022 film starring Michelle Yeoh) – from the South Korean entertainment scene to Hollywood and beyond.
In fact, such overwhelmingness is a reason why phenomena like the Mandela Effect are a thing. If you don’t know what it is, in a nutshell, it’s false memories that a group of people believe. The focus of this effect can be something rather insignificant, like people fully believing that the children’s book "The Berenstain Bears" was actually called "The Berenstein Bears."
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This was way before her feminism era, but I cannot find it anymore.
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At the same time, it can also be used to fuel conspiracy theories. Granted, some theories can also be kind of insignificant, but others can be dangerous, as they might seek to disrupt the political, societal, or any other climate. So, we probably don’t have to tell you how people misremembering things can be used to fuel conspiracy theories even further.
But that’s a complex topic to discuss. We would much rather indulge in something a little lighter today, like how the Mandela effect and other forms of misremembering can disrupt people’s knowledge of pop culture.
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At this point I feel like I've made it up. I've never seen it since and no one I've talked to has seen it but I just found it so hilarious.
Today’s list is kind of on point here. It’s full of moments related to various celebrities or other pop culture phenomena that netizens in this online thread swear they remember happening. Only the thing is that they cannot find any proper proof online that it did, which, as you imagine, is very frustrating.
What makes all of them even more interesting (or we should say funnier) is how random all of them are. In here, you’ll find both Shrek fireworks and a Jerry Springer cheating scandal – a little bit of everything. Just shows how a variety of things can confuse people.
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At the same time, we can’t be guaranteed that all of these people are simply misremembering things (of course, some of them likely are). There’s also a thing called “lost media.” As the name suggests, it's a piece of media that is believed to no longer exist in any format (or at least it cannot be located).
While usually it refers to things like movies, TV, radio broadcasts, video games, and music, it’s likely that some celebrity rumors can become lost too.
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Of course, her interview confronting him later about it is easy to find still…!
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This was years ago and it tainted my opinion of Mary Berry when I first watched Bake Off, and when I met my wife she ALSO had the exact same memory. Only for us to both try to find it and… absolutely nothing.
It all depends on how widespread they were. For instance, if the rumor was just discussed on some rather unknown forum, where only a handful of people interacted with it and a celebrity never addressed it publicly, odds are not many people are going to remember it. Or maybe it wasn’t even true, just some lies started by someone hoping it would take off; some people love doing that.
Either way, whether the pop culture moments in this list are made up, lost media, or the Mandela effect, it doesn’t change the fact that folks just can’t find proof of any of them. But maybe you can? If you do, just share with us in the comments!
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It was such a testament to that time period where everyone looked like bobble heads and that was the ideal body.
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