r/Retconned Aug 01 '24

Retconned Reaches 100K Subscriber Milestone

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When I first joined this community in early 2020, there were only 38K members. We've come a long way in the past four and a half years since then, nearly tripling in size. At this point we're getting more comments (dunno about traffic) on many days than the main sub. And a couple of recent near-viral posts here have quietly surged us through the 100K mark just in the past few days. I think it's clear that a tipping point has been reached and we're now primed to start outpacing the main sub growth going forward.

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So what does that mean for the future of this community? Well that's where things get tricky. When a post favored by the Reddit algorithms suddenly garners 1000+ comnents, it makes modding quite difficult and time consuming... so I think it's especially important for folks who value the sanctity of our niche sandbox of exotic ideas to aggressively flag clear rule violations. Without our vigilant eyes, there's just no way they can adequately maintain the sub's standards of decorum on those more popular posts. I would also encourage our members to treat the newer arrivals with kid gloves because many are also new to this phenomenon and likely not aware of our unique rules and expected conduct. Set the example, and be patient. And flag everything else.

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Edit to add this friendly reminder: don't inadvertently risk your own good standing by engaging rule breakers too aggressively and/or getting drawn into contentious arguments.

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To the newer arrivals, welcome to the party and thanks for contributing to one of the most fascinating esoteric dialectics on all of Reddit. Please make sure to read and understand our rules, as they are strictly enforced. And ask lots of questions.... the regulars here are enthusiastic about sharing our evolving understanding of this perplexing and disconcerting phenomenon. We absolutely adore inquisitive minds and honest, respectful discourse. Contrary to what you might have heard, this is not a place where everyone is expected to agree and dissent is suppressed. Rather, we're a safe space for engaging in speculative ontology and brainstorming about things like simulationism, quantum mysticism, the multiverse, and even theistic prophesy. We just do it without being dismissive of each other.

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With all that said, congratulations Retconned! Let's attract the next 100K with the same principles and standards that made Retconned such a unique and special and desirable place to hang out. Let's rehash the old classic ME's for the newer audience. Let's bring them upto speed so they can lend their new perspectives to our knowledge base and help build a better understanding of these profound changes happening to our collective reality. I love my memory family here, and I'm happy to see it expanding. Thanks as always to the mods for their exhaustive efforts to keep this place copacetic, orderly, and safe. You guys deserve so much credit for all the success.


r/Retconned Sep 13 '22

*** IMPORTANT *** READ BEFORE POSTING

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13.Sep.22

Please be advised that while we have been rather lenient on religion and religion-based comments in this sub with regards to its relationship to MEs, it has recently been seen that some toxicity has begun creeping into the discussions.

If the conversations continue to devolve into toxic behavior, the comments will be treated similar to violation of Rule #10 and removed immediately.

Gentle reminder : Repeated violations of our rules will result in a permaban.


r/Retconned 11h ago

A whole event wiped from memory? Or false event inserted?

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This happened around 2020 but the event was even older. I was at a friends-old classmates house, we were talking about the past.

We were very close friends in high school.We are both same age, born 7 days apart and occasionally talk. We are now 37. As we were talking and remembering past funny times, he told me about an event I have no memory of.

Apparently, back in 2007, the summer after high school, I saw a flyer on a column inviting people to a "meditation talk" was going to take place. Now these are not rare, you may find these small posters all over, they are mostly about book reading events, small theatre shows or even philosophical circles.

He insists I picked this one off and told him , "Let's go there". I have no memory of this. It doesn't even sound like sth I'd do.I was studying about the occult since I was 15 and was very cautious of cults cause an older friend of mine had an awful experience with one.

I would never jump in a random occult session with strangers,even locals, unless I at least knew their background.

But that's where it gets weird. My friend remembers distinctly that, not only we went there, but all the details. A certain old beautiful building (still exists in my neighborhood but a family lives there), us both mingling among the people at first, two or three men in their 60s, 3-4 middle-aged women, and us, the only two 17-year-olds there. He remembers that we all sat in chairs in a circle, and they started a quite boring talk about meditation, ancient cultures, Christianity etc..but very mundane /superficial stuff you can read the very first week of your research.

He told me that I was getting kinda frustrated, I strongly disagreed with some of them, took the "stand" and expressed my opinions in front of everyone in a very assertive manner. They even showed me respect for this. I spoke quite a while, almost giving a "lecture" about meditation practices and other cultures. Even my friend was astounded by how much I knew, although he doesn't remember any details of what I said.
The thing is, I don't remember any of it.
I did not even have enough experience on the matter for a lengthy speech. I was not even an adult.
Challenging older people and "crushing" their gathering, or taking lead and speaking in front of them at the age of 17 would be extraordinary and I'd remember it for sure. I was never this extroverted person- plus, never to this day, have I attended any "seances" or meditation circles. You'd think I'd remember my very first time if it happened.

My friend told me that after I spoke, I told him "let's leave, I can't stand these people" or sth like that, and we left. I considered them "beginners and poor in understanding". I told him that we supposedly know more about meditation than the "old" people there. Again, this does not sound like me, I was very respectful especially to people with spiritual interests, even if I disagreed.

I tried to recall even one detail of this event, but zero. I finally was like " My friend, you must have seen it in a dream, no way I did all that and have no memory of it. This whole series of actions would have been completely out of character for me".

But he insisted and said it is very strange for me to have forgotten it, since he was 100% sure it happened.Even the clothes we wore that day.
We debated a lot on this and I called another friend who was there with us when I picked the flyer but did not come to the meeting. At first, he couldn't remember either (it was years ago after all) but shortly after he confirmed that I did pick the flyer and attended the meeting, I also told him my experience afterwards. He remembered less details than the other friend since he wasn't there, but he was sure I told him back in the day.

So, someone amongst us is misremembering, or this event was wiped completely of MY brain. I have very vivid memories of most events in my life, yet this one eludes me.

A year ago, I saw the owner outside, leaving this certain house.
I approached him and asked him if back in the day around 2007 this place was something else, like a book club or center for occassional talks. He assured me (I can't possibly tell if he was lying) that it has always been his familys' residential home and no such events ever took place there. It was just renovated a few years ago, but I remember that. I've lived in that neighborhood all my life, and I've never encountered groups of people/flyers or any similar stuff.

Since I've known about ME, I re-evaluate things every few months or years. I asked both my friends the same questions about this, a few weeks back. They remember the same story, so, regarding this event, our memories are unchanged at least since 2020.

Random memory suppression - but in a non-traumatic event? Does it make sense? Could there be some ME involved with me or my friends? Could both my friends remember an event that never actually took place? A memory update?


r/Retconned 11h ago

Classic Film & Television Mandela Effects Part 3

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r/Retconned 1d ago

Re-Upload | whistleblower says The earth was destroyed in 2012 *

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This is a re-upload of the same video that I removed from my channel, about a whistleblower who claimed to be a scientist behind the phenomenon millions people know as the Mandela effect *. He claimed the Real earth was destroyed in 2012 and that our consciousness was moved to a simulation copy to preserve the human database.

Notice - this is probably a work of larp, but I found evidence that backs up what the whistleblower said and coincides with other people's experience over the years as well.

This video is merely for creative purposes and for research purposes.

Audio tracks being used in this video consists of

  1. ( tubular bells from the movie " the exorcist "1973)
  2. ( The curse of chucky - Slow motion escape)

r/Retconned 1d ago

"The MYSTERY S , Mandela Effects, And The GATE Program" !¡!

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This is going to be weird and I wonder if anyone else had a similar experience ?!

Now let start off by mentioning the FACT that ever since I was a child, I have had HORRIBLE eyesight, and have ALWAYS needed glasses [Never wore them though].

As such, in school, I ALWAYS sat at the VERY FRONT DESK in any and all classes I attended, to this very day unless I wear my glasses !¡!

In any case in school we were doing a project in which we had a giant art folder that we colored and made designs for.

I basically cheated and traced a bunch of things like Goku and other trendy kids stuff.

Anyway, my very first encounter with "THE MYSTERY S" and me learning and doing it to my folder goes like this ~~~~

A kid sitting in the desk in front of me turned around from his desk and specifically taught me how to make the S and put it on my folder !¡!

Does anyone get the conundrum here ?

There wasn't a desk in front of me, I was in the front desk closest to the board.

I also, somehow and someway, never knew this kid, never talked to him before, and never talked to or saw him again .. . .

DUN ~ DUN ~ DUN !¡! [I am being serious 100% though and this is a true story]

OH, and BTW I was in the GATE Program for all of my childhood up and until around grade 7 or 8 may have been the last time they took me out of class !¡! [YES my memory is a BLACKHOLE VOID during those years]

That final class was also incidentally enough the first, last, and only place I ever saw or read a "BERENSTEIN BEARS" book !¡! [They read it to us actually] Which WAS SUPER F'ING WEIRD because I specifically remember them GOING OUT OF THEIR WAY TO SHOW US THE TITLE UP CLOSE !¡!

Yes I am part of the STEIN / STAIN Mandella effect "CLUB". I was also primed with many other Mandella effects besides that, which I have now come to the IRREFUTABLE & INCONTROVERTIBLE TRUTH [IMO] that WE [or at least I] was/were specifically exposed to these Mandella effects as just another part of the GATE Program. When I think about it now with HINDSIGHT each and every single one of the Mandella effects were specifically shown to me in what I now realize was a weird and deliberate manner !¡!

Fruit of the loom ? Why was I shown that, what was the purpose of showing me that ? Forced to sit down and Watch Star Wars ? Check ! Forced on a long drive in the front seat with the "Objects in the mirror MAY be closer than they appear", CHECK !¡! It is DEFINITELY & DEFINITIVELY part of the Program, possibly to see and test peoples belief in the permanence of their own memories !¡!

Finally, one more thing I feel compelled to add to this is that ~ One of the other final GATE classes I remember involved the drawing of and looking at Caricature portraits !¡! Which I now feel CONVINCED was what caused me to throughout my entire life [until only very recently] OBTAIN / ACQUIRE the AUTiSTiC Trait of ~ NOT looking at peoples eyes, observing their faces, caring about their reactions, etcetera. Which if we / I did have that ability I could have avoided a lot of pain !¡!

SUPER High functioning AUTISTE signing out !¡! As a final parting question ~ Were those of us in the GATE Program ALWAYS "NeuroDivergent" or did they force that onto us !?

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r/Retconned 2d ago

Had anyone ever heard of the animal "Patagonian Mara" before?

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First time in my 3 decades of this life that i've ever heard of this adorable little animal. Felt a super strange feeling when I came across this post... exactly the same when I experienced previous retcons/Mandela effects. Just wanted to share to see others thoughts.

The post -> https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/1w1zlmk/my_pretty_girl_playing_in_the_tall_grass/

According to the OP - they're apparently called the Patagonian Mara (or Patagonian Cava/Hare). Theyre native to Argentina and related to Capybaras and Guinnea Pigs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_mara

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/patagonian-mara

Blew my mind. Gotta be one of the cutest rodents I've ever seen!

(If this does not fit the sub, mods please delete.)


r/Retconned 2d ago

Fruit + Cornucopia = Fruitopia? (It's a Mandala)

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r/Retconned 3d ago

School of Rock (2003)

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What is Jack Black wearing in the opening scene before he dives off the stage. I remember a shirt and now it's a button up with red tassels.


r/Retconned 4d ago

Bible Changes

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I was just thinking about the bible changes and I was thinking why are there so many changes to the bible of all things, I mean it's practically a different book now, almost all of it has been changed if not all of it

Out of all the Mandela effects don't you think this one is the one of the strangest ones

It makes you think who or whatever is behind the Mandela effect must really hate the bible for some reason


r/Retconned 5d ago

Tim Curry just died yesterday

44 Upvotes

Guys please I feel like I am crazy - didn't he actually die years ago??? Is there anyone else experiencing the same retcon?


r/Retconned 5d ago

Monocle

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NCIS Season 20 Episode 8

Random: “She thinks the Monopoly man’s monocle is sexy”.

My 72 year old mother never flinched but I looked right up at the tv with question on my face. I thought he didn’t have one.. so THEY say. Hmmm

He ALWAYS had one!

NCIS writers know!!


r/Retconned 4d ago

Dora movie

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Who is the mom in the Dora and the Lost City of Gold?

57 votes, 1d ago
13 Eva Longoria
11 Gina Rodriguez
33 Idk

r/Retconned 5d ago

Severe deja vu lately

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Anyone else have sudden deja vu lately? I very rarely get deja vu anymore, and last time i had it was almost a year ago. But just today I had a really hard hit of deja vu all of a sudden and it felt like someone backhanded me when I had it. Just felt like a "Right place right time" sort of thing.

But also has me a bit worried, because last few times I've had deja vu were always right before some big drastic change in my life. So bit worried some drama or big event might be happening soon.


r/Retconned 6d ago

Uncle's sister died in different circumstances than previously known (New Personal ME)

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One of the common themes I've noticed over the years reading here and on the GitM sub is that sometimes routine breaks can lead to reality shifts... like by changing your routine you trip up the universe and something winds up changing about reality itself. The bigger the routine change, the bigger the ME.

On Monday this week, I took the day off from work (and I don't take many days off, so that is already a routine change) and I drove 135 miles to visit with some aunts who were about as close to where I live as they're going to be for the next several years (so it was a rare opportunity to go visit with them). So I varied from my normal routine by taking PTO, and then I drove a substantial distance. This is my hypothesis anyway. Knowing this kind of thing seems to be a common factor in "reality breaks" I was actually kind of on the lookout for something that may be different.

I found it right away. One of my aunts has a late husband and I was really close to him when he was alive. He was more of a dad to me than my actual dad. I grew up with him around most of the time and I knew pretty much everything about him.

That uncle had a sister (we'll call her "Dee") that I know passed away in 1979 from a car accident. I never met her, she died before my uncle started dating my aunt, but not much before it, so I heard all about this as a kid. It was tragic, she was only 23, a drunk driver crossed the center line and in the resulting head-on collision she was killed instantly. This was canon, I remember seeing the newspaper clipping my uncle had kept and the heart-wrenching stories told about the event, and how lucky nobody else had been in the car with her (it could have been 3 of her friends along with her as well).

Well on Monday this week, while I was at my aunt's apartment, I was going through some old photos had and I ran across a photo I had never seen before, of Dee in a wedding dress. I was like "Wait.... whaaaaaat??? Dee was married? How did I never know this?"

My aunt said "Yes, and she was 5 months pregnant when she died; they had found out it was a boy and had already decided to name him 'Nathan', that's why your uncle and I decided to name your cousin Nathan when he was born. It was after his late sister's unborn son."

I was stunned by this, all of that was totally different from everything I had known. Apparently she was married, and no longer alone in the car (it was being driven not by her now, but by her husband I had never heard of?), and also had an unborn child killed in the same accident?

When I got home (after driving 135 miles back from my visit) I did some research online and discovered the same news article my late uncle had always kept about the accident, and now it was completely different. It now mentioned the husband who was driving (who survived), it mentioned her unborn infant that also died in the crash, etc. None of that was in the story before, nobody had ever talked about any of it, Dee had been single when she died in that accident.

There is even a grave for the infant now. Right next to hers. I found it on "Find A Grave". That was never there before either. I visited that cemetery with my uncle several times while he was still alive and there was never an infant grave next to Dee's, but now there is.

You have to understand... this is not stuff I would not have known. I lived with this aunt and uncle as a teen. I've been on long road trips with them, uncle used to take me hunting, he taught me to shoot, etc. I KNOW Dee was never married before she died. This is not how it happened. There is no way I would not have known that. I'd seen all the old photos of her and this wedding pic was the first one of that kind I'd ever seen in my life, and I was very familiar with the circumstances of her death, because my uncle processed her death in real time over the first few years I knew him.

TL;DR, uncle's late sister killed in a car accident suddenly now was married too and had a husband (who lived) and an unborn child (who didn't) in that accident and there is now a grave that was never there before for said late child.

Make a big change in your routine, and reality details change accordingly. I got nothin'.


r/Retconned 7d ago

where you go when you sleep

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dreaming. sleeping . the word alone let you know must be some relax to reach sleep and even more to dream but where we go when we sleep. so many talk bout out of body feeling and how hard its to wake up when hit that deep sleep. deep sleep dont last long but when you in it you are in it. slopping coming out your mouth science say that stage you half dead so unconscious maybe you can see the light people talking about. and what is this light.? you hear different people from all over different regions saying the same thing which means must be true right? is this proof we not in our bodies . some say you have a spiritual life line that floats towards the sky as the soul never rest just the body needs rest the soul is pure energy. is this right? and the reason you hard for you to wake is you out from your body when you come to a complete rest you can go into this astro plane. some say lucid dreaming. for others not aware or dont believe cus you never been to a deep sleep before and learn to let all things go let your soul float away. think bout those times you was really sleep. dont it feel like you just came back in your body. where you been. you have no clue of time was you sleep for an hour or few minutes cant tell till you look at a clock. make you think in that state is time even real. who knows but deep sleep is good . so good your body crys for it. maybe your that soul ready for that journey


r/Retconned 7d ago

Classic Film & Television Mandela Effects Part 2

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r/Retconned 7d ago

Robert Menzies fails to ban the Communist Party of Australia

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I always remembered that Australia had banned the communist party during some time in the cold war, which reduced its popularity to the point of having next to no influence whatsoever.

Now, it appears that he had failed to do so, and that the referendum and attempt was struck down democratically, and by the court, a 49.44% v 50.56% defeat of voting.

Regardless, it appears that the outcome remained roughly identical; it had an inverse kind of butterfly effect, where the consequences did not seem to matter.

The time I remembered this was from back before 2016.


r/Retconned 8d ago

Time starting to speed up crazy fast again

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Anyone else noticing this? Seems like the last week just flew by like it was only a single day. But time seems like its speeding up a lot quicker than it was before.


r/Retconned 8d ago

Mandela’s death in prison

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I am really surprised that Death of Mandela in prison, namesake of Mandela Effect, is not discussed any more in these chatrooms. That was the original Mandela Effect. Any person like me, who has experienced watching the news and reading articles about Nelson Mandela’s death in prison in 1985 at the time(I was 18 years old by then) and then a couple of years later(in 1989) finding out that he was still alive and as if as a “proof” of his survival, would be released from the prison, this was the defining event of a lifetime.

He was definitely dead once, but now he was alive. No physical proof of his death was around except people who knew he was dead. It was a complete timeline shift.

I experienced other ME’s as well. But Mandela’s Death in prison was qualitatively different than all others.

I do wish it will be discussed more.


r/Retconned 8d ago

Mandela Effect reference in Apple TV's Dark Matter ?

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For those who haven't watched it, Dark Matter is a series about a scientist who gets kidnapped by another version of himself from a parallel universe where he is sent and then tries to get back home.

So I'm not sure if this scene is a reference to the Mandela Effect regarding Froot/Fruit loops but I find it funny that he is eating this cereal considering the plot of the show

I'd be curious if you noticed other references in the show


r/Retconned 8d ago

TiK ToK - Kesha "Hey lil girl"

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Please tell me i am not crazy, I have always heard Diddy say "Hey lil girl" and not "Hey what up girl?" in the song, before I even knew what he did.


r/Retconned 10d ago

Sex and/in the City was the last broadcast in the US on analogue TV

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Last Day of Analog TV broadcast - June 12,2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llYpxZ-YSN4

Just before the digital age. Maybe this is why it is subject to a Mandela Effect.


r/Retconned 11d ago

Fruit of the Loom - has this variation been posted before? [OC]

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Somewhere btwn a full cornucopia and NO cornucopia (2nd pic)? Personally, my timeline remembers a full cornucopia (born 1989), so it was slightly jarring thrifting a sweater with no cornucopia but still with some brown behind the fruits (but not full green leaves?). Apologies if this has been posted before 😊


r/Retconned 11d ago

Since when does Jay-Z spell his name with an umlaut??

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On all social platforms his name is spelled JAŸ-Z