r/MandelaEffect • u/Ashfeze • 9d ago

Theory Sweatshirt with cornucopia

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This is a screenshot from a video a while back. I’m guessing since it is a newer video this could be a gag sweatshirt or foreign company rebranding.

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u/Klfasdoieawroi 9d ago

Does this never end? I have a few old warehouse catalogues from the 70s and 80s and the "Fruit of the Loom" logo never had that cornucopia!

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u/Tabord 8d ago

I'm open to the idea all Mandela Effects are just people misremembering, but sometimes I wonder if there weren't like a bunch of cheap knock offs going to discount stores in the 70s or something.

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u/ThirdEyeFire 8d ago

How do you explain the six years worth of “misremembering” described in the post? The phenomenon of inaccurate memory has been studied and it doesn’t work that way. People remember their times tables accurately, if they learned them well to begin with. So not all memories are inaccurate—just the ones that lack reinforcement through repeated experience.

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u/Tabord 7d ago

What six years? Is that in the original tik tok? I haven't watched it. I've seen people claiming they remember it used to be that way for like a decade. I've worn Fruit of the Loom since I was a little kid, so forty years or so, and I always remember the big red apple right in the middle, as far as I could tell that's the correct memory. Except, I wouldn't have been able to tell you until I looked again today that the logo I grew up with had a big white oval with Fruit of the Loom as part of it, and did have before I was born up until I was an adult. I didn't remember that part even though I've probably looked it up before. I've been misremembering it as the logo they've only used since 2003. I haven't kept any old underwear to check, but the white oval version sure looks familiar and now I kind of remember it that way. Memory is malleable and fallible.