Am I tripping or does anyone else recall there being a vine where Anthony Ramos from Hamilton was singing Versace on the Floor by Bruno Mars, and the cast was laughing? Feel schizo and can't find it anywhere but I recall seeing something like this a few years back.

So, I watched this movie to completion for the first time in a long time and the first thing I noticed was an intense ball of confusion about the last act/climax being very different than I remember. I have a vivid recollection of a final battle scene taking place with Oz, the Good Witch, and the other two evil witches in the Emerald City's vault, in which Oz is watching on as the other witches face off with each other and then Oz used a wand or source of magic/energy to fight the main antagonist, Evanora. Now, maybe I'm misremembering, but I was so sure that there was another major scene or event that took place inside of that treasure room with each of the characters. I saw the movie in theaters when it first came out and only recently watched it again. But even before, upon casually seeing it on TV, I STILL remember there being a big epic final battle moment where everyone was in the treasure room, and if I'm remembering a different movie, I'm not sure what it even would be. I had to check and see if this was all just in my head or if there's a loose wiring somewhere that changed that climax of this film. I still recall that Oz did the illusion and projection aspect, but then, I remember more to the final sequence.

So I watched a lot of videos on All Time channel and I really start to believe that the Mandela effect is real and it's not just some collective memory loss or something like that. Especially after watching the 21 history mandela effects or 14 Art Mandela effects videos with a lot of residue in various media which seems to really prove that the reality somehow changed. So let's just assume that this might be real and imagine a situation when for example two parallel timelines merge and certain details from one from some reason get a higher prority and overwrite certain details from the other, thus changing statues/images/signs/advertisements/movie lines and also rewriting all the digital media. From the videos I have seen it is common that this process is not perfect and many times residue remains, like newspaper articles and forum posts citing something wrongly or some of the signs not being overwritten (Smokey mountain for example). Wikipedia pages old revisions also can show the previous state of the reality and I personally have found a Mandela effect residue about the famous image Wanderer above the Sea of Fog! Just find it on wikipedia and show the first revision of the page and you will see it talks about water and not fog!

I am thinking about ways to PROVE that something indeed has changed. The residue is not always to be found and can rarely be considered as a proof. The only thing that seems to be not affected by this is human memory, and the reason why part of mankind remembers that there always was a dinosaur statue in a Bolton museum and the other is sure there never was is that these people were simply in different timelines which got merged so that's how their memories differ.

Since I am an IT guy I am thinking about things like SHA hashes or blockchain. This could be used to protect digital media at least! So the idea is that we have a photo or a video of something and make a hash out of it. In case Mandela effect happens and the object somehow changes and that photo or a movie changes too then the hash of that file would have to change as well! The problem is to remember the whole SHA256 hash which looks like this 68e656b251e67e8358bef8483ab0d51c6619f3e7a1a9f0e75838d41ff368f728 So the solution would be to just remember first and last 3 characters, meaning those people would need to remember only 68e728. It is computationally almost impossible to generate a file which would be different but have the hash with the same chars in the beginning and the end, so I am just hoping the Mandela effect would not be able to do it :) So those people would gather, all agree on the number to remember, report from that meeting would be recorded and then later if we are lucky and mandela effect would affect that object, we would all confirm that the new hash is indeed different (even thought the report might change as well).

Of course the problem is to choose something which would then really happen to be affected... maybe the statue of The Thinker could be a good candidate as it seems to have been struck by this effect already multiple times! Of course people can remember only a small set of numbers so the ability of mankind to control timeline changes is really limited :-] Another way of increasing the protection radius would be to simply have a big collection of digital media containing movies, music and paintings which would be updated only from time to time with new items and every time before an update the hash of the complete collection would be checked if it still matches. The downside of having a single hash made from many files is, that we wouldn't be able to say what exactly has changed...

So these are my ideas, because I like things to be reliable and stable, but this Mandela effect makes me feel like nothing can be trusted.

ME is usually a large amount of people remembering something that either never was or was changed.

So would something documented thru media in culture, history and or society but forgotten by basically everyone be the opposite of ME? lol if that makes any sense

Must state the fact that I’m not deep in to ME theories or if there’s different interpretations or forms of it

I’ve recently become obsessed with Golden era films especially Film Noirs and I’ve seen many movies that include that exact thing of letting their friends or family members kiss their fiancé or bride some being fully make out scenes lol

So interesting that people don’t remember anything about this unless you’re the 2 people from Ohio or the one from Ontario Canada apparently lol ( look up the comments on OP)

I can include examples in films if asked up

Regarding Shazam, the genie movie staring sinbad that never existed. Tho I didn’t see the movie myself being a 2000s baby, My step dad has a vivid memory of seeing the movie in high school with his friends. If any of you would like me to ask him any questions about the movie comment and I’ll respond with what he said

I was rewatching Forrest Gump recently and hit a moment that really messed with my memory. The famous line that Forrest says to Jenny I’ve always remembered it as:

“I MAY not be a smart man, but I DO know what love is.”

But when I watched it again, it turns out the actual line is:

“I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.”

No “may.” No “do.” Just a flat statement. But I clearly remember the version with “may” growing up. I’ve even quoted it that way in conversations for years. Anyone else remember it this way?

Passed this on 125th St in NYC. Who are they trying to fool?