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Edition Felipe van Deursen
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NELSON MANDRAKE
Fiona Broome, a researcher of supernatural phenomena, believed that Nelson Mandela, one of the most important people of the 20th century, had died during the 1980s, in prison. Except it was 2010 and he was still alive. It could just be a mental confusion, a mere forgetfulness. But then things got complicated.
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BRAINWASH
In conversations with others at a nerd convention, Broome realized that many people also believed that the South African leader had died in the 1980s. At the same event, she found more trivial examples: people remembered episodes of Star Trek that never existed! Broome then created the theory of It is made Mandela
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THOUSAND WORLDS
In her many searches, she came across two frightening theories. One considered the existence of parallel universes, while the other addressed a reality in which we all live in one big, inescapable computer simulation (sort of like in Matrix). Both theories corroborated the thesis of the It is made Mandela
A FOOT IN EVERY CANOE
According to the theory of the Multiverse, we move from one universe to another without realizing it, and everyday events happen in different ways in each of these realities. So, Nelson Mandela could have even died in the 80s in another world
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IT’S ALL LIE
The second theory speculates that humanity is just a set of various computational tests carried out by unknown entities – or by the machines that would have created us. These missing memories would be nothing more than digital glitches – a bug in the matrix, so to speak. According to celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, there is a 50% chance that we are living in a simulation.
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THERE IS TEXT
In recent years, the theory of It is made Mandela gained a lot of traction on the internet. On the Reddit site, there is a subforum with more than 40 thousand people registered. There, they share stories, debate ideas and are impressed with the dimension of It is made in everyone’s life. Since 2015, searches on Google have multiplied by ten
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“FILMING, I ALSO SAW IT!”
One of the most emblematic cases is a film called shazaam, starring American comedian Sinbad. Many Reddit users swear they watched it. Internet searches reveal posters and promotional images for the film
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Psychology helps explain the phenomenon
- Nelson Mandelawho was imprisoned between the 60s and 90s, died in 2013 and had one of the most publicized and talked about funerals in history
- The chance of living in a simulation is 50% because there is no way to prove that this is true or false. statistics question
- Multiverse theory focuses on the possibility of particles occupying two places at the same time. That is, if in this Universe you read ME and Mandela died, in another you can be an Eskimo and Mandela be alive. But it is still not possible to prove this
- The history of shazaam grew so big that Sinbad himself had to come forward and say no, that movie doesn’t exist.
- In pop culture, the It is made Mandela works like these wrong lyrics of music that become more famous than the original verses
- The most rational explanation for the theory is false memories, a phenomenon studied by psychology since the 1970s. This distorted information is related to something that actually happened. For example: in the year of the supposed release of shazaamformer basketball player Shaquille O’Neal starred in Kazaamwhose script was extremely similar to that of the film that never existed
CONSULTANCY Natalia Maria Aggio, PhD in Psychology from UFSCar (São Paulo)
SOURCES Vox, Reddit, Mandela Effect, Scientific American It is New States Man