Unless you are one of hundreds of people who misremembered the date, that’s not a Mandela effect.
Conspiracy-minded circles think that the Mandela Effect is actually because of universes in the multiverse merging or some nonsense, and so since this person knows “a fact” that it happened in 2004 for them, that means, to them, that they were in an alternate universe where it happened in 2004 and now they aren’t. Or something. And so, to them, that’s the Mandela Effect.
Of course as you said, the Mandela Effect is about the collective misremembering of facts, not one person misremembering something, but since the tin-foil community has co-opted the effect, it means whatever they feel like I guess.
Fun fact, a lot of the way the Mandela Effect works is easily explained by priming. Most videos on the subject will say, eg, “This logo always looked like this, right? But no, it actually looked like this!”
If you’d asked people blindly to describe that name or logo or event or whatever, far fewer are going to exhibit the effect. But since they were primed with the false information, and human memory is awful, they “remember” the incorrect version.
Unless you are one of hundreds of people who misremembered the date, that’s not a Mandela effect.
Conspiracy-minded circles think that the Mandela Effect is actually because of universes in the multiverse merging or some nonsense, and so since this person knows “a fact” that it happened in 2004 for them, that means, to them, that they were in an alternate universe where it happened in 2004 and now they aren’t. Or something. And so, to them, that’s the Mandela Effect.
Of course as you said, the Mandela Effect is about the collective misremembering of facts, not one person misremembering something, but since the tin-foil community has co-opted the effect, it means whatever they feel like I guess.
Fun fact, a lot of the way the Mandela Effect works is easily explained by priming. Most videos on the subject will say, eg, “This logo always looked like this, right? But no, it actually looked like this!”
If you’d asked people blindly to describe that name or logo or event or whatever, far fewer are going to exhibit the effect. But since they were primed with the false information, and human memory is awful, they “remember” the incorrect version.