Oh dear me. I just visited the Mandela Effect subreddit to read a post and comments about how "the sun used to be yellow, and now it's white," and I think a lot of these folks are not doing well.
If someone describes feeling like everyone, including their family and friends, is avoiding a topic and trying to deceive them, well... "scientists replaced the sun, and it's a conspiracy" is not the most obvious conclusion.
@artemis I was at the inaugural lecture of a new professor, and his presentation was about how our social relationship with children has changed and how this is evidenced in the visual dynamics in family photographs across that time. He built a whole edifice about the lack of emotions shown in early photography and the formality. I got to ask "Isn't that just because you had to sit still longer for old process cameras?" and the facilitator for the event literally said "No further questions"
@artemis most normal people have left during the reddit migration and because the meme faded away, and the ones that remain are those that hold on for deeply held beliefs.
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