Some of the people involved have said on social media it was a requirement. I didn’t see any evidence one way or the other.
TONS of countries were involved, including the US. This was, by any stretch of imagination, a shitty cowardly move.
I hope you guys are right and most people use it that way, and some small instances it’s kinda funny. But I fear the danger of being able to handwave away more important information as “it’s weird how our brains do that!” instead of crap, I need to pay more attention. Maybe a case by case thing I dunno.
Side note, I watched a video about how Mandela effect is maybe the most American concept ever. So many people kinda ignored/forgot that a guy won the Nobel Prize and was president of a major country for several years, or were never taught it because he’s black. Even more couldn’t be bothered to pay close enough attention to the spelling of a popular author’s name (also foreign). People would rather think that there is some supernatural mystic shared memory gap experience rather than believe we’re idiots.
I love the grouped comments. I scroll through the comments on once instance, then I reach the next one and you can genuinely see the shift in priorities between communities. It’s pretty cool
…the strange virus that began on a cruise ship has now spread…
… Man bit the flight attendant…
We’re in the zombie movie exposition News reel scene