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You mean a mandala effect. A lot of people thought it was Mandela Effect, but it's been the mandala effect all along.

Not on my timeline, this has been the name the whole time.

what does that even mean

"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect

They retconned it as a typo for antipode in their headcanon.

It means you were only interested in apartheid when it was on TV a lot, you completely missed the ending (and all news involving South Africa for the next 30 years), then you get all mystical about it because you think you're psychic. "I'm not dumb, actually reality changed..."

Meanwhile, a bunch of other people who also don't pay attention to world events refer to this woman's ignorance as if it means something because the name that the psychic made up to describe it sounds scientifiky.

A Mandela effect is when it happens to a large group of people. I’m afraid you’re alone in this.

Only when large group of people die and have to be switched to another timeline via quantum immortality.

This person died independently. Welcome to our timeline!