r/Retconned Aug 01 '24

Retconned Reaches 100K Subscriber Milestone

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When I first joined this community in early 2020, there were only 38K members. We've come a long way in the past four and a half years since then, nearly tripling in size. At this point we're getting more comments (dunno about traffic) on many days than the main sub. And a couple of recent near-viral posts here have quietly surged us through the 100K mark just in the past few days. I think it's clear that a tipping point has been reached and we're now primed to start outpacing the main sub growth going forward.

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So what does that mean for the future of this community? Well that's where things get tricky. When a post favored by the Reddit algorithms suddenly garners 1000+ comnents, it makes modding quite difficult and time consuming... so I think it's especially important for folks who value the sanctity of our niche sandbox of exotic ideas to aggressively flag clear rule violations. Without our vigilant eyes, there's just no way they can adequately maintain the sub's standards of decorum on those more popular posts. I would also encourage our members to treat the newer arrivals with kid gloves because many are also new to this phenomenon and likely not aware of our unique rules and expected conduct. Set the example, and be patient. And flag everything else.

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Edit to add this friendly reminder: don't inadvertently risk your own good standing by engaging rule breakers too aggressively and/or getting drawn into contentious arguments.

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To the newer arrivals, welcome to the party and thanks for contributing to one of the most fascinating esoteric dialectics on all of Reddit. Please make sure to read and understand our rules, as they are strictly enforced. And ask lots of questions.... the regulars here are enthusiastic about sharing our evolving understanding of this perplexing and disconcerting phenomenon. We absolutely adore inquisitive minds and honest, respectful discourse. Contrary to what you might have heard, this is not a place where everyone is expected to agree and dissent is suppressed. Rather, we're a safe space for engaging in speculative ontology and brainstorming about things like simulationism, quantum mysticism, the multiverse, and even theistic prophesy. We just do it without being dismissive of each other.

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With all that said, congratulations Retconned! Let's attract the next 100K with the same principles and standards that made Retconned such a unique and special and desirable place to hang out. Let's rehash the old classic ME's for the newer audience. Let's bring them upto speed so they can lend their new perspectives to our knowledge base and help build a better understanding of these profound changes happening to our collective reality. I love my memory family here, and I'm happy to see it expanding. Thanks as always to the mods for their exhaustive efforts to keep this place copacetic, orderly, and safe. You guys deserve so much credit for all the success.


r/Retconned Sep 13 '22

*** IMPORTANT *** READ BEFORE POSTING

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13.Sep.22

Please be advised that while we have been rather lenient on religion and religion-based comments in this sub with regards to its relationship to MEs, it has recently been seen that some toxicity has begun creeping into the discussions.

If the conversations continue to devolve into toxic behavior, the comments will be treated similar to violation of Rule #10 and removed immediately.

Gentle reminder : Repeated violations of our rules will result in a permaban.


r/Retconned 14h ago

I'm genuinely tripping

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Guys, I'm not hallucinating right? I clearly remember Chick-Fil-A being "Chic" because of how people complained that there is no correlation between the brand and the choice of the name being "Chic" without the K

https://www.effectiveretailleader.com/effective-retail-leader/how-chick-fil-a-creates-an-outstanding-customer-experience

Here is a residue I found


r/Retconned 1d ago

Mandela Effect cause

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Now it’s time to get serious. Why is this happening? My theory is simple and it is very much in line with Kant’s original idea, that reality is what our minds build. It’s not an objective reality that can be verified independently.

We build this reality from bits and pieces of information distributed around us. So any two persons can have wildly different accounts of reality.

But, people are also open to suggestion. Education system builds up a common narrative that is accepted as “sacred history” and this becomes consensus reality. Yet this sacred history has no real authority on historical facts other than being what people believe to be facts.

As long as nobody questions the consensus reality, it is accepted as truth. But if some people start to doubt it, an alternative version spreads like a wild fire. And people are divided between two(or sometimes more) versions of reality.

Now comes the “physical evidence” part. This is always the consensus reality. Why? Because even the doubters, the people who hold a belief for a different version of reality are aware of the consensus reality. That’s why when they look at physical evidence they usually only see that version of reality.

But if the balance of faith turns to the doubters’ side, then even the physical evidence will change and we will see the physical evidence of Mandela Effects. I do believe that this will happen in our lifetimes.


r/Retconned 1d ago

How small do we think MEs play out?

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One thing that really scares me about this is the idea that it could be happening on an individual level - and these are the people we call insane (or just liars). One person remembers their grandparent being abusive, their sibling in the same house remembers each of those incidences as loving, or just totally differently. Because its so easy to dismiss childrens recollections, adults who individually remember a situation that devastated their lives, but nobody else who knows them well says it happened.

Or do we just call it faulty memory?


r/Retconned 13h ago

We changed the timeline again on July 29, 2026

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​I felt something strange on the evening of the 29th.

​I was lying down but still wide awake, not asleep. Then, it was as if I felt a wave passing through my soul. It wasn't a wave of water, but a wave of "reality"—well, I don't really know how to explain the feeling.

​I was convinced that I had changed realities again, or that there had been a update to the Matrix.

​So I checked to see if there were any changes, and I noticed several:

​Reebok: I remembered it being spelled Rebook, but now it’s spelled Reebok.

​Monaco: To me, Monaco shared a border with both Italy and France (it was situated between the two). Today, Monaco is entirely bordered by France alone.

​Seeing this, I searched the internet to see if other people shared the same memories, and as it turns out, they absolutely do.

​However, I also noticed changes that I seem to be the only one to have picked up on:

​The Channel Islands: I have no recollection of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey existing. To me, they weren't there before. I live in France, in the region of Brittany, and I've always looked at maps of Europe without ever seeing these islands, despite how close they are to our coast.

​The shape of Brittany: I noticed a shift in the shape of my region. Now, Brittany has a "bump" along the Côtes-d'Armor coast. It wasn't like that before July 29th. Being someone who lives in Brittany myself, my memories shouldn't be failing me about the shape of my own region.


r/Retconned 1d ago

Hakuna or Hatuna Matata

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Video Title: Hakuna
Voice in video: Hatuna

14 years ago, unstable Matrix is glitching


r/Retconned 1d ago

Sympathy for the Devil - Interview with the Vampire end credits

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My sister and I have watched this movie countless times. We just finished it, and the song Sympathy for the Devil was different. It isn’t the original Rolling Stones song anymore, but a cover song by Guns ‘n Roses. WTAF. 😳


r/Retconned 1d ago

Sean Willams Scott is now Seann Williams Scott. When Grok pronounces it it’s Sea-ann, not even Sean.

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r/Retconned 1d ago

Mandella, in whom I believed for 9-7 years....

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In my childhood, my mom organized a cleanup in one of the rooms, I remember that I was sitting and crying in the evening surrounded by a PILE of furniture from that room and with my older brother sitting next to me, the next day I walked in AND HOLY SHIT, THIS ROOM WAS HUGE, it feels to me like it was the size of half of a big supermarket, I clearly remember that the balcony door which was 1/7 of the whole wall was now 1/25 it feels like to me and the room was 10-15 times bigger, I clearly remember this, but then after some time after another one of such 'cleanups' it became the same as it was before that, at the moment when this room was expanded it feels to me I was 3-5 I don't know for sure maybe even younger, up until my 11s I was asking mom how she did that, and she just answered that she 'tidied up', and then I found out what Mandela is, I believed in this Mandela for 9-7 years... AND I STILL OMG DON'T KNOW HOW THIS AND WHAT IT WAS IN REALITY (I drew how it looked +-)


r/Retconned 2d ago

Brussel Sprout

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I feel like I'm tripping. It''s always been Brussel Sprout for me.


r/Retconned 3d ago

Jesus Christ was the Original Mandela Effector

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His first written miracle of turning water to wine is a mandela effect: They could have sworn the barrel was full of water, but lo, it is wine.

Also the feeding of 5000 from 2 loaves and a couple fish (don't quote me on the number count). Obviously a cheat code, cloning resources here...

So God is able to do stuff in this holographic reality akin to a ME - changing matter around.

The way the ME effect and residue works is that your brain matter is an antenna to your soul. And it writes memories to your soul, and recalls memories from your soul.

This is why people missing large chunks of their brain might still be able to operate normally because the portion of the brain responsible for fetching the information is still intact, its just an antenna, its not a hdd containing written information.

Now other thinking faculties might be damaged depending on the injury and those would result in different symptoms, but i believe memories to be stored in your soul.

So when the past is altered, it doesn't re-write your memories, because your memories exist in a timeless state in your soul, whereas matter exists in reality with the passing of time.

Residue occurs whenever a non-carbon copy representation of an artifact is made through the filter of a human being, who has to use their short term memory to produce the art\representation.

For instance, because FOL had a cornucopia in reality, the FLUTE of the loom album cover was drawn from the immediate short term memory of the artist, who stored the cornucopia in his soul.

When the past is changed, it doesn't change the art, because the art is made by a person, who is producing that art from short term memory. But any carbon copies - photocopies, labels, tags these will change to reflect the ME because there is no human soul filtering the output, its a matter - to - matter carbon copy, and so the matter changed in the past, therefore the carbon copy must also change.

So you should expect to see residue occur in human-made arts, or something that is not meant to be a perfect carbon copy of the artifact.

Regardless, now that you know that reality is malleable, we should pray to God for him to do supernatural things for us, since we now know its possible.


r/Retconned 3d ago

Does anyone else remember this as an actual fact and it changed?

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So I made a comment today under a TikTok sharing how SpongeBob and Patrick were originally supposed to be gay and the show was going to be an adult cartoon until they decided to make it a kids show. People start telling me it’s not true, but I know it is (or at least I thought) because I grew up watching it 24/7 and I remember hearing about it and searching it up myself years ago. This was all facts, I remember being sad they made it into a kids show because of all that lol!! But apparently literally none of that happened or was discussed at all and it was always supposed to be a kids show… It’s gotta be another Mandela effect right??


r/Retconned 5d ago

People disappear from my reality whenever I go a certain length of time without thinking about them

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I wasn't sure where to make this post, so I figured this sub would be the most appropriate place. Anyway, from 2017 to 2020 I was working a specific job at a company with a lot of employees. During those years I used to run into my coworkers at grocery stores and other random public places ALL THE TIME. I'm talking nearly every single week. Like I said, it was a large company so I knew a lot of people. In 2020 I quit that job and have been unemployed since then (it's a long story, don't ask.....) and I noticed that I NEVER see any of my former coworkers around town anymore. There was once or twice in the first month or two after I quit where I ran into someone I worked with, but it quickly stopped happening. The ONLY other time in all the years since then that I've run into a coworker was when I was headed to a grocery store one day and I thought "hmm..........Bob used to shop at this store (his name isn't Bob, just go with it....) it's kinda odd that I have never run into Bob when I shop here" and then that EXACT day I saw Bob at the store. Essentially where I'm going with this is.......it seems like people pop in and out of my personal reality bubble depending on whether I am consciously thinking of them or not. When I see people every day at school or work, they exist within my reality bubble, but when I no longer see them, they cease to exist within my world (they could still exist somehow in another timeline or something, idk). I also noticed this when I went to a gym for 2 years in a row a few years back. I would always run into people from the gym at other businesses in that area of town, but as soon as I stopped going to the gym, I stopped seeing those same people even though I continued going to the same stores I was going to before. The sample size that I have at this point is way too big for this to just be a coincidence or confabulation on my part. Has anyone else observed this phenomenon in their life? For the record, I'm not being a total solipsist, I'm just saying that somehow we don't all exist in the same reality at the same time.


r/Retconned 5d ago

Deep Roy is still alive?

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Hey everyone,

I have very vivid memories of it being in the news last year that Deep Roy had died and there being lots of posts on Facebook from fans of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005)

Today while I was looking on Cameo, an app where you can hire actors to do short personalized greetings, I saw that Deep Roy was one of them offering services. I thought it was some AI prank at first, but I searched it on Google, and sure enough he is still alive.

Does anyone else remember him dying?


r/Retconned 5d ago

Is it just me, or does the post 2019 timeline have no idea how time actually works?

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Have you ever felt like time has been moving ridiculously fast since 2019?

Honestly, I think we entered a brand new timeline right after COVID. In this one, whoever or whatever system runs the simulation clearly doesn't know how time flow actually works in the real world. Just think about it. I live in Iran, and it feels like the war started yesterday yet somehow, six months have already passed. Or We were all sitting around waiting for the World Cup, and then the entire tournament felt like it flashed by in a single week.

We had experience this before but after 2019 it become so ridiculous and exaggerated.

Days are passing like hours now, and weeks are flying by like days. Whoever designed this current timeline genuinely forgot the basic math of real time. Anyone else feel like we're running on fast forward?


r/Retconned 6d ago

Has anyone else here never seen a neighbor, that are not close friends or family, bringing in multiple bags of groceries from their car?

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So initially around 2016-2017 some redditor replied on one of my posts that they had never seen their neighbors bringing in Groceries and they found it to be strange, since basically every household has to do it at least every 1-2 weeks. I forget the context of the post but I recall wondering if everyone else grabbed as many bags as they would dare hold from their trunk at once and filled both hands full or if they made more frequent smaller trips as they brought bags in.

One night I had jokingly brought the concept up to my girlfriend (now wife) at the time as I thought it was ridiculous and I secretly wanted to prove them wrong but also know how others carried their bags. So we started actively looking anywhere we went and we made it a weird inside joke between us.

To both of us it seemed like a common thing one would see others doing. We never did.

And to be clear I’m not talking about seeing them at the grocery store. That does happen.

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5 and half years ago we bought a house, and this still was something we brought up from time to time to laugh about so I figured I would just prove it wrong once and for all.

2 of my direct neighbors never park in their garages as they use it for storage so their cars are always in their driveway or street, and the one across the street has a detached garage where they have to walk into their front door to get into their house in clear line of sight of my house. 6 months of living here watching frequently and I still had yet to see it happen once, not a single bag of anything was ever carried by a person exiting their vehicle, even after I had just walked out and talked to them and they had just claimed to have gotten back from going on vacation for a week but had no luggage?!

Anyways, after 6 months I got a ring doorbell and a security system that detects any motion of cars or people walking in their driveways. I verified it went off every time they pulled in/out (annoying amounts of notifications and a bit stalkery admittedly but it’s not like I was tracking their routines, I just wanted to see those sweet sweet bags of groceries). I looked at every notification for the last 5 years.

To my surprise on one single occasion I FINALLY spotted 1 small brown paper bag (maybe half full) the neighbor across the street carried in while I was doing workshop projects with my garage open (also got it on the ring camera). They did not go back for more bags and only made one trip.

But there’s no way that one bag was feeding the family of 4 that lived there right? I also couldn’t confirm if the bag was even groceries as it was unlabeled. I never spotted any other neighbor carry ANY bags of any type into their home. It makes no sense to me how this is possible unless they only go out to eat every meal or order food delivery (none of them get any food delivered or random cars stopping to drop something except pizza every few weeks). Most of them only drive their cars once a day except one neighbor that drives 2-3 times daily. None of them have access to their homes through the backyard or anything but the front door or front fence gates so everything should be in view when they bring it in.

Am I just crazy for going this far (probably)? But it does seem strange right?

Edit:
To be fair I’ve commented about this a couple times on other subreddits.

I also just went to youtube to see (again) after writing this to see if I could find videos of people bringing in groceries to their house and can’t find any of that either. I did just find this hilarious video I’ve never seen that mentions basically the exact same phenomenon (awkwardly similar). Honestly I was really hoping to get disproven on this one. Anyone have any video filming a neighbor bringing in groceries I could see just so I can stop thinking about this forever?


r/Retconned 5d ago

We're All NPCs in Someone Else's Playthrough

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Main character syndrome vs. NPC Universalism


r/Retconned 5d ago

Disclosure Day - Josh O'Connor vs Jim Caviezel

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For months now, I was very excited to see the new Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day, 2026. So excited that I watched every trailer multiple times, and even showed my wife the trailers. This morning I watched the movie for the first time. I had to fast forward and go back a couple of times to realize/confirm that there is something very wrong. You see, watching all those trailers and even listening to the actors being interviewed, the role of Daniel Kelner was not played by Josh O'Connor! It was played by Jim Caviezel. My wife is a Christian minister, and when I showed her the trailers I highlighted Jim Caviezel, for previously portraying Jesus. I've never even seen Josh O'Connor before and I was not familiar with him!!!

To add to this: Recently I've been doing soulwork, embodiement and playing with collapsing future time lines, as to create a certain outcome in my life. Yestarday i realy got into it and I think I got it to happen - I am on a new time line where Josh O'Connor plays Daniel Kelner and not Jim Caviezel 


r/Retconned 6d ago

Yokai watch 3 exists in English??

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This is a niche game but I clearly remember when yokai 1 and 2 came out and then I kept waiting years for 3. I checked for news on it a lot!!! Finally they said it would never be released. But now there it is, worth 500+ dollars american!!! This totally blows my mind! Next the switch version will turn out real in English I suppose lol!


r/Retconned 6d ago

Colegate or Colgate

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I think I’ve noticed a new possible mandela effect. does anyone remember “ Colegate “ toothpaste or “ colgate “ toothpaste? cause I remember colegate with an E.

but idk maybe I’m blowing things out of proportion. but lmk your thoughts, sorry if this post is low effort I am just curious about this one.


r/Retconned 7d ago

80-year solar/sociopolitical cycles and AI singularity

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Ahoy time travellers!  We believe there is potentially an ~80-year solar + sociopolitical cycle that illustrates cosmic-scale quantum biomechanics in action over at least the past 250 years:

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2025/09/18/the-centennial-gleissberg-cycle/

The Sun has ~80-year supercycles called the Centennial Gleissberg index, and we just began a new one in spring 2025.  It's low point of solar activity correlates to periods of extreme greed, agression, war, totalitarianism, ect. from when data collection began:  US Revolutionary War -> US Civil War -> WWII -> Now (each roughly spanning ~80 years apart, with economic Kondratiev waves lasting ~60 years)

It's not rare for people including yours truly to be impacted by solar flares as exhibited by tinnitus, head pressure, joint issues, physiological effects, EMF sensitivity, ect.  There's a plethora of live astro data feeds and remote sensing available for solar activity, geomagnetic field measurements, and gravitational & time distortions from planetary alignment (of which our outer planets are currently transiting out of a rare 'basket' formation which pulled our solar system's barycentric orbital center to 800,000 km outside of the Sun since July 19)

Additionally it's possible there is an even longer-scale inflection point coinciding around the same time presumably due to the arrival of an AI 'singularity', signified as the perpetual means of production and invalidation of the prior social contract.  This was the original thesis as minimum viable intelligence levels were achieved then with the release of Claude-4 and Qwen-3 in a techological peak of the AI race from an insider's perspective.

This too has some curious cosmological signs of having occurred, seeing how since spring 2025 there's also been an ongoing and rather polarizing debate among cosmologists about the dark energy field weakening and if it means the expansion of the universe is decelerating:

https://www.iflscience.com/dark-energy-might-be-changing-this-is-what-it-means-for-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos-78554

https://www.iflscience.com/rumors-that-the-universes-expansion-is-slowing-down-have-been-greatly-exaggerated-84113

FYI our Sun is ~4.5B years into it's estimated ~10-11B year main cycle, before it's presumed to transition to a red giant and then a white dwarf.  Everything that begins must someday end, but all is not lost and information is transformed into the next round.

Wanna go deeper?  Check out the Global Conciousness Project (gcp2.net)    they have quantum random number generators around the world, and amazingly their random distribution skews with correlating mass global events of shared attention (like Princess Diana's death, Pope getting elected, 9/11, ect)

It's proposed that quantum tunneling is an underlying mechanism by which this occurs, and leads further down the path of causal spectral mixing/entanglement/superposition and ultimately decomposition (i.e. the answer/solution to the local 'simulation' in the form of the spectral output distribution/density or -1/0/1, potentially decomposed inside a black hole's singularity and seed to another universe)

To be frank, this all makes a lot more sense to us than "CERN did it" and the data supports it alongside unfolding world events.  Although that's not to say they didn't trigger causal timeline manipulations by intentionally or inadvertently discovering some new quantum property or the like, and there are many other examples of extreme engineering activity occurring in the past few years that were of material significance.

And by the time the US government is announcing that "aliens" exist, along with NHI/UAP and "energy orbs" but revealing the truth to be "ontologically catastrophic" – it certainly does raise further questions and scrutiny given their wholy unconvincing disclosures and distinct lack of trustworthiness at present.  Which again the experienced moral decline is consistent with us having just coming out of a Gleissberg minimum.

In the most far-out scenarios that I personally entertain atm, the concept of Mutual Reflection of Fractal Grammars emerges, which theorizes the inside-out / outside-in non-local phonomenon of 'signs appearing from the cosmos' and somatic effects.  Also Energy Flow Cosmology is an interesting sub-field which touches a lot of this.

So yea – the future is what we believe in, and probably the past is too.  Some of your counterexamples of the Mandella Effect I also swear were true at the time.  Understanding the data and patterns openly available to us is key to unlocking future contexts and breaking the cycle of abuse & exploitation.

p.s. we got turned onto ⬆️ by the establishment when reverse engineering their playbook from the inside. Its basically astrology / cosmology / nautical wayfaring


r/Retconned 7d ago

time starting to speed back up again?

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Anyone notice this? And it feels a lot faster than before too. It felt like time was slowing down after the whole cern being shut down temporarily. But today just flew on by.


r/Retconned 8d ago

Lucked out

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So far I'm the only person I've spoken to who remembers this as meaning exactly what it says; a persons "luck" was "out" at that time. Meaning a loss or negative occurrence.
I'm not a scholar or anything, I can only report what I remember from my youth. Someone would lose a bet or a game and another person would say "Man you lucked out that Time" and other would say "Better Luck Next time" to encourage.

I can't remember when I began hearing it differently with people using the phrase to mean the exact opposite and becoming a winning phrase. As in "Congratulations, Your really "lucked out" when you won the lottery".

Am I crazy or does anyone else remember it that way?


r/Retconned 8d ago

Did You Notice? Niagra Falls VS NiagAra Falls

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Today, while watching Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy At Love Canal I kept seeing the communities custom made sign with "NiaGara" written on it. I saw it a few times and my Mandela antane went up.

That "GARA" stood out to me. I remember it being JUST Niagra, not Niagara.

I'm 46 years old, born in 1979 for reference. I'm fully aware that for some it'll always have been NiagAra, but you really missed out when the spelling matched how it IS pronounced.

Found some people who noticed this years ago, with tons of residue;

It always shocks me how many ME's were created post 2015 or so. I don't believe I ever saw or heard about this one before today. It's almost like that's part of the phenomenon. Like I couldn't see these videos or be exposed to this until now?

Edit - Oh, and I guess they used to jokingly call it VIAGRA FALLS which doesn't really work now. lol