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KitKat bars used to have five fingers before being changed to four in the early 2000s.
“Kit Kats used to have five fingers the original chocolate bar invented 930 1935 had a typical finger shape with five sections it was in the early 2000s the bar was changed from 5 to four”
Distractible Podcast · Dec 2024 · 2 episodes · 432K views on this topicThe Mandela Effect is a collective, shared memory of historical or factual details that do not align with our current version of reality.
“It's a collective shared memory of things that never happened according to our current version of reality.”
Next Level Soul Podcast · Nov 2024 · 1 episode · 154K views on this topicHe suggests the Mandela effect might result from people having faulty memories rather than actual changes in universal reality.
“I just wonder if we're just getting bad memories because it's 40 years ago and we just can't say I don't remember. So, we're just we'd rather be like so the universe changed everything and in that change we still remember the old we didn't switch us completely.”
Next Level Soul Podcast · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 147K views on this topicDanny Brown believes the Mandela Effect is a genuine mystery and highlights the discrepancy in the spelling of 'The Berenstain Bears' as his primary example.
“but far as like conspiracy theories, I guess the the one that I know for a fact, if we want to consider it to be a conspiracy theory, which would be the, uh, Mandela effect type [ __ ] cuz I remember like I'm telling you, man, the Bernstein Bears I remember, man, the Bernsteeen Bears that that [ __ ”
The Danny Brown Show · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 33K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.