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TIL about 'This Man', a conceptual art project and hoax that was popular around 2008 - 2010, which ultimately turned out to be guerilla marketing (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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[–] WamGams 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Total Mandela effect, because I know a fact that this was the summer of 2004 for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unless you are one of hundreds of people who misremembered the date, that's not a Mandela effect.

[–] WamGams 2 points 4 months ago

I should have put an /s.

I was going for a joke along the lines of, "they might not have been able to implant false memories of the guy in us, but they somehow got us all to experience him in a different year."

Even with the /S it is not funny.

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