Posted by Paul C on November 8, 2022, 4:24 am, in reply to "Mandela effect?"
I always saw Mandela as one of those ancient public figures who was famously still alive (until he wasn't). He was still doing stuff quite close to the end IIRC.
To me it'd be a bit like calling it "The Queen Elizabeth" effect because loads of people somehow thought she'd died years ago.