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Grok probably pulled "Mandela effect" from the extensive reddit discussions on the topic.

This thread from 11 months ago discusses AI admitting to "falling for the mandela effect.": https://old.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/1g08o8u/seah...

And this thread from 3 years ago goes deeper into the rabbit hole: https://old.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/qbvbrm/anyon...

Has anyone seen World on a Wire, about living in a false reality where memories are erased to preserve the simulation? Getting a similar feeling here!

My tentative conclusion is that there must be a seahorse icon in another older app or character set that isn't unicode, and that's what people are remembering, since some of the digging into old iPhone versions seems fairly convincing.

That, or we are living in a simulation and this seahorse realization is about to imminently propagate into something far bigger...



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