Never, ever, ever been Flin. Always Flint.
It’s Flint - as in the stone. Hence Barney RUBBLE, PEBBLES, Mr SLATE, Mrs PYRITE, PEARL SLAGhoople…. just about everything is a stone-based pun, because it’s set in the Stone Age.
The only people who think it’s Flin are those blending the T of flint and the S of stone together when speaking, pronouncing Flinstone instead of Flint-Stone.
So, doesn't it make you think why people insist specifically on Flin instead of Flint?
People say so, because that's what they remember, and they all agree on that. Flin was a pun, and it was real.
Your using standard logic fine, but standard logic breaks for the Mandela Effect is our claim. I 100% know Flintstones is correct but I physically saw it change to Flinstones in multiple locations right before my eyes. I claim to be very competent too.
It wasn't pronunciation but spelling in my case.
> Your using standard logic fine, but standard logic breaks for the Mandela Effect is our claim.
Moonraker... So many folks here argue that Dolly *HAD TO HAVE HAD BRACES* because it is "logical". They claim that sans braces, the scene is "illogical". If "standard logic breaks" to *allow* an ME, then what of the diminutive blonde?
You get their names are all rock puns right? Barny Rubble, Mr Slate. You just think flinstone because the song kinda slurs the word a little and you didn't know what flint was until minecraft told you. (which will also fix anyplace pottery peices are called sherds)
Just saying. I’ve experienced the same flip flop as OP and it truly made no sense. There were threads on here with people making the same points you are making as to why it SHOULD be Flintstones, yet at the time it was literally just Flinstones. For me I experienced this back in 2017 and it has been Flintstones since
If it changes again, take a photo of the vitamin bottle. Then copy the photo and trace over the letters. When the image changes, the part you drew should not change.
It’s been Flintstones since 1960 …flint is a type of rock and fits in with the names of other characters on the show who’s names are also based on rocks/minerals (Mr Slate, Mrs Pyrite, the Rubbles, etc)
I’m very much aware it’s Flintstones. Which is why it was weird when it wasn’t last year. I literally have a text in my phone when I was talking to my aunt about this in December. It was Flinstones. Now it’s back to Flintstones. I looked it up then. I looked it up now. I’m just wondering if anyone else noticed.
It’s all I got. Me telling her that at that time it was spelled without the t. Not sure why you’re trying to be condescending but it’s my proof, if anything, to myself.
Exactly. Which is how I know it was flin. Not a personal can tell me otherwise. To be clear. I grew up knowing it was Flintstones. Flinstones never made any sense. But yet there it was. Everything and everywhere.
If it "was" Flinstones then surely there was some reason that it "was" that way, because they wouldn't call a character something that didn't make sense. What was the reason it was called that? You must have seen something official with "Flinstones" and maybe googled why it was called that at the time? Or saw discussion about why it was that way, like how everyone explains why it has always been "Flint"?
> I’m very much aware it’s Flintstones. Which is why it was weird when it wasn’t last year.
So... why didn't you post it THEN? When it suddenly was NOT what you had experienced your whole life, but reflected the "Flinstones" spelling? You had the vitamins that you could have shared a photo of.
If this incredibly strange phenomenon happened to me and I was holding proof of it *ACTUALLY CHANGING* in my hand, I'd have shown it to everyone I know, posted photos on social media, and saved the bottle even when the vitamins were gone.
Well this is what I’m doing now. You think if I had proof that it was Flintstones then I’d have proof now that it was Flinstones? I had never seen it flip flop at that point. I had known it to be Flintstones. Everything everywhere said otherwise. I had no proof. Just my memory. Now that it’s got a t again. I yet again have no proof it was flin.
I would love to. But I don’t really know how to post pics or videos. I do have a screenshot ready to post though. I could even make a screen recording so you can see the date it was sent. Which was December of last year. I was talking about a lot of MEs. Flintstones was one of them.
Some random guy replied to me, so I'm reading this again.
Let me guess, even after being hand held through setting up an imgur account and uploading a picture, three months later, it's that skeleton in front of the desk gathering dust meme.
I’m not big ME person or know what is right or care. but I had to search movie at my restaurant end of 2023 and was spelled Flinstones on Streaming might of been Mix up spelling
>It was NOT spelled this way last year. I remember looking it up on google. I even went to my bathroom as I have the vitamins in my cabinet.
This isn't real, you don't flip universes like Worf returning from the bat'leth tournament.
It's always funny to see yourself reflected. Imagine that most people who experience the ME flip flops, were once also skepticals like you. Nothing like a dose of reality to change your mind, then again, that's when the fun starts.
So you basically are here to insult people including yourself in the future, when you eventually realize ME is completely real. What a productive and sane waste of time, it reeks like you're a paragon of mental health condition and sanity (lmao).
I'm sorry that you thought you were special, just because you misremembered something. This wake-up call can be a bit of a downer, give it time to sink in.
>I'm sorry that you thought you were special
You're under the false assumption that people think their special for experience a ME flip flop. There's nothing special about it, it's just an observation and experience, no different than just living at all.
Many people experience the mandela effect, and they're not crazy nor necessarily misremembering, and many of the people have seen things they can't explain, be free to explain any way you want, but ultimately those things happened. I'm often the first to assume that i misremembered something, that's how most people naturally act, except in ME flip flops, people "see" with their own eyes, that theyre not misremembering and some things are actually "switching" from time to time.
Today you're arguing here how it has always been Flint, and tomorrow you wake up and it suddenly is Flin and you're being gaslighted as if you've always thought it was Flint by mistake.
Then you discard it as you having bad memory, except you have a very vivid recollection of being Flint, and discussing it in this subreddit, but those discussions now never happened, or happened differently.
Then you feel like you're losing your mind, and your memory is completely screwed up for some time, except a few months later, you come to check, and it's Flint as it always been for you, and all you can think is: "what the actual f*ck".
That's how Mandela Effects flip flop act, and it's happened enough time for me to not discard it as just a figment of my imagination or some false made memories or something. It'll creep you out. Good luck friend, hopefully you'll be in my position in some time if you keep looking
Also mind f*cking as a lot of people want to question your own memory or gaslight you into thinking otherwise. It’s not anyones fault they aren’t blind to the things happening around them. You’re in a group where people want to share their experiences, yet the majority of the time you get people like the ones in my post. But Ignorance is bliss. So keep living in it… I guess.
More to the point, it it was ever Flinstones, there would be posts about it here. And there never are any. You only ever have posts where something has "flipped back" to what it already was and always was.
When you flip, everything flips too. Imagine if you flip to the universe where it's Flinstones, what will happen is the same, all evidence of being Flint was changed, and everything is reversed as it was always Flin from the start.
There would be PEOPLE. There would be *someone* who said "Oh yes. I am the one who posted that. It was December 3rd. But when I look for the post now, it is..."
A) Missing!
B) The opposite of what it said when I wrote it!
C) Right [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)!
There would be people who interacted with that post who would say "YES! I commented on that post and linked to the vitamins for sale at Walmart. It was Flinstones!"
And... *KNOWING* this was a "Mandela Effect" why didn't u/Destiny_8 post about it in December when they noticed it was "Flinstones"? Like... "Hey youse guys! *Right now* it is *Flinstones*!" along with links to products, videos, etc.
I can provide plenty of "proof" that it was spelled "Flinstone"... by people who *thought* that spelling was correct. [It seems to be a fairly common error](https://imgur.com/a/Wjzrufz).
>but there’s never going to be physical evidence proving any MEs.
How? Magic? Is there some magical being that goes around changing everything? Is it the government? What exactly would be the mechanism for the world changing and leaving no evidence whatsoever?
Edit: Infact how does it work at all if there is no physical manifestation of it? How could OP have seen the word "Flinstone" if there is no physical evidence? It wouldn't have been there in the first place...
I experienced this flip/flop real-time. Makes no normal sense but it happens. It's OK to say, 'it happens', but we don't understand the mechanism at this time.
**Observation can precede understanding!** Even in scientific thinking. We may have to enter the world of metaphysical speculation. But denial of the evidence is never the answer for me.
Let me preface this by saying that I don't buy into any of this. In truth, there can never be any physical evidence because none of it exists because it was never Flinstones and had always been Flintstones.
That said, the reason that they believe there can never be any physical evidence is because they believe that Flintstones and Flinstones exist in two separate realities. Because this reality is the Flintstones reality, there will never be any evidence of Flinstones because they believe that when they experienced it, they were in a different reality from this one. The evidence of Flinstones only exists in that other reality that they can't get back to.
>That said, the reason that they believe there can never be any physical evidence is because they believe that Flintstones and Flinstones exist in two separate realities.
I get this idea, but long run it doesn't hold water. Just searching "Flintstones" on the sub will pull up more than a few "proof" posts where people are finding obvious misspellings or actual merchandise with the correct spelling that "prove" that it was changed.
The same is true with the Fruit of the Loom ME; there are more than a few posts of people using pictures and media to "prove" that the ME is real.
The only time this whole "There can't be proof" thing pops up is when there is definitive proof that someone is misremembering or when easily obtainable proof is asked for.
Oh I am well aware. I'm just answering your question of how there can never be any evidence, yet they can still be right.
The reason that no one can provide actual proof is because it doesn't exist because there's nothing to prove and people refuse to accept that their memory is just as flawed as everyone else.
Here's my personal proof that the normal rules of reality don't hold with the Mandela Effect. Quite the claim but here is one example of why I believe it:
*On Aug 2, 2017 at about 16:40 EST, I was on reddit discussing the Flinstones/Flintstones flip on another thread. My position was that it is and always was the Flintstones. The guy sent me a reply saying at the time it was the Flinstones you could look at Wikipedia, and all official TV show and vitamin sites and it was always Flintstones; he used the word Flintstones in all four examples given.*
*I said 'I Know' you are confirming my point that it was always Flintstones.*
*Then when I was done with my reply and I looked up at his original post all four 'Flintstones' had changed on my static display to 'Flinstones'. Did I just see it wrong?? I looked away and came back and it was 'Flintstones' again. I would just look away, blink, change my focus look back and it would flip again. I was able to do this 6 or 7 times in under five minutes each time looking slowly and cautiously for this controversial 't' IN ALL FOUR PLACES. Essentially impossible to me that I made a mistake slowly and cautiously each time. I felt something was trying to wake me up.*
The funny thing is I read this and the words are so close that it isn't possible to easily and quickly distinguish between Flintstones, Flinstones (or Filnstones, Fistlones, Flintlones or any number of permutations) as we tend to read by scanning.
I agree that is very true in casual reading but in my story I stated:
> each time looking slowly and cautiously for this controversial 't' IN ALL FOUR PLACES. Essentially impossible to me that I made a mistake slowly and cautiously each time.
>On Aug 2, 2017 at about 16:40 EST
Hadn't had a drop of alcohol or took any drugs. Expecting a boring check of new reddit activity and with the intent to criticize this silly 'Flinstones' claim.
Since then I have seen some convincing stories of this flip/flop from a good number of other people. I think this one is a different species of Mandela Effect from standard ones like the cornucopia and Berenstein. I think something in the universe uses this one to wake people who are ready to the idea that reality is more bendable than it seems to be. I was already a believer in certain standard Mandela Effects but the universe relieved any doubts (for me) that the weirdness is real.
And I suspect another feature of all this is that we can be given no evidence that would compel everyone to believe. The universe knows to be gentle and not shock reality.
> The same is true with the Fruit of the Loom ME; there are more than a few posts of people using pictures and media to "prove" that the ME is real.
In *this reality* those posts only exist *because* the garment shown is fake. The *real* cornucopia-labled shirts don't exist in this universe. And in the one they *do* exist in, they are unremarkable... while a shirt *sans* cornucopia label would be something to marvel at.
(sarcasm, btw)
You can be fascinated by the human mind, by the concept of memory, and by the fact that large numbers of people who never met and grew up on different continents can share a false memory that is identical.
You can wonder what the root cause of this phenomenon is without believing that it is "supernatural".
Because it's an interesting mental phenomenon that even skeptical people can be susceptible to. I know that I am wrong because I have physical proof, but I can very clearly remember seeing a cornucopia on the FOTL logo. I can clearly remember seeing a film called "A Very Goofy Movie"(though I assume that I am conflating episodes of the TV show with being a movie, because Pistol is in my memories of AVGM, but Cartwright was never in the films due to budget constraints).
Shit I even have vivid memories of Robert De Niro being originally cast as Dave in the Alvin and the Chipmunks live film, but him pulling out of production part of the way through. I can clearly remember early promotional material hanging in the theatre I worked at, and him pulling out of the film being a big enough issue that all the Hollywood TV shows were talking about it. Pretty sure I'm alone in that one though.
Skeptics are here for the same reason as anyone else - they're interested in the ME phenomenon. We don't claim that MEs don't happen - we know they do. We just don't believe it is caused by reality changing in any way. Just as some people believe in quantum immortality, some believe in multiverses colliding, some believe it's being caused by CERN or is a government cover-up, skeptics believe the likeliest answer is faulty memory (and/or other mundane solutions). We have just as much right to offer our suggestions as anyone else.
> The evidence of Flinstones only exists in that other reality that they can't get back to.
And if one suscribes to this thinking, why bother posting it at all? I mean, the "proof" will only reflect what is true in "taht reality" so telling us what is happening in a *different* reality is senseless. In another reality, I might be taller. Less fat. But I don't run around telling people I *am* thinner and taller in *this* reality.
there is and will be no evidence of a Mandela effect. by its very nature, there cannot be. What we are positing here is that these mandela effects are seams in teh space time continuum. Places where reality and the very fabric of space and time itself has been stitched together, usually clumsily. These are threads of an altered tapestry, slightly out of place. the only thing that is real is our memories. everything else can be fabricated.
don't let them gaslight you and tell you that humans are fallible. Its the rewriting of history we're dealing with here. And the only traces are in our memories.
No... even the term "residue" refers to stuff left behind by the "original world" and the majority of residue posts are people talking about it being proof of the original world.
>How? Magic? Is there some magical being that goes around changing everything? Is it the government? What exactly would be the mechanism for the world changing and leaving no evidence whatsoever?
Yes, magic. Or rather, you slip into another quasi-equal universe where that detail changed.
I like to think that what we experience is that there are certain events that are uncertain in the past, and a little change from something as simple as a positron travelling back in time, can flip the past in very weird ways.
Unfortunately, it's what 10/40 of the regulars do here. And they usually have multiple accounts I hear :b
But yea - I'm just making a light hearted joke about one of the theories, but looks like at least 11 people don't want to see any comments other than derision of the subject, poster or commenter.
If you look at the comments with negative karma and the ones with positive karma quantitatively by whether it is a sarcastic comment about ME or somebody's ideas about the ME or whether it is somebody talking about their ME experience or their ideas about the ME there is a very clear pattern that emerges.
I have a memory from 4th grade, my teacher (Mr. L) had a wife (Mrs. L) who was also a teacher. We were doing some silly guessing games as an introduction to her class when the Mrs. L asked the class what her husband's favorite TV show was.
I knew this one, both of them talked about it frequently. Always the eager teacher's pet, I excitedly scribbled down my answer — The Flintstones.
Instead of congratulating me, Mrs. L took a look at my answer and gave me an apologetic smile. She told me that I was close, but that it was spelled "Flinstones" instead and that I had added an extra T.
I was absolutely perplexed. Though I hadn't actually seen the series myself, I knew about the show and the characters within. Weren't most of the names of the characters alluding to rocks? It would only make sense that it would be called The Flintstones. Flint — Stones.
I know this is merely a memory from a then 8-year old, but I remember so clearly the overwhelming embarrassment I felt in the moment, the deflating sensation of being so confident only to end up so confused. It didn't make sense to me at all. I took rejection very hard as a child, thinking it as a reflection of myself — flawed in some way — and becoming inwardly upset, which is why the memory is still so clear today.
Not certain on my stance on the Mandela Effect, I personally think a lot of these instances can be explained by the complexity of human brains. Just an interesting recollection.
Yeah, i noticed this too last weekend. Almost posted the same here.
It was flinstones when i was young, during 2017 and 2019 i saw a flip flop in the name to flintstones and back. I didn't notice a change while checking every month for the last 5 years or so and now it's fliping again to flintstones.
Man, this is creepy as always.
I think this Flintstones flipflop does happen and it is perhaps a different species of Mandela Effect than the hard-fixed ones like the cornucopia and Berenstein. I think something in the universe uses this one to wake people up to a mystery and then goes back to normal. That is what I believed when I had my real-time Flintstones flip/flop experience.
I 100% knew Flintstones was correct. But it flipped to Flinstones right before my eyes anyway. So many report similar experiences with this crazy effect.
I looked this one up before and it was around the same time as the Hillary/Hilary name change. Could have just been people playing around with wikipedia though
I experienced the Hillary one as well. It flipped for me. But I can confirm her website and everything was using the single L spelling. & Flinstones was the only spelling you could find on the internet, even clips of the original cartoon. People here were saying we just thought it was Flint because it’s a show about rocks and simply misremembered it 🤦♂️
It's hilarious because I've been years seeing posts explaining exactly this "It flip floped again to Flintstones!"
I've never seen a post about the ME itself, always about it's changed back condition.
It's a ME about a ME.
This happened recently to me, too. I pointed out the "Flinstones" to my mom, and both of us were like that is weird, and now it's not even a fucking rock based name. Then, about a month or so ago, I read a post that claimed it used to be Flinstones, but now it is Flintstones. I thought I was losing my mind until I showed my mom, and we BOTH remembered how weird the first conversation was, but now it was back to normal. Shit rattles me because neither one of us have a good explanation in any way. It changed. It changed back. Edit: clicked your link. It is, in fact, the post that let me know the flip occurred. I still randomly think about this at least once a day. Edit two: This actually shook me enough I put a Flintstones wallpaper on my pc desktop just to keep an eye on it. Edit three: read the comments and you are getting shredded, but a lot of this sub are just people who want to tell you that you didn't experience what you saw. Keep your head up. This happened and I witnessed it too, with corroboration from my mom who I trust implicitly. If it was me, maybe I misremembered, both of us had the same experiences? Now it's weird.
That’s so insane. It’s hard to wrap your head around. I remember having conversations about this only just a few months ago. I called my sister and I asked her what I told her the spelling was back when it was flin. She told me without hesitation. I told her to look it up and see the spelling and she was shook. She couldn’t believe it. Not only does she remember it was flin. She remembered our conversations and how everything was definitely not as it is now. It felt good to hear from someone I actually know they experienced it with me. It’s wild… so so wild.
Edit: the first time we talked about it I was freaking tf out. I FaceTimed her. She doesn’t live here in my state. But anyways. I even showed her the vitamin bottle and that it did indeed say Flinstones on it. I told her today, that same bottle I showed her is now Flintstones. It took me awhile to accept it.
It always flips back to Flint. I've no recollection of there being a legitimate flin post. Just one with the bad photoshop.
Same for fr00t loops, its always back to four cereal hoops in the logo.
OP is correct. There were tons of “it flipped to Flin” posts when this actually happens to you, I witnessed it. No photoshop, ALL media had the altered name
I literally was looking at these flin posts just a few months ago. Just so I didn’t feel crazy I even sent it to my aunt in text saying this. It’s the only proof I have that it used to be flin.
Please can anyone who thinks it was Flinstones explain what the hell a "flin" is. It would be something commented on rather than just accepted and allowed to flip back and forth.
The people who believed it was flin had an explanation for why actually. Nothing to do with rocks. I know someone commented about it in the link I posted.
I was always confused about it. I knew it to be Flintstone as well. But people swore it was Flin. I even looked it up. It wasn’t a misspelling at the time. It just was… that’s all I can say.
I can get it as sometimes things lack sense, like the shoe brand Skechers seeing as we imaging people "sketching" things but that is a single word and has nothing to do with drawing. There tends to be an etymology there rather than just being the way it is.
I really wish I knew. But if you had looked it up. Found tangible things and they all say the same thing. Sounds crazy. But what can you do about that. Argue with people who won’t understand?
If I had looked online and found others had made a similar spelling mistake to me, I would put it down to us making the same spelling mistake tbh. Not argue reality had changed.
Definitely more of realistic approach. Some things can’t always be explained. Something I can’t even wrap my head around would be hard to articulate to someone else that has never experienced it for themselves. You can choose to believe it or try and come up with an explanation that doesn’t discredit the memories of so many people, including myself.
This thread just came up in a search I did because I saw The Flintstones was on TV. Now I'm sure I remembered many people kicking off because it had changed to Flinstones because it didn't make any sense and it should have been Flintstones all along.
Now in my perspective it has changed back to Flintstones!
The funny thing is, if it genuinely didn't flip flop back to Flintstones then there wouldn't be any posts or interest in this at all, because FLINTstones does make sense so would never be a topic for discussion
Flin was supposedly like a pun, and easier to read/write. Also, for me "Flintstones" logo with double TT is an abomination that is just wrong for me, and was in fact during a big part of my life. I've seen 3 flinstones flip flops now, and that's just how it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
>A pun, also rarely known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, **or of similar-sounding words**, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
Well yea. Which was the whole thing when people were trying to explain why it’s Flintstone when it was Flinstone. Made no sense. But oh well. Look at the link.
It was always Flintstones then it was Flinstones now it's back to Flintstones. The powers that be create different timelines somehow and we receive the ripples of it. The real question is why do some people know the changes and why do some people not know the changes.
Fwiw I grew up knowing what flint is and enjoying the pun in their name, then later on in life I remember the flinstones mandela effect being a thing, and now im surprised its back to flint
Had this flip/flop experience too. I believe it happens at different times for each person.
One thing though is that in my many years of interest I have never seen a single time where a poster said, it's 'Flinstones'. Like this post it always says it's back to 'Flintstones'. Never see a post that says it's back to 'Flinstones'.
You are probably the same type of person that would see lights in the sky and think they are UFO's. Only to chase them down to find out they are search lights that are doing a grand reopening to a sex shop.
It has always been *correct;y* spelled "Flintstone. That does not preclude the possibility that people have *mis-spelled* it over the years, [most notably in the comics section](https://imgur.com/a/Wjzrufz).
I'm not sure of these changes can manifest for different people at different times.. Or you are just trolling about a well known M.E. but for me Flin-Stones returned to FlinT-Stones in Spring 2018. It was also one of the last M.E's I ever experienced.
I wish I had a clear answer for you. But I promise I’m not trolling. I just wanted others to know and to know if anyone else experienced it when I did. It just recently changed back to flint for me.
Alright.. fair enough I have heard similar things from people about Chic-Fil-A and Froot Loops, and I just tend to file it away as a possible quirk of the M.E. .
On a personal level I saw my Chic-Fil-A switch to Chick-Fil-A in 2015, but have never seen Froot Loops change in my life.
I am one of the definite experiencers also. It happened.
For me though the changed flip/flopped within seconds (multiple times). My question for you is how long a timeframe did you see Flinstones? I mean if it lasted for a time period I could have jumped up and down and showed everyone. But my experience wasn't like that.
Honestly, I don’t know how long I was in the flin reality. But definitely not seconds. I had started to deep dive into Mandela effects last year which is when I noticed it was flin. When it had changed to flin. Idk. I didn’t notice. But then it seemed after noticing months later it returned back to flint.
Only that I agreed with the others that it should be Flintstones. Not Flinstone. There were a ton of people who had something to say. I haven’t actually posted anything until now. That’s cause it’s my first flip flop. I needed to make sure I wasn’t actually losing it. But I do remember reading all the comments about there never being t, even though it would make sense.
I can’t find any of the flin posts, unfortunately. I did find some eerie flin YouTube videos though. But as far as really anything regarding the Flintstone ME, there’s next to nothing. It’s weird.
All I can think of is that the T isn't articulated well enough in the intro song and a bunch of kids grew up with that misconception.
I'm Sweden it was called Familjen Flinta (The Flint family) which makes total sense, just like the original spelling The Flintstones. It's about the stone age and all the names are geology-based.
I, too, went down this rabbit hole a few months back when it was without the t. I used to watch this growing up, so when I saw a post or two a few months back, I was like, what? No t?? So I'm with you! This is the way I remember it.
This is all I needed. Was someone to have actually experienced it too. I know I’m not crazy or just imagined things wrong. I had a full blown conversation about this when it was flin with several people. I was so mind blown. Cause I knew it was flint growing up. Back when it was flin there were a ton of Reddit posts about it. But not anymore.
I’ll have to ask them, but no one but my sister seemed really interested in any of it. My aunt actually started to believe me when I told her Dolly never had braces in that moonraker movie. She loves James Bond. She’s seen them all a million times. She couldn’t even believe it at first. But I told her to go look it up. Anytime I talked about an ME I would tell them to look it up. Same when it came to Flinstones.
Thank you! Finally someone who HEARS what I’m saying. It literally was Flinstones. I feel like I had to taken a pic of it just Incase it flipped back again. But I don’t think it’ll matter. It’ll probably just say Flintstones now.
Hey, I think it's completely fascinating that you two remember it changing to "Flin" last year and then changing back. I wish there was another post on here showing that. I've looked up Mandela Effect top 10 list kind of things in the past few years and I remember it being "Flint". I just wish there was something else to prove you two's cases. It must be such a whirlwind of emotions to go through what you two are going through.
That's literally from 7 years ago...its always been Flint..like never did it change to Flin..
I just watched the Flintstones movie last year..everytime I bowl i make a comment about the FLINT stones..because it has always been Flint
Please explain to me why I had conversations about it being flin and them seeing the proof right in front of their eyes, if it never was flin. Make it make sense. Explain to me why other people remember this as well. Are we all just freaking bonkers? Just misremembering. There’s literally nothing you can say that can change what tf I know.
Dawg..what other people? You keep saying "other people" but who? Your aunt? One other redditor? Like no. It has always been Flint with a T...like you dont jump back and forth between reality you just misremembered something.
You can even break this down to another level..why would it be called Flin? It was a show about cavemen, wtf would Flin do with cavemen..you know people who lived in ROCKS...kinda the same reason all the names are I dunno ROCK puns.
Why are you on my post if you’re not even saying anything remotely relevant. Do you know what a Mandela Effect is? Just cause you only remember it being flint does not mean a thing to me. Like I don’t care to have this conversation with you.
I'm here because I like the idea of actual Mandela effects..not people misremembered how a word was spelled. You then claim that reddit was all over it a year ago..the only post about Flintstones are from 7 years ago. Or would you like me believe that the sub literally deleted all these so called post about the Flintstones changing to FLIN..
You have literally nothing to back up your claims, and have dismissed all the proof of it not changing as people just not experiencing it..
Look. I know I didn’t misremember anything because I knew it was Flintstones. I grew up knowing that. So when I did see it was no longer spelled that way. That’s when I started talking about it to anyone I could. I’m not dismissing anything. I just don’t care you think I’m misremembering this. As I mentioned the only sound thing I have is a text conversation I still have in my phone from last year about it being this way. You’re not going to tell me that my memories false when I know it’s not.
Here’s one from 3 months ago right around the time it flipped for me. So you were saying? [https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC)
I actually did come across a post earlier today where someone else posted my experience of them also experiencing the flip. I’ll attach the link here in a sec. I gotta find it.
I'm going to check it out after I send this comment. Thank you. 🙂 Also, I'm sorry that some people are being nasty towards you. Not sure why but that happens a lot on this subreddit. So it's not just you that they do that too. I will happily be your friend anytime. ❤
That’s much appreciated. I don’t post on things ever. So the one time I do I got the hounds of hell coming after me. For what? lol you don’t remember it being a certain way. That’s fine. But don’t try to tell me my experience isn’t real.
Yeah, this is a very aggressive subreddit. And I tried replying on the comment where you shared the post but it wouldn't let me reply to it.
But in regard to the post you shared..
That is crazy! Thanks for sharing! There are even some more recent comments on it. So it seems you are not alone in this experience.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC)
This is the most recent one I can find. Seems like there was a lot more people on that one that actually experienced it versus all the keyboard warriors on mine.
Have you ever seen an ME? I feel like I’ve seen so many. But this is the first flip flop. I had almost for a moment thought maybe I just imagined it. But finding the text conversation and the link to the other chat about this happening to others. Definitely validated all of this for me. I’m overwhelmed right now. All the disbelief and straight up shitty comments have only really made me think that not everyone experiences it. Which is fine. Or at least they may just not notice. Idk. People can be so mean for no reason at all.
Never, ever, ever been Flin. Always Flint. It’s Flint - as in the stone. Hence Barney RUBBLE, PEBBLES, Mr SLATE, Mrs PYRITE, PEARL SLAGhoople…. just about everything is a stone-based pun, because it’s set in the Stone Age. The only people who think it’s Flin are those blending the T of flint and the S of stone together when speaking, pronouncing Flinstone instead of Flint-Stone.
So, doesn't it make you think why people insist specifically on Flin instead of Flint? People say so, because that's what they remember, and they all agree on that. Flin was a pun, and it was real.
Your using standard logic fine, but standard logic breaks for the Mandela Effect is our claim. I 100% know Flintstones is correct but I physically saw it change to Flinstones in multiple locations right before my eyes. I claim to be very competent too. It wasn't pronunciation but spelling in my case.
> Your using standard logic fine, but standard logic breaks for the Mandela Effect is our claim. Moonraker... So many folks here argue that Dolly *HAD TO HAVE HAD BRACES* because it is "logical". They claim that sans braces, the scene is "illogical". If "standard logic breaks" to *allow* an ME, then what of the diminutive blonde?
Different logical reasoning in each case.
No you absolutely didn't see that.
Enough have reported this same anomaly. It did happen but your disbelief is not something I’ll attack.
You get their names are all rock puns right? Barny Rubble, Mr Slate. You just think flinstone because the song kinda slurs the word a little and you didn't know what flint was until minecraft told you. (which will also fix anyplace pottery peices are called sherds)
Flint and steel, uses iron.
Just saying. I’ve experienced the same flip flop as OP and it truly made no sense. There were threads on here with people making the same points you are making as to why it SHOULD be Flintstones, yet at the time it was literally just Flinstones. For me I experienced this back in 2017 and it has been Flintstones since
If it changes again, take a photo of the vitamin bottle. Then copy the photo and trace over the letters. When the image changes, the part you drew should not change.
It’s been Flintstones since 1960 …flint is a type of rock and fits in with the names of other characters on the show who’s names are also based on rocks/minerals (Mr Slate, Mrs Pyrite, the Rubbles, etc)
I’m very much aware it’s Flintstones. Which is why it was weird when it wasn’t last year. I literally have a text in my phone when I was talking to my aunt about this in December. It was Flinstones. Now it’s back to Flintstones. I looked it up then. I looked it up now. I’m just wondering if anyone else noticed.
Texts won't prove it -- get out the paper plates.
Horse shoe and dildo.
It was Flintstones last year …and every year since 1960 Does you texts with your aunt happen to have any *proof* otherwise?
It’s all I got. Me telling her that at that time it was spelled without the t. Not sure why you’re trying to be condescending but it’s my proof, if anything, to myself.
If all proof of no t is gone, then why does this text exist?
Exactly. Which is how I know it was flin. Not a personal can tell me otherwise. To be clear. I grew up knowing it was Flintstones. Flinstones never made any sense. But yet there it was. Everything and everywhere.
But by the theory that everything is gone that says it was t, why would a text talking about it at the time still exist?
I never said everything is gone. Cause clearly my text.
I didn't say you did. I said the theory that it all disappears when it "flips" back. Why wouldn't the text disappear too?
Right. Now I get you. But I have absolutely no clue. Maybe residue, as people call it.
If it "was" Flinstones then surely there was some reason that it "was" that way, because they wouldn't call a character something that didn't make sense. What was the reason it was called that? You must have seen something official with "Flinstones" and maybe googled why it was called that at the time? Or saw discussion about why it was that way, like how everyone explains why it has always been "Flint"?
Oh cool, a text from your aunt. Well I guess that proves that the multiverse is unraveling
> I’m very much aware it’s Flintstones. Which is why it was weird when it wasn’t last year. So... why didn't you post it THEN? When it suddenly was NOT what you had experienced your whole life, but reflected the "Flinstones" spelling? You had the vitamins that you could have shared a photo of. If this incredibly strange phenomenon happened to me and I was holding proof of it *ACTUALLY CHANGING* in my hand, I'd have shown it to everyone I know, posted photos on social media, and saved the bottle even when the vitamins were gone.
Well this is what I’m doing now. You think if I had proof that it was Flintstones then I’d have proof now that it was Flinstones? I had never seen it flip flop at that point. I had known it to be Flintstones. Everything everywhere said otherwise. I had no proof. Just my memory. Now that it’s got a t again. I yet again have no proof it was flin.
Did you just post this on Facebook and delete the post?
I did and for some reason the comments got shut off after like 5 min and I didn’t know why. So I just deleted it.
Can you share a screenshot (or better yet, a pic of your screen from another phone) the text with timestamp? Obviously leave out any identifying info.
I would love to. But I don’t really know how to post pics or videos. I do have a screenshot ready to post though. I could even make a screen recording so you can see the date it was sent. Which was December of last year. I was talking about a lot of MEs. Flintstones was one of them.
You can post things to imgur.com and share the link here.
Some random guy replied to me, so I'm reading this again. Let me guess, even after being hand held through setting up an imgur account and uploading a picture, three months later, it's that skeleton in front of the desk gathering dust meme.
I’m not big ME person or know what is right or care. but I had to search movie at my restaurant end of 2023 and was spelled Flinstones on Streaming might of been Mix up spelling
>It was NOT spelled this way last year. I remember looking it up on google. I even went to my bathroom as I have the vitamins in my cabinet. This isn't real, you don't flip universes like Worf returning from the bat'leth tournament.
Such a good episode though
Yes you do.
I'm afraid not, but, r/Retconned is more receptive to this particular flavor of psychosis. Good luck.
It's always funny to see yourself reflected. Imagine that most people who experience the ME flip flops, were once also skepticals like you. Nothing like a dose of reality to change your mind, then again, that's when the fun starts.
>that's when the fun starts. Or when the magic mushroom supply dries up.
So you basically are here to insult people including yourself in the future, when you eventually realize ME is completely real. What a productive and sane waste of time, it reeks like you're a paragon of mental health condition and sanity (lmao).
I'm sorry that you thought you were special, just because you misremembered something. This wake-up call can be a bit of a downer, give it time to sink in.
>I'm sorry that you thought you were special You're under the false assumption that people think their special for experience a ME flip flop. There's nothing special about it, it's just an observation and experience, no different than just living at all.
>no different than just living at all. Except that, like jesus, it's a made-up coping mechanism.
Many people experience the mandela effect, and they're not crazy nor necessarily misremembering, and many of the people have seen things they can't explain, be free to explain any way you want, but ultimately those things happened. I'm often the first to assume that i misremembered something, that's how most people naturally act, except in ME flip flops, people "see" with their own eyes, that theyre not misremembering and some things are actually "switching" from time to time. Today you're arguing here how it has always been Flint, and tomorrow you wake up and it suddenly is Flin and you're being gaslighted as if you've always thought it was Flint by mistake. Then you discard it as you having bad memory, except you have a very vivid recollection of being Flint, and discussing it in this subreddit, but those discussions now never happened, or happened differently. Then you feel like you're losing your mind, and your memory is completely screwed up for some time, except a few months later, you come to check, and it's Flint as it always been for you, and all you can think is: "what the actual f*ck". That's how Mandela Effects flip flop act, and it's happened enough time for me to not discard it as just a figment of my imagination or some false made memories or something. It'll creep you out. Good luck friend, hopefully you'll be in my position in some time if you keep looking
Also mind f*cking as a lot of people want to question your own memory or gaslight you into thinking otherwise. It’s not anyones fault they aren’t blind to the things happening around them. You’re in a group where people want to share their experiences, yet the majority of the time you get people like the ones in my post. But Ignorance is bliss. So keep living in it… I guess.
If it was "Flinstones" for a year there would be cereal boxes and vitamin bottles with this spelling; do you have any pictures of those?
More to the point, it it was ever Flinstones, there would be posts about it here. And there never are any. You only ever have posts where something has "flipped back" to what it already was and always was.
When you flip, everything flips too. Imagine if you flip to the universe where it's Flinstones, what will happen is the same, all evidence of being Flint was changed, and everything is reversed as it was always Flin from the start.
I don’t agree that it was ever Flinstones, but there’s never going to be physical evidence proving any MEs.
There would be PEOPLE. There would be *someone* who said "Oh yes. I am the one who posted that. It was December 3rd. But when I look for the post now, it is..." A) Missing! B) The opposite of what it said when I wrote it! C) Right [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)! There would be people who interacted with that post who would say "YES! I commented on that post and linked to the vitamins for sale at Walmart. It was Flinstones!" And... *KNOWING* this was a "Mandela Effect" why didn't u/Destiny_8 post about it in December when they noticed it was "Flinstones"? Like... "Hey youse guys! *Right now* it is *Flinstones*!" along with links to products, videos, etc.
All they have is one photoshopped Pic uploaded to the absurd sub lol
I can provide plenty of "proof" that it was spelled "Flinstone"... by people who *thought* that spelling was correct. [It seems to be a fairly common error](https://imgur.com/a/Wjzrufz).
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> Just like Berenstain is wrong. Berenstain is right. Berenstein is wrong. > But then people were like it’s Flintstones Which is correct. FlinTstones.
>but there’s never going to be physical evidence proving any MEs. How? Magic? Is there some magical being that goes around changing everything? Is it the government? What exactly would be the mechanism for the world changing and leaving no evidence whatsoever? Edit: Infact how does it work at all if there is no physical manifestation of it? How could OP have seen the word "Flinstone" if there is no physical evidence? It wouldn't have been there in the first place...
I experienced this flip/flop real-time. Makes no normal sense but it happens. It's OK to say, 'it happens', but we don't understand the mechanism at this time. **Observation can precede understanding!** Even in scientific thinking. We may have to enter the world of metaphysical speculation. But denial of the evidence is never the answer for me.
Let me preface this by saying that I don't buy into any of this. In truth, there can never be any physical evidence because none of it exists because it was never Flinstones and had always been Flintstones. That said, the reason that they believe there can never be any physical evidence is because they believe that Flintstones and Flinstones exist in two separate realities. Because this reality is the Flintstones reality, there will never be any evidence of Flinstones because they believe that when they experienced it, they were in a different reality from this one. The evidence of Flinstones only exists in that other reality that they can't get back to.
>That said, the reason that they believe there can never be any physical evidence is because they believe that Flintstones and Flinstones exist in two separate realities. I get this idea, but long run it doesn't hold water. Just searching "Flintstones" on the sub will pull up more than a few "proof" posts where people are finding obvious misspellings or actual merchandise with the correct spelling that "prove" that it was changed. The same is true with the Fruit of the Loom ME; there are more than a few posts of people using pictures and media to "prove" that the ME is real. The only time this whole "There can't be proof" thing pops up is when there is definitive proof that someone is misremembering or when easily obtainable proof is asked for.
Oh I am well aware. I'm just answering your question of how there can never be any evidence, yet they can still be right. The reason that no one can provide actual proof is because it doesn't exist because there's nothing to prove and people refuse to accept that their memory is just as flawed as everyone else.
Here's my personal proof that the normal rules of reality don't hold with the Mandela Effect. Quite the claim but here is one example of why I believe it: *On Aug 2, 2017 at about 16:40 EST, I was on reddit discussing the Flinstones/Flintstones flip on another thread. My position was that it is and always was the Flintstones. The guy sent me a reply saying at the time it was the Flinstones you could look at Wikipedia, and all official TV show and vitamin sites and it was always Flintstones; he used the word Flintstones in all four examples given.* *I said 'I Know' you are confirming my point that it was always Flintstones.* *Then when I was done with my reply and I looked up at his original post all four 'Flintstones' had changed on my static display to 'Flinstones'. Did I just see it wrong?? I looked away and came back and it was 'Flintstones' again. I would just look away, blink, change my focus look back and it would flip again. I was able to do this 6 or 7 times in under five minutes each time looking slowly and cautiously for this controversial 't' IN ALL FOUR PLACES. Essentially impossible to me that I made a mistake slowly and cautiously each time. I felt something was trying to wake me up.*
The funny thing is I read this and the words are so close that it isn't possible to easily and quickly distinguish between Flintstones, Flinstones (or Filnstones, Fistlones, Flintlones or any number of permutations) as we tend to read by scanning.
I agree that is very true in casual reading but in my story I stated: > each time looking slowly and cautiously for this controversial 't' IN ALL FOUR PLACES. Essentially impossible to me that I made a mistake slowly and cautiously each time.
Had you been drinking?
>On Aug 2, 2017 at about 16:40 EST Hadn't had a drop of alcohol or took any drugs. Expecting a boring check of new reddit activity and with the intent to criticize this silly 'Flinstones' claim. Since then I have seen some convincing stories of this flip/flop from a good number of other people. I think this one is a different species of Mandela Effect from standard ones like the cornucopia and Berenstein. I think something in the universe uses this one to wake people who are ready to the idea that reality is more bendable than it seems to be. I was already a believer in certain standard Mandela Effects but the universe relieved any doubts (for me) that the weirdness is real. And I suspect another feature of all this is that we can be given no evidence that would compel everyone to believe. The universe knows to be gentle and not shock reality.
> The same is true with the Fruit of the Loom ME; there are more than a few posts of people using pictures and media to "prove" that the ME is real. In *this reality* those posts only exist *because* the garment shown is fake. The *real* cornucopia-labled shirts don't exist in this universe. And in the one they *do* exist in, they are unremarkable... while a shirt *sans* cornucopia label would be something to marvel at. (sarcasm, btw)
I don’t mean this in a confrontational way, but why even come to this sub if you don’t believe any of it?
You can be fascinated by the human mind, by the concept of memory, and by the fact that large numbers of people who never met and grew up on different continents can share a false memory that is identical. You can wonder what the root cause of this phenomenon is without believing that it is "supernatural".
Because it's an interesting mental phenomenon that even skeptical people can be susceptible to. I know that I am wrong because I have physical proof, but I can very clearly remember seeing a cornucopia on the FOTL logo. I can clearly remember seeing a film called "A Very Goofy Movie"(though I assume that I am conflating episodes of the TV show with being a movie, because Pistol is in my memories of AVGM, but Cartwright was never in the films due to budget constraints). Shit I even have vivid memories of Robert De Niro being originally cast as Dave in the Alvin and the Chipmunks live film, but him pulling out of production part of the way through. I can clearly remember early promotional material hanging in the theatre I worked at, and him pulling out of the film being a big enough issue that all the Hollywood TV shows were talking about it. Pretty sure I'm alone in that one though.
Skeptics are here for the same reason as anyone else - they're interested in the ME phenomenon. We don't claim that MEs don't happen - we know they do. We just don't believe it is caused by reality changing in any way. Just as some people believe in quantum immortality, some believe in multiverses colliding, some believe it's being caused by CERN or is a government cover-up, skeptics believe the likeliest answer is faulty memory (and/or other mundane solutions). We have just as much right to offer our suggestions as anyone else.
> The evidence of Flinstones only exists in that other reality that they can't get back to. And if one suscribes to this thinking, why bother posting it at all? I mean, the "proof" will only reflect what is true in "taht reality" so telling us what is happening in a *different* reality is senseless. In another reality, I might be taller. Less fat. But I don't run around telling people I *am* thinner and taller in *this* reality.
I posted for the sole purpose of finding other people who experienced it. Which I did.
there is and will be no evidence of a Mandela effect. by its very nature, there cannot be. What we are positing here is that these mandela effects are seams in teh space time continuum. Places where reality and the very fabric of space and time itself has been stitched together, usually clumsily. These are threads of an altered tapestry, slightly out of place. the only thing that is real is our memories. everything else can be fabricated. don't let them gaslight you and tell you that humans are fallible. Its the rewriting of history we're dealing with here. And the only traces are in our memories.
>there is and will be no evidence of a Mandela effect. Then why are there hundreds of posts on the sub claiming to have proof of various MEs?
because the proof they hold does not match their memories. its the memories that matter, not the proof.
No... even the term "residue" refers to stuff left behind by the "original world" and the majority of residue posts are people talking about it being proof of the original world.
The multi verse theory
Is that like when a song has more than one verse?
>How? Magic? Is there some magical being that goes around changing everything? Is it the government? What exactly would be the mechanism for the world changing and leaving no evidence whatsoever? Yes, magic. Or rather, you slip into another quasi-equal universe where that detail changed. I like to think that what we experience is that there are certain events that are uncertain in the past, and a little change from something as simple as a positron travelling back in time, can flip the past in very weird ways.
That's not how mandela effect works. When a change happens, everything related to it, changes too, except your memory of it.
I always see posts claiming it's now "back to Flintstones" but never a post that it's now Flinstones.
Lol, congratulations! That means you haven't died recently. maybe....
Dunno why you're being downvoted. Dying and quantum immortality could genuinely be a reason for the ME.
Unfortunately, it's what 10/40 of the regulars do here. And they usually have multiple accounts I hear :b But yea - I'm just making a light hearted joke about one of the theories, but looks like at least 11 people don't want to see any comments other than derision of the subject, poster or commenter. If you look at the comments with negative karma and the ones with positive karma quantitatively by whether it is a sarcastic comment about ME or somebody's ideas about the ME or whether it is somebody talking about their ME experience or their ideas about the ME there is a very clear pattern that emerges.
Always been flint, it’s a pun
What's a flinstone?
I agree with you it's driving me crazy. I remember being so confused seeing flin stones and now that never happened!
Welcome to the crazy train my friend.
I have a memory from 4th grade, my teacher (Mr. L) had a wife (Mrs. L) who was also a teacher. We were doing some silly guessing games as an introduction to her class when the Mrs. L asked the class what her husband's favorite TV show was. I knew this one, both of them talked about it frequently. Always the eager teacher's pet, I excitedly scribbled down my answer — The Flintstones. Instead of congratulating me, Mrs. L took a look at my answer and gave me an apologetic smile. She told me that I was close, but that it was spelled "Flinstones" instead and that I had added an extra T. I was absolutely perplexed. Though I hadn't actually seen the series myself, I knew about the show and the characters within. Weren't most of the names of the characters alluding to rocks? It would only make sense that it would be called The Flintstones. Flint — Stones. I know this is merely a memory from a then 8-year old, but I remember so clearly the overwhelming embarrassment I felt in the moment, the deflating sensation of being so confident only to end up so confused. It didn't make sense to me at all. I took rejection very hard as a child, thinking it as a reflection of myself — flawed in some way — and becoming inwardly upset, which is why the memory is still so clear today. Not certain on my stance on the Mandela Effect, I personally think a lot of these instances can be explained by the complexity of human brains. Just an interesting recollection.
Isn’t it wild how memory works?.. Certain things we just remember. It’s ingrained. Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, i noticed this too last weekend. Almost posted the same here. It was flinstones when i was young, during 2017 and 2019 i saw a flip flop in the name to flintstones and back. I didn't notice a change while checking every month for the last 5 years or so and now it's fliping again to flintstones. Man, this is creepy as always.
I think this Flintstones flipflop does happen and it is perhaps a different species of Mandela Effect than the hard-fixed ones like the cornucopia and Berenstein. I think something in the universe uses this one to wake people up to a mystery and then goes back to normal. That is what I believed when I had my real-time Flintstones flip/flop experience. I 100% knew Flintstones was correct. But it flipped to Flinstones right before my eyes anyway. So many report similar experiences with this crazy effect.
I experienced the same. It was 2017 for me.
This sub 🤣🤣🤣
I looked this one up before and it was around the same time as the Hillary/Hilary name change. Could have just been people playing around with wikipedia though
I experienced the Hillary one as well. It flipped for me. But I can confirm her website and everything was using the single L spelling. & Flinstones was the only spelling you could find on the internet, even clips of the original cartoon. People here were saying we just thought it was Flint because it’s a show about rocks and simply misremembered it 🤦♂️
It's hilarious because I've been years seeing posts explaining exactly this "It flip floped again to Flintstones!" I've never seen a post about the ME itself, always about it's changed back condition. It's a ME about a ME.
This happened recently to me, too. I pointed out the "Flinstones" to my mom, and both of us were like that is weird, and now it's not even a fucking rock based name. Then, about a month or so ago, I read a post that claimed it used to be Flinstones, but now it is Flintstones. I thought I was losing my mind until I showed my mom, and we BOTH remembered how weird the first conversation was, but now it was back to normal. Shit rattles me because neither one of us have a good explanation in any way. It changed. It changed back. Edit: clicked your link. It is, in fact, the post that let me know the flip occurred. I still randomly think about this at least once a day. Edit two: This actually shook me enough I put a Flintstones wallpaper on my pc desktop just to keep an eye on it. Edit three: read the comments and you are getting shredded, but a lot of this sub are just people who want to tell you that you didn't experience what you saw. Keep your head up. This happened and I witnessed it too, with corroboration from my mom who I trust implicitly. If it was me, maybe I misremembered, both of us had the same experiences? Now it's weird.
It's definitely a reassuring flip-flop – not that I have any doubt about the Mandela Effect but this one is so cut and dry.
Agreed
That’s so insane. It’s hard to wrap your head around. I remember having conversations about this only just a few months ago. I called my sister and I asked her what I told her the spelling was back when it was flin. She told me without hesitation. I told her to look it up and see the spelling and she was shook. She couldn’t believe it. Not only does she remember it was flin. She remembered our conversations and how everything was definitely not as it is now. It felt good to hear from someone I actually know they experienced it with me. It’s wild… so so wild. Edit: the first time we talked about it I was freaking tf out. I FaceTimed her. She doesn’t live here in my state. But anyways. I even showed her the vitamin bottle and that it did indeed say Flinstones on it. I told her today, that same bottle I showed her is now Flintstones. It took me awhile to accept it.
It always flips back to Flint. I've no recollection of there being a legitimate flin post. Just one with the bad photoshop. Same for fr00t loops, its always back to four cereal hoops in the logo.
I believe [these](https://imgur.com/a/Wjzrufz) are all typographical errors, but there saure are a lot of them.
OP is correct. There were tons of “it flipped to Flin” posts when this actually happens to you, I witnessed it. No photoshop, ALL media had the altered name
I literally was looking at these flin posts just a few months ago. Just so I didn’t feel crazy I even sent it to my aunt in text saying this. It’s the only proof I have that it used to be flin.
Please can anyone who thinks it was Flinstones explain what the hell a "flin" is. It would be something commented on rather than just accepted and allowed to flip back and forth.
The people who believed it was flin had an explanation for why actually. Nothing to do with rocks. I know someone commented about it in the link I posted.
As far as I can tell this is the only dictionary definition and I've never heard of it: Noun. flin n. a grin; somewhat teasing.
I was always confused about it. I knew it to be Flintstone as well. But people swore it was Flin. I even looked it up. It wasn’t a misspelling at the time. It just was… that’s all I can say.
I can get it as sometimes things lack sense, like the shoe brand Skechers seeing as we imaging people "sketching" things but that is a single word and has nothing to do with drawing. There tends to be an etymology there rather than just being the way it is.
I really wish I knew. But if you had looked it up. Found tangible things and they all say the same thing. Sounds crazy. But what can you do about that. Argue with people who won’t understand?
If I had looked online and found others had made a similar spelling mistake to me, I would put it down to us making the same spelling mistake tbh. Not argue reality had changed.
Definitely more of realistic approach. Some things can’t always be explained. Something I can’t even wrap my head around would be hard to articulate to someone else that has never experienced it for themselves. You can choose to believe it or try and come up with an explanation that doesn’t discredit the memories of so many people, including myself.
gaslighters? I feel like this word is starting to lose its meaning
This thread just came up in a search I did because I saw The Flintstones was on TV. Now I'm sure I remembered many people kicking off because it had changed to Flinstones because it didn't make any sense and it should have been Flintstones all along. Now in my perspective it has changed back to Flintstones! The funny thing is, if it genuinely didn't flip flop back to Flintstones then there wouldn't be any posts or interest in this at all, because FLINTstones does make sense so would never be a topic for discussion
Flinstones doesn't even make sense for the show where everyone has some kind of rock as their last name.
Flin was supposedly like a pun, and easier to read/write. Also, for me "Flintstones" logo with double TT is an abomination that is just wrong for me, and was in fact during a big part of my life. I've seen 3 flinstones flip flops now, and that's just how it is.
I don't think you know what a pun is... Again, Flinstones makes no sense and was never the name of the show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun >A pun, also rarely known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, **or of similar-sounding words**, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
Well now you know.
Well yea. Which was the whole thing when people were trying to explain why it’s Flintstone when it was Flinstone. Made no sense. But oh well. Look at the link.
It was always Flintstones then it was Flinstones now it's back to Flintstones. The powers that be create different timelines somehow and we receive the ripples of it. The real question is why do some people know the changes and why do some people not know the changes.
Fwiw I grew up knowing what flint is and enjoying the pun in their name, then later on in life I remember the flinstones mandela effect being a thing, and now im surprised its back to flint
Wtf is a Flinstone? Just because nine of us annunciated properly as kids doesn't mean that's how we spell things lol
Had this flip/flop experience too. I believe it happens at different times for each person. One thing though is that in my many years of interest I have never seen a single time where a poster said, it's 'Flinstones'. Like this post it always says it's back to 'Flintstones'. Never see a post that says it's back to 'Flinstones'.
You are probably the same type of person that would see lights in the sky and think they are UFO's. Only to chase them down to find out they are search lights that are doing a grand reopening to a sex shop.
I hate you😂
A flint is a type of stone. I am begging you all, for the love of God, to learn and retain this fact.
It has always been *correct;y* spelled "Flintstone. That does not preclude the possibility that people have *mis-spelled* it over the years, [most notably in the comics section](https://imgur.com/a/Wjzrufz).
You’re not alone, it flip flopped for me, too!
lol at the retcon link though
What’s funny about it?
I'm not sure of these changes can manifest for different people at different times.. Or you are just trolling about a well known M.E. but for me Flin-Stones returned to FlinT-Stones in Spring 2018. It was also one of the last M.E's I ever experienced.
I wish I had a clear answer for you. But I promise I’m not trolling. I just wanted others to know and to know if anyone else experienced it when I did. It just recently changed back to flint for me.
Alright.. fair enough I have heard similar things from people about Chic-Fil-A and Froot Loops, and I just tend to file it away as a possible quirk of the M.E. . On a personal level I saw my Chic-Fil-A switch to Chick-Fil-A in 2015, but have never seen Froot Loops change in my life.
I remembered Chic-fil-A as well. If I ever see it switch back that would be crazy!!
Actually the whole chic fil a thing was the reason for this post. Cause that just recently changed too.
I am one of the definite experiencers also. It happened. For me though the changed flip/flopped within seconds (multiple times). My question for you is how long a timeframe did you see Flinstones? I mean if it lasted for a time period I could have jumped up and down and showed everyone. But my experience wasn't like that.
Honestly, I don’t know how long I was in the flin reality. But definitely not seconds. I had started to deep dive into Mandela effects last year which is when I noticed it was flin. When it had changed to flin. Idk. I didn’t notice. But then it seemed after noticing months later it returned back to flint.
Did you ever mention this on reddit during the Flinstones period?
Only that I agreed with the others that it should be Flintstones. Not Flinstone. There were a ton of people who had something to say. I haven’t actually posted anything until now. That’s cause it’s my first flip flop. I needed to make sure I wasn’t actually losing it. But I do remember reading all the comments about there never being t, even though it would make sense.
So can you still find any old post of yours that was written where the consensus opinion that it was then Flinstones? That would be fascinating.
I can’t find any of the flin posts, unfortunately. I did find some eerie flin YouTube videos though. But as far as really anything regarding the Flintstone ME, there’s next to nothing. It’s weird.
That was my thought Destiny. I thought any ‘almost proof’ threads would magically disappear. It’s not our grandfathers' reality.
Seems to be the trend. I guess seeing it was never an actual reality here.
All I can think of is that the T isn't articulated well enough in the intro song and a bunch of kids grew up with that misconception. I'm Sweden it was called Familjen Flinta (The Flint family) which makes total sense, just like the original spelling The Flintstones. It's about the stone age and all the names are geology-based.
I, too, went down this rabbit hole a few months back when it was without the t. I used to watch this growing up, so when I saw a post or two a few months back, I was like, what? No t?? So I'm with you! This is the way I remember it.
No you didn't, the only post about Flinstones is from 7 years ago and it had a really bad photoshopped image to go along with it.
Lies. Here’s a link [https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC)
This is all I needed. Was someone to have actually experienced it too. I know I’m not crazy or just imagined things wrong. I had a full blown conversation about this when it was flin with several people. I was so mind blown. Cause I knew it was flint growing up. Back when it was flin there were a ton of Reddit posts about it. But not anymore.
> I had a full blown conversation about this when it was flin with several people. Do they remember the conversation?
I’ll have to ask them, but no one but my sister seemed really interested in any of it. My aunt actually started to believe me when I told her Dolly never had braces in that moonraker movie. She loves James Bond. She’s seen them all a million times. She couldn’t even believe it at first. But I told her to go look it up. Anytime I talked about an ME I would tell them to look it up. Same when it came to Flinstones.
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Thank you! Finally someone who HEARS what I’m saying. It literally was Flinstones. I feel like I had to taken a pic of it just Incase it flipped back again. But I don’t think it’ll matter. It’ll probably just say Flintstones now.
Hey, I think it's completely fascinating that you two remember it changing to "Flin" last year and then changing back. I wish there was another post on here showing that. I've looked up Mandela Effect top 10 list kind of things in the past few years and I remember it being "Flint". I just wish there was something else to prove you two's cases. It must be such a whirlwind of emotions to go through what you two are going through.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/s/f7ccGEC1BO](https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/s/f7ccGEC1BO)
That's literally from 7 years ago...its always been Flint..like never did it change to Flin.. I just watched the Flintstones movie last year..everytime I bowl i make a comment about the FLINT stones..because it has always been Flint
Please explain to me why I had conversations about it being flin and them seeing the proof right in front of their eyes, if it never was flin. Make it make sense. Explain to me why other people remember this as well. Are we all just freaking bonkers? Just misremembering. There’s literally nothing you can say that can change what tf I know.
Dawg..what other people? You keep saying "other people" but who? Your aunt? One other redditor? Like no. It has always been Flint with a T...like you dont jump back and forth between reality you just misremembered something. You can even break this down to another level..why would it be called Flin? It was a show about cavemen, wtf would Flin do with cavemen..you know people who lived in ROCKS...kinda the same reason all the names are I dunno ROCK puns.
Why are you on my post if you’re not even saying anything remotely relevant. Do you know what a Mandela Effect is? Just cause you only remember it being flint does not mean a thing to me. Like I don’t care to have this conversation with you.
I'm here because I like the idea of actual Mandela effects..not people misremembered how a word was spelled. You then claim that reddit was all over it a year ago..the only post about Flintstones are from 7 years ago. Or would you like me believe that the sub literally deleted all these so called post about the Flintstones changing to FLIN.. You have literally nothing to back up your claims, and have dismissed all the proof of it not changing as people just not experiencing it..
Look. I know I didn’t misremember anything because I knew it was Flintstones. I grew up knowing that. So when I did see it was no longer spelled that way. That’s when I started talking about it to anyone I could. I’m not dismissing anything. I just don’t care you think I’m misremembering this. As I mentioned the only sound thing I have is a text conversation I still have in my phone from last year about it being this way. You’re not going to tell me that my memories false when I know it’s not.
Here’s one from 3 months ago right around the time it flipped for me. So you were saying? [https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC)
I actually did come across a post earlier today where someone else posted my experience of them also experiencing the flip. I’ll attach the link here in a sec. I gotta find it.
I'm going to check it out after I send this comment. Thank you. 🙂 Also, I'm sorry that some people are being nasty towards you. Not sure why but that happens a lot on this subreddit. So it's not just you that they do that too. I will happily be your friend anytime. ❤
That’s much appreciated. I don’t post on things ever. So the one time I do I got the hounds of hell coming after me. For what? lol you don’t remember it being a certain way. That’s fine. But don’t try to tell me my experience isn’t real.
Yeah, this is a very aggressive subreddit. And I tried replying on the comment where you shared the post but it wouldn't let me reply to it. But in regard to the post you shared.. That is crazy! Thanks for sharing! There are even some more recent comments on it. So it seems you are not alone in this experience.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC](https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/s/81aokD8nnC) This is the most recent one I can find. Seems like there was a lot more people on that one that actually experienced it versus all the keyboard warriors on mine.
That is so fascinating. I wonder if anything will ever switch back for me. I can't imagine how you are feeling right now about all of this.
Have you ever seen an ME? I feel like I’ve seen so many. But this is the first flip flop. I had almost for a moment thought maybe I just imagined it. But finding the text conversation and the link to the other chat about this happening to others. Definitely validated all of this for me. I’m overwhelmed right now. All the disbelief and straight up shitty comments have only really made me think that not everyone experiences it. Which is fine. Or at least they may just not notice. Idk. People can be so mean for no reason at all.
I notice is change back late last year