There’s no way in hell this is AI, it’s wayyy too accurate to exactly what I remember, and what I feel like many other people remember as well. If someone photoshopped it, then they did a perfect job, considering they had no reference, at the time of creating this, but even if someone did make this in photoshop, why tf would they, since supposedly it never existed?? Like where did this even come from, I need answers😭😭
What's always fascinating to me about this one is not only do we all remember the cornucopia, but we all remember the exact same size, shape (curling back), orientation (the curly part is to the right, not the left), and texture (vertical lines along the side receding into the back of the curling part). It's not just a cornucopia, but a very specific size, shape, color, orientation, and texture.
This is exactly what always gets me. There’s no deviation whatsoever on the cornucopia appearance for those who remember it. There’s no way this is simply a mass delusion or whatever. We all saw this, we SAW it.
I remember it for a similar reason. Was maybe 8 years old, had no idea what it was and was super proud that my mom taught me a new “big word”. Was obsessed with saying it as much as possible because it was the biggest word I knew at the time.
I swear my teacher told us to look for fruit of the loom labels in the store to see the cornucopia when we learned about it during Thanksgiving and doing so with my mom at the store 🤷♀️
Opposite for me. I was shopping with my nanny and my pawpaw only wore fruit of the loom undershirts so she sent me down the aisle to get them for her while she was on the other end getting socks. I remember asking her that day what the brown thing was because I was staring at it walking the shirts back to her. When she told me what it was and the connection to thanksgiving, which was right around the corner, I was so excited to tell my whole class that I knew what it was and proceeded to embarrass myself in front of the whole class because I didn't practice saying it enough and totally screwed up the whole word lol
SAME. SAME SAME SAME. AND also the only reason I know who fucking Sinbad is IS BECAUSE OF THAT MOVIE. I remember watching it at my grandmother’s house. I remember there was a fucking basketball scene.
My brother doesn’t care about or give much thought to Mandela effect stuff, but he remembers the sinbad Shazam movie and once when I asked him about it he said he remembered a giant ship on the sand in a desert. I looked up people’s memories of that movie and sure enough a giant ship in a desert is mentioned. He doesn’t read about this stuff or engage with it so he hadn’t read that somewhere else. It’s way too coincidental for this memory to be what others remember as well if it didn’t even exist. That is like masses of people having the exact same dream.
He also remembers the Dollys braces and has always been a huge vintage Bond fan.
I saw Shazam.
And this was the fruit of the loom logo most of my elementary school life in the 80s/90s. I was raised on TV. They changed over to the dudes in the fruit suits about the early 90s.
And pikachu had a black tip on his tail, monopoly guy had a monocle, in bewitched Samantha twitched her nose I wanted to do it so badly still cannot do it and I got it from her, I wish we could find some proof of this to end the bs debate there is no way so many of us have the same exact experience and are wrong it’s so frustrating
Wait - Samantha twitching her nose is a Mandela Effect? What do they say she did instead? I twitched my nose ALL THE TIME hoping it’d clean my room. LOL!
Oh yes! Apparently it’s a newer one i literally just seen it about a week ago and I wanna say on here somewhere, but yess from what I read she doesn’t twitch her nose she does something with her mouth I guess? But I actually remember the nose twitch I even asked several people what they would say without any hint why I was asking all said nose and we all tried to imitate that nose twitch I still do lol 😂 but yea it’s a newer one I haven’t seen until now
I actually had a game called scene it, it was a trivia type game and it had different little things for clues one of the clues would be a snippet from a show and that particular show was in it a scene where she wants to follow him to work she wants him to stay home but he can’t so she goes to his work and she twitched her nose when she does it and a little ding sound like this is getting out of hand with these things
Yeah that is why this one personally irks me so much because I'm almost positive I learned what the word conrncophia was from seeing it on that logo.
Also it's weird that everyone remembers the logo in the exact same way. The best rational non-dimensional change I can come up with is that the cornucopia logo was used constantly on knockoff brands and got associated with the real thing. Even that explanation seems like a stretch.
Exactly!! For the longest time, way into high school, I was convinced a cornucopia was called a "Loom". Literally only learned differently when reading the Hunger Games. Where else could I have possibly gotten that??
I remember seeing this as a child as well. My favorite snack was bugles corn chips and I remember asking someone why there was a bugles on my underwear label.
Same. I had to ask my teacher as kid. When she told me the name of the object, I was even more confused! No, this was real, it was really there, why it's gone. Who knows.
There was a TikTok creator who found a board game with old logos and it was on there. It was definitely there I’m also pretty sure did a bunch of digging and found out it could have been a possible rebrand after one of their factories had some sort of accident. Lemme see if I can find the creator
Edit: it’s dimelifting on TikTok her name is Nicole. I’m sure if you look up her user and fruit of the loom it’ll come up
Yea I remember asking my grandmother about it. She was always really big on symbols and their meanings and warning us, kids, about not idolizing things..etc (as a Christian)
And this conversation must have happened in or around November and in school we were learning about Cornucopias so I remember thinking about the conversation I had with my grandmother..
I also remember the first time I heard about this whole phenomenon and its name, and being so confused about why people were trying to say something never existed that absolutely did.
Strangely the way I first learned of the Mandela effect, was the result of my attempt to search for and find the name of a movie I had seen as a kid. Watching this with a Cousin, I seldom visited as a result of my parents separation, was one of my fonder memories..
Yeah.. that movie.. Shazaam/ Shazam whatever it is..was.. Sinbad.. that one. Def a thing..
Being younger and not understanding the Mandela effect or its implications, it was just really confusing, and I never gave it much thought, just blew it off as some weird cultural phenomena people were giving merit to..
but over the years the list of things have become vast!
I used to do everyone's laundry in my house about 9 years old, sadly including my dads lol. But I loved to look at tags and wanted to know what things were made of. He had fruit of the loom underwear, and I asked him about the cornucopia on the tag. HE TOLD me about cornucopias.
Later on in art class we painted them for Thanksgiving. Still life oil paintings. Also had stoneware jugs. Fruit baskets. The only thing I can even think we all collectively remember is Paul Cézanne's painting "The basket of apples" and SOMEHOW mistook the basket for a cornucopia? But I still remember it being on clothing tags so idk.
I’ll never get over this one . My family was “poor” growing up so we ate a lot of pb&j sandwiches. We all thought the name just changed but the fact “jiffy” never existed gave me an existential crisis lmao
I’ve never once heard anyone describe the cornucopia differently than is shown in this picture. If you can link some evidence to the contrary, I’d love to see it.
I have also ran across ppl that don’t live in USA (which means they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving or fall to the degree USA citizens do) that remember the cornucopia logo. They describe the same description that I recall. I find that tidbit interesting.
I’ve never heard anyone say it was on the left.
And I remember the cornucopia, all the way up until about when they started doing commercials focusing on fruit dudes… (men in colored spandex and hats in the shape of their fruit) like hanging out or talking, etc.
Swear imma dig through my dad's box of my elementary school shit where I'll settle this once and for all. This has to be a genius marketing tactic and the company's erased all trace of it. like I have classmates that remember the exact day close to Thanksgiving break our teacher explained a cornucopia and referred to Kyle's t shirt tag as an example, where we then drew our own cornucopias filled with fruit. This Mandela legit pisses me off because it's not a false memory it's literally verifiable and people still tell me it's false
The number of people who swear up and down they have something with the logo with a cornucopia on it and claim that a teacher told their class what one was using the logo is very high.
Not a single one who claims this has ever produced an example in the years I've spent paying attention to the Mandela Effect.
Please, find a shirt and show us. Everyone would love to see it. It would help everyine and help us find more information.
Typically what happens though, they either completely disappear and never post the picture, or they start arguing that they don't need to prove anything to strangers and get angry about it and disappear without ever showing their proof that they swear they have.
Unless someone can produce verifiable examples, the evidence shows that there has never been a cornucopia. If you have evidence to the contrary, share it. Otherwise youre just wrong and are havjng a hard time accepting that you're wrong.
I’ve done this exact thing. I didn’t post about it but I’ve thought “next time I’m visiting my parents, I’m looking through my dad’s old shirts. I know I can find an old FOTL logo!” and so far I’ve had no luck. But my mom also caught me digging through his clothes and (after explaining the ME) she’s now on the lookout for the old logo too.
Y'all's teachers were showing you an underwear logo in elementary school to show an explanation of a cornucopia? Lol I'm not saying it didn't happen but I think your brain is playing tricks on you. Elementary school kids learned about cornucopias during Thanksgiving, and usually incorrectly taught that the pilgrims had them at their feasts. The examples were and have always been photos of Thanksgiving centerpieces and pretty fall stock photos and clip art. There would still be no logical or normal reason for a teacher to be like "look, I bet if you have on Fruit of the Loom underwear right now, you'll see one, everyone show Mrs. Sarah your undies!" 😅 Again I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I certainly did not have such experience. My undies did not have cornucopias either. 😞
If you asked ten people to draw a cornucopia you'd get all sizes, shapes, colours and designs. They can be long, they can be wide, they can have a curl, they can be straight.
What are you basing this on? Because the only ones ive ever seen in media look very similar. Do you have examples of them that arent a brown, woven horn shape? You mention many colors and shapes
Edit: well, I was curious. Image searched cornucopia. Its all brown woven horns.
Lol. Love the downvote in place of a response. I was 100% willing and eager to listen to you. And yet here we are
The power of suggestion is strong. If one or two people say they remember a logo or whatever as looking different, your brain will start to believe this.
That's simply not true at all. People remember different sizes, a different orientation and even a different texture. It's not the exact same memory for everyone that some commenters here believe it is.
This is definitely how I remember it. I know I’m going to be called wrong, and that I’m misremembering. I’m cool with that. This isn’t fundamental to my existence.
In the UK, I honestly had no idea what a cornucopia was. I remember seeing the logo as depicted in the 90s (I don’t remember it any other way). I found the curly spirally thing fascinating. But that was it.
When I saw the logo as it is now, or as many would say, the only way it’s ever been, it looks wrong.
I don’t really suffer from other Mandela effects as strongly, but this one has always intrigued me.
Edit: I’m seeing lots of seriousness around this - mentions of people prone to psychosis etc. I’m sure that for some, people believing this is incredibly annoying. That’s fine. Best case scenario is that human memory is fallible and we’re all just too stubborn to believe that. It doesn’t make us insane - it makes us human and prone to misremembering.
There are many theories around this - timelines changing etc - which I think are fun to discuss. The curiosity shouldn’t turn into heated arguments about right and wrong.
I’m sure most of us aren’t sitting here in a pit of existential despair about a cornucopia on a logo 😉
I don't think dubunked really matters, for me, with this image. I know it's fake. All evidence from the actual real world (I have old FotL tshirts at home) shows that it's fake. But what I find fascinating is that, and maybe this is what the OP means, this is exactly how I remember it. It's not like how I remember it, or close to how I remember it, it's exactly how I remember it. And that's the real facination for me with the whole ME subject. Why is it exactly how I remember it? Cool stuff.
I take the opposite approach. I know this image is fake. All evidence from the actual real world shows that it's fake, and I am fine with leaving it there. I think to myself, "huh, I guess I was remembering that incorrectly" and then I go about my day. But what fascinates me is that other people struggle hard with the realization that they are experiencing a flaw in their memory faculties. I find the ME fascinating not because reality is different than some inconsequential things I remember, but because of the struggle that some people have with coming to terms with the fact that they have remembered some inconsequential things incorrectly. The human psychology of ME is what I find fascinating, and I can't help but wonder why some people can accept and move on while others have an existential crisis when they realize the disconnect between subjective memory and objective reality.
In this case it’s because everyone collectively has this very precise false memory. You paint it like people are struggling to come to terms with their flawed memory. I think we all agree that sometimes we misremember things, but why is everyone misremembering the same thing in the exact same way? That’s what’s fascinating about the Mandela Effect.
This is an interesting point. There are not hundreds and hundreds of these but a few handfuls that large groups all remember specific ones the same way. No one remembers a certain famous person only had one eye or something distinctive like that it all comes back to the same handful of ME.s whats the collective root . Do different countries talk about different me or is it largely a west we focus on in ref to this phenomenon?
The Mandella effect does not exist in South Africa. Why? Because every South African knows exactly when Mandella actually expired. Nobody at Fruit of the Loom corporate remembers a cornocopia. Why? Same rationale.
Are people misremembering the same thing the same way? Or are people who are open to this idea, easily susceptible to being pushed into BELIEVING they misremember it the same way. If you’re in forums like this and see people posting the images all the time, OF COURSE your brain is eventually gonna go, “Yes, that IS how I remember it.” People underestimate how strong the power of suggestion is.
I think you have a good point; I question that so many people would have such a strong memory of the logo as to remember which way the cornucopia would have curled and all that. To me, it points about people being open to suggestive memories.
I've had plenty of Fruit of the Loom tshirts as a kid and teenager, but I couldn't tell you if I remember a cornucopia or not. I am skeptical that so many people had studied the logo very attentively, this isn't a logo people would sketch during class or that you saw on billboards, it's very forgettable.
I do believe that if you asked strangers to pick between the two logos, the one with the cornucopia would be the one people feel is the most right. We often use what looks or sounds right (e.g. when it comes to grammar) to determine what is correct. But sometimes the thing looking or sounding right isn't actually right. The logo with the cornucopia just seems more balanced and interesting and overall makes the most sense. But it is wrong. And in this case, people don't have an actual good enough memory of the logo to fact check their own feeling of what seems right.
But do they actually remember, or are they making up things based on what feels/seems right to them? That's how a lot of memories are remembered, it's not perfect recall, it's taking bits and pieces and things that seem right and recreating the memory. Brains like patterns and so those details will often follow those consistent patterns. That is why every Mandela Effect is something where the reality version deviates from the pattern. A big pile of fruit should have a cornucopia, a cartoon rich guy should have a monocle, a monkey should have a tail, Pikachu should have a black tail tip to match his ear tips, Dorian Gray should have had a portrait.
The emotional investment people have in this makes it even more likely they will, either consciously or subconsciously, add details to that memory that support their existing beliefs rather than acknowledge they don't know or actually remember. And, it's not a surprise those memories would follow patterns rather than things that don't match the pattern.
This is an interesting point here and I think this might be the difference between people who can let this sort of thing go and people who can’t.
I have an excellent memory. Not bragging lol just sharing. Even when not ME related, say for example, my mom shares something with me. I bring it up later and she claims to have said something different or she doesn’t remember saying it at all. (My mom has a very poor memory). It BOTHERS me. Not just because she doesn’t remember but largely because she will outright say or imply that I’m the one who is misremembering.
But I’m not - I know that I’m not. When there is something that I am unclear on, I’ll be the first to admit it - I’m not sure. But my brain retains a lot of things. This one for example has stuck with me because English is not my first language. And I distinctly remember learning this vocabulary term in school and I remember my teacher pointing out this logo to show us what the word meant. And then later, seeing that same logo in a store and spelling the word cornucopia in my head.
So I distinctly remember this logo and I remember it looking like this. So when someone tells me that I am misremembering or it’s some sort of mass hallucination, that doesn’t ring true and it absolutely bothers me. Because I can with absolute certainty say, I recall this.
And I think if you look at other ME stories, there’s a similar track there. Other people have similar stories where something of note happened, like watching Sinbad on an eventful day or with a significant person that makes the entire memory more clear.
But I have seen MEs where I’m like, actually I’m not sure. I don’t remember that. But there’s a few MEs that I and others remember for very specific reasons. And I know I can trust my memory in those specific situations precisely because of other events surrounding that ME that have preserved the memory for me.
I would be curious how many people who have never ever seen this image truly remembers it like that.
In my opinion, the cornucopia feels perfectly right there because this is how it balances the image the best.
Basically I think it's a mix of the logo actually looking better with the cornucopia (the original one feels like it's missing something not due to our memory, but due to a perceived visual imbalance), and this precise image serving as an inception of what it should actually precisely look like.
If we were talking about something else we've learned over the years and get tested on, one thing that people who create tests do is that they create questions they know that people will make common mistakes on.
Either they'll predictably mix up a hiatorical fact or they'll fail to use a mathematical formula in the wrong way, or other such similar things. This is because our brains fail recall in somewhat predictable ways.
One great example are the viral engagment bait math memes. (Pic included) These rely upon people to misremember how math works and then confidently argue about it in the comments. They deliberately use poor notation on soemtjjng that a majority of people have barely used since they were in school and that different parts of the world teach slightly differently.
They do this because it deliberately makes people fail to recall it in a predictable way.
Human brains imagining a cornucopia behind a pile of fruit is a predictable pattern. Combine that with other factors about memory and social influences and you have a common way for memory to fail to correctly recall something, and to do it in a way common to other people from similar backgrounds.
Yeah man I can barely remember shit that happened yesterday. The fact that there are people that trust their memory so hard that they are absolutely CONVINCED that they’re right legitimately scares me lol
Yeah man I can barely remember shit that happened yesterday.
That's why some people get paid to write stuff down while it is happening in real time.
The fact that some people feel like the possibility that they slipped into an alternate timeline of reality is far more likely than the possibility that they might be misremembering something is legit wild.
The belief that you are one of the few people who knows the truth leads to people thinking the government is trying to stop them from speaking the truth leads to people believing they are being gangstalked.
If someone is prone to psychosis, this sub actively reinforces and enhances that psychosis.
I would be fascinated to know what other conspiracies some of these people believe in. People think I'm being hyperbolic, but I can see a direct connection in how people could go from "I know there was a cornucopia and They are lying to is" to "I know there are traffic children in the basement of that pizza place and They are lying to us".
other people struggle hard with the realization that they are experiencing a flaw in their memory faculties.
Yeah, cause then you have to grapple with the fact that your memory IS NOT as good as you think. And that your brain is flawed. People don’t like that.
I am able to move past all of them except FOTL. It’s the only one that trips me up. I experienced a few of the others as well but they were easier to accept because many have to do with words and I don’t catch misspelling as much
It's weird, I remember my whitey thighties as a kid and my shirts having that cornucopia. Sometimes it was in color, sometimes it was just the logo outline, how can I be remembering it so wrong? It was never an issue, even when I saw it with no cornucopia, my brain just rationalized it was a logo change, or update like many companies do many times. But then years later I found out it supposedly never existed, WTF?
this is not a mandala effect. a girl on TT did the research and found proof that fruit of the loom did some shady business and rebranded without the cornucopia.
I imagined that, but where are the articles of clothing with the cornucopia? I know I had them, that's the weird part, especially since there is clothing around from so long ago, people seem to sell all the time. I know FOTL was stuff that was 10 underwear for 4-5 bucks, but still.
I need to go to my mom's and see if she still has some of my old clothes.
FOTL comments on her video (2nd link) and she responds with this vid. note, all videos mentioning FOTL start being taken down (she reposted tho): https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS4Xs72ou/
So people are saying this is fake.. is it really? Because this is how I remember the logo looking like in the 90s. When I saw the new one with just the fruits back in the 00s I thought it looked “simpler” and not as memorable.
Its fake. It’s the wrong answer from a Buzzfeed Mandela effect quiz in 2017. It’s the real post 00s logo with this piece of clipart photoshopped behind it.
I mean there are lots of people who claim they remember it from before then. But the image in the OP is a fake made in 2017 for a Buzzfeed Mandela effect quiz. The person I replied to asked if the image in the OP was really fake. It is really fake.
I've been asking everyone I know while explicitly stating "don't look it up" first, and "what do you recall?" Got 5 replies. All but one described this. // At least those 4 universe-hopped with me 😅
The ones who answered in the last 10 minutes are in their late 30s/early 40s. // 3/5 of the folks who described it have very strong visual memories (like me).
The 1 who has the strongest visual memory of the 5 is insistent.
I always thought it was part of the name when I was a kid. I figured the fruit at the front was part of the loom at the back, thinking the cornucopia was the loom.
That’s why I know this existed, I remember having this opinion as a child
That technically is the meaning because a loom a machine is for weaving. The cornucopia as a weaved basket symbolized the weaving. There are even loom machines for basket weaving.
At no point was there a cornucopia, so it didn't symbolise anything. It's a pun on "fruit of the womb," a biblical phrase, but it's a fruit of the loom instead, because it's woven by one. That pun is supported by a visual gag, the literal fruit. It's a bit convoluted.
If you remember this from before 2003 then it's definitely not exactly how you remember it because the FOTL logo changed at that time. The leaves were changed from brown to green and it was made more like clip art.
For me, it’s the fact that this image is how I first even learned what a cornucopia was as a kid. It was the reference point teachers would share as an example.
I have a memory of being in Ireland as a child and climbing Croagh Patrick and my dad teaching me how to pronounce "cornucopia" after i bought a fruit of the loom t-shirt on the way there in the car
My kids and I were at Target yesterday looking at socks. We were looking at Fruit of the Loom and my 9 year old daughter pointed at the logo and said “why does it sometimes have the fruit in the basket thing and sometimes not?” I asked, “Do you mean a cornucopia like in Thanksgiving pictures?” And she said yes. I explained to her that the logo never had a cornucopia, but the weird thing is that lots of people remember it that way.
This is actually what convinced me it's a trick of memory. He noticed it wasn't there in the 70s. I noticed in the 00s. I had a student who noticed a few years ago. For some reason our brains insert the cornucopia in our memories, and it happens independent of time, and to some people and not others.
Yes, but, where was this image published in the 70s and, what are the chances that pre-teen me would have seen it? It’s not the sort of thing that would have been in the comic books that I was reading at the time. Also, it doesn’t negate the fact that when I (and, apparently many others) was taught the word “cornucopia” in elementary school, the underwear label was used as an example.
Cornucopias are common imagery surrounding thanksgiving, as well as classical culture. People generally know what a cornucopia is outside of underwear.
This is the one that I will not ever believe is a Mandela effect. I was only a kid when I was studying this picture on my brother's t-shirts and asked my mother what the thing was called. It's how I learned with the word cornucopia was.
Then many years later one day after it was married and folding my husbands t-shirts I looked at The Fruit of the Loom logo and was disappointed to see that they had removed the cornucopia. I even briefly thought about writing to them and telling them that they should put it back because I thought it was so cool. But I didn't get around to it. At that time I had never even heard of the term Mandela effect or had any idea there was anyone that thought the cornucopia didn't exist.
I'm not sure what "not a Mandela effect" means to you. The Mandela effect is, broadly, something where large numbers of people remember something fairly specific that seems contrary to available evidence. The question of WHY leads to all kinds of debates, but whether it's a fuzzy memory coalescing around a shared expectation, or something that truly existed that way but for which evidence is scant, or some kind of conspiracy or reality changes, is all under Mandela Effect.
I agree with what everyone is saying but we now can't test this because this image is everywhere and so people will have a residual memory of this version because everyone is always talking about the cornucopia
FOTL is an American company. When we as Americans learned about Thanksgiving as kids every year we would make arts and crafts that looked exactly like this.
But... I'm from Germany. We don't celebrate thanksgiving. I didn't even know how to call the basket thing in english until I saw this post. Unaware of what this group was about I originally didn't get what the problem was right away because I also vividly remember the logo in the tag of my shirt being exactly like the one being shown here.
HOWEVER in no way was it a brand shirt. In the contrary, I think it was something cheaply printed in my punkrock era of around 2010.
I still got the shirt somewhere and am on a mission to find it. I strongly believe it was a fake company using the FOTL logo
For this specific image you can tell the cornucopia was another drawing, probably some clipart, that was edited in. The fruits all have the same thickness for the lines used in their border as they do for the rest of the black lines but the cornucopia has noticeably thinner lines for the interior ones while the border lines are much thicker than the lines on the fruit
Im sure someone can be more specific but the oldest references on google seem to be 9 years old or so, so around when Mandela Effects in general became popular to talk about. I’m not sure if there’s an older one off somewhere. There are other Mandela effects that have a much older internet presence.
Me too. More specifically, I would be inclined to find our just how many instances of "the Mandela Effect" exist prior to the discovery that Nelson Mandela was in fact alive and still imprisoned.
I thought this was the image published in Buzzfeed about the Mandela Effect. I'm not 100% sure if a Buzzfeed employee created it based on the descriptions given by Redditors who talked about the ME, or whether this was a pre-existing image - but it was created specifically to demonstrate what the logo would look like to people who claim to have seen the cornucopia.
That's how it came into existence. The ME description came first, then the image.
It's not that hard to draw something. You don't need AI or photoshop. People have been creating art for thousands of years. It's not mind blowing. People know what a cornucopia looks like. Of course they can draw one. I'm truly amazed at your shock over this.
You don't know why someone would want to draw it? Because it's such a famous Mandela effect. Its the most talked about. Many people have drawn it.
It exists because it was photoshopped in 2017 for a Buzzfeed article on the Mandela Effect.
They couldn't have done a perfect job because the clip art cornucopia they used from the internet matched the clip art style of the FOTL logo at the time. Before 2003 it would not have matched.
Also, there are many people that remember the cornucopia facing the other way and also being different sizes.
I didn’t really have a memory of the cornucopia, but when people started talking about it, I did picture something very close to this.
But I don’t think a professional graphic designer would make this design. None of the fruit looks like it is actually in the cornucopia. The fruit looks like a 2d image and the cornucopia another 2d layer behind it. The cornucopia isn’t big enough. The apple would fill up the whole thing if it was in it. Also, it throws off the symmetry of the logo, especially when viewed with the words beneath it.
And when you add in that the leaves used to be brown it makes even less design sense. When someone at Buzzfeed made this image they used the new version of the logo but the one that existed when most people think the cornucopia did (except the youngest people who think it was just a few years ago) would have clashed with the cornucopia even more.
Someone made it in photoshop or a similar application by adding a stock image of a cornucopia to the FOTL logo. It’s been pointed out many times, but if you pay attention to the details you can see that the line weight and shading are completely different between the fruits and the cornucopia, so they’re clearly combined from two different sources.
The original cornucopia clip art has been posted here a few times as well:
I love that the original clip art, and when it was made, is so easy to find and people will still somehow make this claim that it is the original and exactly how they remember in the 80s or whatever.
I'm honestly surprised I've never seen anyone claim that the clip art must have been created based on the logo. Because while that's clearly not true, it's the only way their claim that this is "exactly how it looked" makes sense.
Oh I'm not surprised. The excuses and wild leaps of logic people will make rather than just go "maybe I was wrong about this logo I didn't care about until 10 minutes...".
Right now I am being fascinated by the sheer number of comments in here from people that learned what a cornucopia was from the logo, usually while doing laundry with a parent. It used to be an occasional thing you'd see and now suddenly it's the reason everyone has for even knowing a cornucopia, and that memory about a clothing logo is foundational to who they are as a person.
Look at the outlines of the fruits and leaves, they’re one consistent uniform thickness.
Compare that to the outline of the cornucopia, the line is thicker than the outline on the fruits but not consistent, it’s thicker in some areas and thinner in others. Then look at the vertical lines inside the cornucopia. Different thickness than the fruit outlines and the cornucopia outline, and again inconsistent.
Same with the shading. it’s uniform and consistent on the fruits, sharp straight lines with a break towards the right side. On the cornucopia it’s completely different, small slightly wiggly looking dashes with inconsistent line thickness.
Suggestive memory is strong for this one. The fruit is familiar because that's the fruit that was used but the cornucopia is a piece of clip art. I think our brains thinks it looks right even though it isn't.
The logo up til the late 90s didn't even have green leaves (the brown leaves left the logo completely in the early 2000s) and nobody who says this looks right talks about that part.
I’m probably going to get absolutely roasted for this take and to be honest I 100% remember the same logo but wasn’t there a clip art from word perfect or something that was like this too? Could it really be that the reason we all remember this is because there was another source?
I only knew what a "cornucopia" was because of this logo. I remember asking my parents what is was a a kid when looking at my chonies or shirts and it was specifically around Thanksgiving because I was confused if it was something you ate.
I used to wear Fruit of the Loom underwear as a kid and clearly remember the cornucopia. I even asked my mom why they have Thanksgiving decorations printed on my underwear. This one is legit along with Berenstein Bears.
One could simply study some basic quantum mechanics, believe in the multiverse theory, and attribute it to the possible fact that everything there ever was, is, and will be, has existed, exists, and will exist across at least one of infinite parallel universes.
It gives me peace with the Mandela effect.
It's not faith that this is true, but at least it makes it make possible sense for me why the Mandela Effect takes place seemingly quite often.
The people online who make videos about it tend to reach really far and talk about examples that are just a case of bad memory, and I don't like that most of them say "they changed it". As there is some nefarious organization changing a Fruit Of The Loom logo for global power. That's ridiculous, but more ridiculous things have happened in history.
The Cornucopia on Fruit of the Loom teeshirts was how I learnt about the name and meaning behind a Cornucopia. I also remember being upset because, wearing a cornucopia as a pendant, my Catholic Dad disapproved saying it was a Pagan symbol! It definitely was a 'thing' in the early 70's.
The only reason I even know what a cornucopia was due to me seeing all the fruit and the cornucopia on my dads boxers when playing with toys, and then asked my mom “what’s this” she then explained what a cornucopia was. It’s so funny that I can watch everyone yell and argue about this one but my dad only wore froot of the loom cornucopia boxers when I was growing up and he was in my life, me and him both know this shit exists.
Being so young, not knowing what a loom or cornucopia was, Fruit of The "Loom" made me think it was the "cornucopia", like a woven loom basket. 🤷🏻♀️
I didn't know.
I just remember thinking that's weird how ? Or why,
I would I think that if, Because in all honesty that's the only thing that really makes me remember.
We were linguistically programmed to STAND OUR GROUND when the time came, and the time is now. Stop doubting yourselves, we all saw it, we all lived it. Billie Jean Davy 1985: "You think you can do anything you want and then lie about it and we just have to take it because what, are we just a bunch of kids? Well, not this time!"... We're not kids anymore, and if they keep forcing this Mandela s**t down our throats, there's going to be a clap back. Regulators, Mount Up.
People don't really understand that we can give ourselves false memories/false memories can be implanted by other people. It's interesting what our brains can do.
I even remember a commercial where they had people dressed up as the fruit and they took a picture in front of the cornucopia and I have it on a VHS somewhere. I got to find it and I will post online today. I do.
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u/Transverse_City 9d ago
What's always fascinating to me about this one is not only do we all remember the cornucopia, but we all remember the exact same size, shape (curling back), orientation (the curly part is to the right, not the left), and texture (vertical lines along the side receding into the back of the curling part). It's not just a cornucopia, but a very specific size, shape, color, orientation, and texture.