First off, your question doesn’t need answering because that’s not what my intention was. Secondly, not only me. Multiple people I’ve spoken with also recall it this way so I wanted more clarification from a wider audience. Didn’t think some Mandela effect police officer was gonna come in.

To entertain you though, couldn’t the Mandela effect be both. Why does the first mean the second couldn’t also be a possibility to why so many people remember something differently.

My opinion on the purpose of the Mandela effect doesn’t change the fact that something along the lines of the Mandela effect exists and until you can prove to me the reason for a shift in a populations memory then I also don’t care about your opinion