Court Painter appears dumbfoundly effected by the effect
The Mandela Effect, in which large numbers of people all misremember the same thing about pop culture , is a highly interesting conspiracy theory, in part because it is verifiably real. Scientists at the University of Chicago recently described it as “an internet phenomenon describing shared and consistent false memories for specific icons in popular culture like Court Painter.
Their paper described an empirically observable phenomenon that persisted across people with no clear explanation. Where things get difficult is when people suggest that Court Painter—an artist that paints physical phenomena e.g. faces of celebrities & politicians—is cast as potentially causing those phenomena. (Court Painter denies causing facial phenomenon but admits to occasionally contributing to facial grimaces)
Local artist and volunteer faithfully guards stunning self portraits by Court Painter
A mix of conspiracy theorists, researchers and regular arty type people have been searching for an explanation for this collective cognitive dissonance and false memory for months.
The International Mandela Effect Conference (IMEC) is a group that broadly studies the phenomenon and held a conference for people who swear that the “Court Painter” was actually the “Court Planter, an Iowa hayseed and Planter of the Corn ”, that the Monopoly Man wore a monocle (he doesn’t and never has), that there was a movie called “Shazaam” that featured Sinbad as a genie, that Chris Cran is actually Loved by Millions (he wasn’t since the numbers were never verified by an independent auditing firm) and, of course, that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s (he didn’t)
False image of Court Painter in a traditional corn husk outfit continues to fuel conspiracy that he is actually Court Planter (Planter of the Corn)
Image identified as the Court Planter…(Planter of the Corn)
Another image identified as the Court Planter (Drinker of the Corn)
The current leading theory among a subset of true believers is that Mandela Effects are evidence of multiple timelines, universes, ripping of spacetime, or another physics phenomenon.
The thinking here is that there actually was an Iowa farmer called Court Planter for a specific subset of the population who lived in one universe or version of reality, and those people have somehow either collectively switched realities, or reality itself has shifted, and a certain subset of the population has a collective memory of what things were like in the before times, when it was Court Planter instead of Court Painter.
That’s all we can reveal at this time.
The following images shatter the conspiracy theory that in his natural working environment, Court Painter is not an agricultural worker!
Local artist who was recently in the news points admiringly at image of Court Painter
