Britney Spears Toxic Music Video Mandela Effect: Explained<\/p>\n
If you didn\u2019t know, when a bunch of people are genuinely convinced that something that never happened, well, happened, it is called the Mandela effect<\/a>. The phenomenon got its name after it was discovered that many people falsely believed that Nelson Mandela was dead several years before he actually died in 2013.<\/p>\n Other examples of false memories that huge groups of people genuinely believe to be real can be found in the form of popular brand logos and names<\/a>. For example, did you know that footwear company Skechers has actually never been called \u201cSketchers\u201d? Or that there\u2019s not a cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo?<\/p>\n And it goes without saying that there are also tons of examples of Mandela effects in pop culture: Pikachu\u2019s tail has never had a black tip, Shaggy never had a protruding Adam\u2019s apple in Scooby Doo, and Hannibal Lecter never says the words: \u201cHello, Clarice\u201d in The Silence of the Lambs.<\/p>\n Heck, many people quote that famous Star Wars line as \u201cLuke, I am your father,\u201d when the correct quote is simply: \u201cNo, I am your father.\u201d<\/p>\n And another example of a pop culture Mandela effect is Britney Spears\u2019<\/a> \u201cToxic<\/a>\u201d music video, which was released in 2004. If you visualize it in your mind, you probably have a vivid memory of Britney wearing an obvious sheer bodysuit that has been covered in diamonds in the video.<\/p>\n However, in a 2016 interview<\/a> with British talk show host Jonathan Ross, Britney actually revealed that the diamonds had been stuck directly onto her body \u2014 the sheer bodysuit in our collective memory never existed.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not actually an outfit,\u201d Britney told the presenter at the time. \u201cThose are just hand diamonds painted on me. Well, glued on me.\u201d<\/p>\n Jonathan couldn\u2019t hide his shock at this revelation, asking: \u201cWow, were they glued on your body? Or on a bodysuit?\u201d Britney confirmed: \u201cGlued on my body,\u201d and when Jonathan double checked: \u201cOn the skin?\u201d she said that this was indeed the case.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re wondering, when asked how she got them off after the shoot, Britney admitted: \u201cI don\u2019t remember what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n Needless to say, this snippet blew minds when it was shared on social media, with many commenters insisting that they remember seeing a body suit.<\/p>\n