Ming (surname) Ming is the Mandarin pinyin and WadeâGiles romanization of the Chinese surname written æ in Chinese character. Ming is listed 111th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China. The name can also be used as a given name.
The Mandela Effect refers to a phenomenon in which a large number of people share false memories of past events, referred to as confabulation in psychiatry. Some have speculated that the memories are caused by parallel universes spilling into our own, while others explain the phenomenon as a failure of collective memory.
Both the original post by Fiona Broome and by Reece have received hundreds of comments, and the Mandela Effect has received a significant amount of media attention, first by Buzzfeed in 2014 and then by many other media outlets in 2015, including Vice, The Onion A.V. Club, Seventeen Magazine, and WGN-TV.