In late 2016, The Mary Sue posted an article comparing the Community episode to "our own" darkest timeline. Meanwhile, the phrase was used often to relate to the candidacy/presidency of Donald Trump. On October 18th, 2016, The Angry Video Game Nerd published a video about the Berenstain Bears Mandela Effect that gained over 2.2 million views (shown below). The phrase began seeing more use online in 2016 with the rise of Mandela Effect phenomenons, particularly the one relating to the spelling of Berenstain Bears. The Mandela Effect and The Trump Presidency On December 30th, 2013, a blog for the NBA team the Brooklyn Nets published an article about their bad season titled "This Is The Darkest Timeline." On May 10th, 2014, a thread was posted to /r/OutOfTheLoop looking into the origins of the phrase's popularity online.
The user confirmed that the title was a reference to the Community episode in the ensuing thread. On May 12th, 2012, Thought Catalog published a post engaging with the multiverse theory in regards to a breakup, saying that the breakup was "The Darkest Timeline." On November 19th, 2012, Redditor PunsAreFun published a Pokémon ROM hack titled "New Rom Hack! Pokemon TDT (The Darkest Timeline)" in which the player plays as a Team Rocket Grunt. The show continued to reference "The Darkest Timeline" through the remainder of its run.Īfter the airing of the episode, the phrase "Darkest Timeline" began seeing use by fans and soon spread into other communities. The episode ends with Jeff picking up the pizza and things returning to normal, but during the episode's credits, we see what the group's life is like in the future after Troy picks up the pizza, which Abed coins "The Darkest Timeline" (shown below, right). In the character Troy's vignette, Troy leaves to get the pizza and a series of incredibly unfortunate events occurs, resulting in one character getting shot and the apartment lighting on fire (shown below, left). The character Abed warns Jeff, "You are now creating six different timelines." The episode then shows what happens when each character picks up the pizza in a series of vignettes. In the episode, the character Jeff Winger rolls a six-sided die to determine which character will pick up a pizza order. On October 13th, 2011, the Community episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" aired. The multi-verse theory was first posited by Erwin Schrödinger in 1952 in Dublin, Ireland, when he said his Nobel equations seemed to describe several different histories that were "not alternatives, but all really (happening) simultaneously."
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