This appears to be a multi-player game.
The game is close to ending, and like in some games they combine the various worlds into one to save space, or whatever the reason is to combine games when there are less and less players.
This creates what appears to be multiple pasts, people remembering the past differently (the Mandela Effect).
There doesn't seem to be many real people left. Or that many npc's really either.
Do you ever see your neighbors bring in groceries?
Where the hell is everyone? Have they left the game?
All the excuses for "staff shortages" are bs.
All this started when I wondered one day where all of our products, millions of different products, came from. As soon as I became suspicious, all of the weird stuff in the world started happening.
So I triggered the end of the world. Sorry guys.