New Mandela Effect involving Mister Rogers' death

So I somehow managed to find myself at Mister Rogers' wikipedia page, and I noticed something that struck me as odd. I noticed that Fred Rogers had passed away in 2003. From what I recall, I remember it came as a shock to a lot of people and I quickly fled to YouTube to watch video clips of Mister Rogers and I remember reading all of the comments about how sad people were that he had passed away.

I distinctly remember one young girl who said she never saw him on TV (since his last show aired in 2001), but that she was devastated because he seemed like such a nice man. The problem is that YouTube was founded 2 years after his alleged death. I remember his death being much closer to 2009-2012, and that's what also inspired the biopic of Mister Rogers starring Tom Hanks, which was released in 2019. Why wait 16+ years to create a biopic about Mister Rogers? Studios are usually quick to jump on a money-making opportunity shortly after a celebrity dies.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I found this article in the L.A. Times archives, the URL displays the date of Fred Rogers in 2003, but the article for his obituary was written in December of 2014??

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-fred-rogers-20030228-story.html