Erik

*This article is about the semi-fictional host of Internet Comment Etiquette. For the real life YouTuber, see Erik Hoffstad.*

## Biographical

### AKA

Big Money Salvia, BMS, Salvia, Daddy's Good Little Boy[src]

## Series

### Portrayed By

Erik Hoffstad

"*And... post!*"
―Erik
Erik, also known as Big Money Salvia, is an educator, a former member of the Society of Etiquette, the mayor of Big Money Salvia City, and the main host of Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik.

## Biography

### Early Life and letsGOtoCLASS

Erik was born circa 1940. As a child, Erik would close his penis in a door and run away from it, making it long and stupid.[src] Some time early in his life, he began using adrenochrome to achieve eternal youth. In 2008, his father left to go get ice cream and never came back.[src]

Erik started posting on YouTube in 2007 using the letsGOtoCLASS channel, and he became famous when videos of him smoking salvia went viral in 2008. He swore he would never smoke it again, but later agreed to smoke it for television. In 2009, he became the creator and host of Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik.

At an unknown point prior to 2013, the immortal Danish king Skjöldr infiltrated Erik's body and began to take control. By August 2012, Skjöldr was able to take full control of Erik's body, and Erik's soul was banished to the Red Wasteland. Skjöldr maintained control for five months before accidentally using Google+ to free Erik.[src] Time moves more slowly in the Red Wasteland by a factor of one thousand, so Erik was imprisoned for approximately 400 years. He seems to have little to no recollection of this time. Skjöldr has taken control of Erik following this, but Erik has increasingly learned to control Skjöldr, and he can sometimes expel Skjöldr from his body through sheer will.[src]

### First Etiquesette

To better teach his students etiquette, Erik moved his classroom to its own dedicated YouTube channel at the start of 2015. During this time, he became a full member of the Society of Etiquette and began instruction as a professor. In January 2016, Erik was contacted by Alternate Erik to fight The Omega, but he didn't have time so they went without him.[src]

On December 31, 2016, Erik sought to learn how to hate.[src] He was successful after discovering his hate for New York City, but the hate became too intense and he began to violently spew blood while leaving hateful comments on a variety of topics. The hate eventually put him in a coma, though he was still able to tweet during this time because his coma forest had good reception. He came out of his coma by January 18 in anticipation of his next lesson.

In 2017, Erik starred in the short film Erik Drinks Wine and Gets a Haircut. During the events of this film, Erik and Lady Hair Erik separated into two separate entities as Erik turned into Pineapple Erik. As the year progressed, Pineapple Erik turned into Rotten Pineapple Erik. He then split again, with Rotten Pineapple Erik remaining behind as he turned back into regular Erik.[src]

On Halloween of 2018, Erik released the demon Malum and discovered that he had become a ghost.[src] The next month, he entered The Big Money Space Race.[src] He formed Unlimited Salvia Space Rockets LLC and competed with Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, the American government, and others to get to the planet Nibiru. After Bezos was killed by Amazon warehouse workers, his consciousness sent Erik a rocketship and Erik traveled to Nibiru. He made contact with a Nibiruan, and it nut-tapped him and teleported him back to Earth.[src]

### Second Etiquesette

Erik moved to a new home in 2019 and built a new Etiquesette. Erik also had two major health scares in 2019. First, he caught the measles, but he recovered after spreading it to countless children.[src] Later in the year, he discovered that he met the criteria for obesity. Erik started a new health routine, but a side effect of this routine left him blackout drunk for three weeks and he has no recollection of this time.[src] He also got a dog, Narfi, during this time.

In 2020, Erik went into quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though he did begin to hallucinate, eat his guard Mike, and go out to hug some strangers.[src] During this time, Erik's secret consumption of adrenochrome became public knowledge,[src] he lost his ability to laugh,[src] and he dedicated himself to making the perfect ad.[src]

Following the pandemic, Erik's life became increasingly hectic in 2021. After failing to cope with his drinking habit, he lost his position at the Society of Etiquette.[src] He traveled to The Moon and set up Moonbase Salvia, but he discovered that he was not the first person to build a base on the Moon. After NASA attempted to evict him, he sent the Moon hurtling out of orbit.[src] Returning to Earth, he caused major unrest by creating a cryptocurrency that accidentally destroyed all cryptocurrencies, resulting in his getting kidnapped.[src]

A variety of supernatural events occurred to Erik leading up to Halloween of 2021. He was forced to reveal his true form of Dark Warlock Salvia to defend himself when Malum returned, and Erik was able to trap Malum in an enchanted buttplug.[src] Erik then sought to discover the nature of a ghoul and summoned one, alongside some goblins.[src] Finally, on Halloween night, the ghost of P.T. Barnum appeared to Erik and challenged Erik to entertain him. Erik complied, but Barnum decided to turn Erik once again into a ghost and allow Erik to serve him in the afterlife.[src] Erik also got a job with Better at this time, but he got laid off during a Zoom broadcast.[src]

## Relationships

At an unknown point in time, Erik married Janet. His secretary then found a video on how to date a separated man and blackmailed Erik into leaving his wife. He asked her for a divorce in 2012 during a Comment Quiz of the Week on letsGOtoCLASS. Some believe that he later killed her with a shovel and buried her under a gazebo, but these allegations are unproven.

He began dating Veronica some time prior to 2015. It's unknown if or when they broke up.

Erik has also been in a relationship with Bernie Sanders.

## Trivia

* Erik is known to eat lots of hoagies, cheesesteaks, and pussy.
* Erik's great uncle Ferdinand Sopreto Salvia is the inventor of the pneumatic press.
* Erik enjoys first person shooter games. His favorite games are Battlefield, Rainbow Six, and Pavlov, and he'll only play games that have teamkilling enabled. He also plays Second Life where he mains a giant Hillary Clinton head.
* Erik does not believe in God. He has claimed to be an atheist in comments, but he's also on first-name basis with the goddess Helja.
* Erik has a tramp stamp of the Illuminati symbol.[src]
* Erik once had a cat, but it died of COVID-19. He laughed at that and it marked the last time that he laughed for months.[src] He also had a dog earlier in his life, but he threw it into a ravine after it barked and interrupted his ASMR video.[src]

## Non-Appearances

Erik is the host of Internet Comment Etiquette, so he appears in most videos. He appears in all EXCEPT for the following:

* Being a Woman Online (hosted by Veronica)
* Optimizing Your Youtube Channel with Erik (replaced by Digital Erik)
* God Responds (hosted by God)
* Who Killed HitchBot? (hosted by Private Investigator Erik)
* Skjöldr's Scary Story Halloween Special! (hosted by Skjöldr)
* The Man in the Book (hosted by Skjöldr)
* Musical Twinks (hosted by Veronica, appears briefly in a video as The Amazing Salvio)
* Lady-Bots (appeared in the form of Lady Hair Erik)
* Soy Boys (appeared in the form of Bad Boy Salvia)
* UFOs (appeared in the form of Moneystacks Salvia)
* Masks are for Losers (appeared in the form of Bad Boy Salvia)
* 2020 Halloween Special (appeared in the form of Dr. Salvius Moneystacks)
* This is Just an Ad (appeared as the NordPass Wizard)
* The Dark Arts (appeared in the form of Dark Warlock Salvia)
* JFK Jr. Jr. (hosted by John F. Kennedy Jr. Jr.)

## Gallery

Erik in 2009Erik in 2015Lady Hair Erik in 2017Pineapple Erik in 2017Rotten Pineapple Erik in 2017Erik in 2019Erik in 2020