Mandela Effect

"*Now the name Mandela Effect comes from the fact that there's people who remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison. Nelson Mandela, of course, is famous for getting out of prison and going on to become the first black president of South Africa.*"
―Erik
The Mandela Effect is the 64th or 95th lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on either February 15, 2017, March 26, 2019 or April 30, 2023.

## Summary

Erik reads a definition of the Mandela Effect, but it has a redundant use of the word 'happened.' Then he gives an example of the movie Shazaam starring Sinbad that everyone remembers but never actually existed. Then he makes the same mistake he just corrected with the word 'happened.'

Erik keeps reading to see why the Mandela Effect might be happening. The website says that it's because people are sliding between parallel realities. He considers that it might also be caused by people remembering things wrong and points out that Shaquille O'Neal was in a genie movie called Kazaam and that's probably what people are remembering. Then he tweets at Sinbad.

He explains that the name comes from people remembering that Nelson Mandela died in prison despite being famous for what he did after he got out of prison. He puts on a video that shows a textbook proving that Mandela died in 1991, but a comment points out that it's just a collection of short stories written by students and the one he's looking at is an alternate history story.

In another video, someone claims that a Red Hot Chili Peppers lyric now goes "city of angel" when it used to go "city of angels." Erik discovers that Red Hot Chili Peppers member Anthony Kiedis is actually still alive and sends him a tweet. Then Erik notices that Shrek and a Z-RO song both say "mirror, mirror, on the wall" but the Snow White movie says "magic mirror on the wall." He explains that this is residue, or remnants of what things were like before they changed universes.

Erik goes onto r/MandelaEffect and finds a post where some guy thinks that the line "of the world" has been removed from the end of a Queen's "We Are the Champions", but Erik is able to find a performance where that did happen. He makes a post on the subreddit as CURIOUSBETSY and asks for pictures of people's nipples to see if nipple modifications exist in this universe.

After leaving reddit, Erik watches a video that claims the children's books the Berenstain Bears has changed the spelling of its title. Then Erik explains that the "mirror mirror" business is because the original fairy tale had "mirror mirror" but Disney changed it to "magic mirror" for their film.

Since there are so many examples, Erik does a comment montage. He comments on videos about Oscar Meyer vs Oscar Mayer, Cap'n Crunch vs Captain Crunch, Totino's vs Tostino's, "no, I am your father" vs "Luke, I am your father," CERN ripping the fabric of reality, someone debunking the Mandela Effect, and meteorites getting changed.

He stops when he finds a Wikipedia article about memory conformity, which explains the social phenomenon where people's memories are adaptable and not entirely reliable. He edits the page to explain that it's also the Mandela Effect. When asked for a source he links to salviaerik.com and marks his change as a minor edit.He concludes that the internet can ruin your mind, and chalks it up to the Mandela Effect that he remembers learning that in the 90s. Then he sends Ted Cruz a picture of his nipple mods.

## Comments

*@sinbadbad EXPLAIN THIS SHIT SINBAD!*
- @commentiquette

*aint no planet x coming cause aint no space cuz aint not globe earth*
- Sanjay W

*Yo great video but it sounds like you might be from an alternate reality where nobody went to high school. Anyway listen I'm Mandela Effecting all day up in this bitch. Like I'm constantly hearing about people dying and being like “shit i thought they were already dead, they were old as fuck" but that's just Mandela hittin me with his multidimensional moon beams. That evil African time warlock has been fucking up my memory all my life. Nobody believes me either when I say I'm not the one who's wrong, I've got a great memory, it's just Mandela keeps fuckin changing up the universes on me AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER SHAKIRA BUTT CHUGGING A BEER ON STAGE DURING A CONCERT IN GERMANY LOOK OUT UFO INVASION (\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~(\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~(\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~(\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~(\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~(\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~(\_)\_)::::::::::::::::D~~~~~*
- Erik

*@ChiliPeppers Yo welcome back bro! I'm from the parallel reality where a stingray got you and "Under The Bridge" said angels not angel*
- @commentiquette

*I FUCKIN KNEW IT WAS MIRROR MIRROR THANKS Z-RO #MandelaDiedInPrison*
- Erik

*AM I IN THE WRONG UNIVERSE? POST PICTURES OF YOURSELVES IN THE REPLIES EVERYBODY I WANNA SEE YOUR FACES*
- CURIOUSBETSY

*Wow pretty ironic that the thinker has a mandela effect right? Considering the mandela effect is, you know, dumb. I'd probably be less harsh and more tongue in cheek about this if the president wasn't out there making up fake terrorist attacks, which seems like the perfect Yin to your ability to believe any stupid shit that comes your way Yang, all the while presenting a larger problem with how gullible we are as consumers of media and how scientific facts have become boring and stupid in the face of wild theories and exciting "what if's”. I'd blame the Kardashians but in my reality they're all dead because OJ got em. You can call me a nonbeliever all you want but maybe I'm just from the alternate universe where the Mandela Effect doesn't exist.**This comment was brought to you by Audible dot com. Audible dot com: “People are so stupid now that they need their books read to them like children" uhp wait nope their actual slogan is worse: “Listening is the new reading." sorry... universes!*
- Erik

*Yo anyone else ever have that mandela effect where it makes your antipsychotic medication stop working all of a sudden? I could swear these pills were doin their job a week ago but that son of a bitch Nelson must have broken into my house and switched em out for tic tacs cause I'm right back to thinking my mailman's spying on me and that my dog Rufus can speak Mandarin but only when I'm not around. Oh well life's more exciting this way because I'll tell ya if none of this shit was true about the moon landing being fake, or the earth being flat, or vaccines being a government mind control plot, or universes colliding and altering reality, boy I'll tell ya I'd sure look like a real dummy. And not even the kind of dummy like the one I keep in my attic that I dress up in wedding gowns and talk to like its my mother, no I mean like I'd look crazy, and I'm not crazy. Everyone else is crazy and I'm doin just fine. Isn't that right mother?! YEAH SHE SAID THAT'S RIGHT!**PS: I remember when Amazon.com was a bookstore but now they also sell butt plugs WTF*
- Erik

*Stomped my boys dog to this on his dick for hours AND POST*
- Erik

*I distinctly remember never eating this cereal because it tasted like shit. BTW I'm from an alternate reality where blowjobs make me angry and people can't poop unless they're holding hands with their sister so STOP JUDGING ME!*
- Erik

*Hey I got a crazy theory too in that I believe you're thinking of "Tostitos," the popular corn tortilla chip. Here's my source: it's always been totino's*
- Erik

*I might look like a young old Jeff Bridges but I'll still kick anyones ass who doesn't believe in the FACT that multiple alternate realities have collided changing minute details about junk food and song lyrics from my hard to remember formative years*
- Erik

*I FUCKIN POPPED A NUT WHEN THIS DUDE STARTED TALKING ABOUT FABRIC*
- Erik

*Hey you know what else is sneaky? Early onset alzheimer's.*
- Erik

*THIS GUYS FUCKIN CIA*
- Erik

*Fifty Shades Darker HD full movie https://bit.ly/2JFN8iM*
- Erik

*EVERYBODY POST PICTURES OF YOUR HOUSES*
- CURIOUSBETSY

*Yo you like my new nipple mods?*
- @commentiquette

## Context

1. ↑ CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. It operates machinery such as particle accelerators.

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## Mandela Effects

There are two lessons about the Mandela Effect. It's unknown which one belongs to this universe and which one is residue. They are nearly identical with only small changes between them. At any given time, the article above may reflect information from one or both of the lessons.

* The 64th lesson was released on February 15, 2017 by Lady Hair Erik and is titled "Mandela Effect." The 95th lesson was released on March 26, 2019 by regular-hair Erik and is titled "The Mandela Effect."
* There are several minor changes in Erik's wording and tone while presenting the lesson.
* In the first video, the Shazaam images feature Sinbad as a genie. In the second video, the Shazaam images feature Will Smith as the Genie in Aladdin.
* In the first video, Erik reads a comment that says "aint no planet x coming cause aint no space cuz aint not globe earth." This comment is not in the second video.
* In the first video, the comment on the Planet Nibiru video has a run on sentence and six rocketships. In the second video, the run on is fixed with a period and there are seven rocketships.
* In the first video, Erik goes to a video about the statue The Thinker after leaving reddit. In the second one, he goes to a video about the Berenstain Bears and one of his posters falls while he's watching it. This is the only change in the lineup of videos.
* The wording of the Oscar Mayer comment is changed slightly and the words AND POST are omitted from the comment in the second video.
* There's an extra line break in the Tostitos comment in the second video.
* The shady link in the comment on the meteorite video changes. It links to the salviaerik store in the first video and Neon Grizzly in the second video.
* After Erik returns to reddit, he goes to a post about backround vs background in the first video and he goes to a post about Justin Bieber in the second video. The comment he leaves is the same on both.
* In the first video, Erik adds salviaerik.com as a source to his Wikipedia edit and marks it as a minor change. He also expresses joy that he's now a Wikipedia editor. All of this is omitted from the second video, though the citation marker can still be seen.
* Erik's nipple mods in the first video are a clean-shaven, crying Ted Cruz. His nipple mods in the second video are bearded Ted Cruz.
* The first video has two merch ads at the end. The second video omits the ad for the "I learned sex from YouTube" t-shirt.
* The first video ends with a tweet from Sinbad. The second video ends with a tweet from Nelson Mandela announcing that he's still alive.