This is almost as cool as that time when Charlie did a 360 degree backflip on motorcycle through a ring of fire.

Here to confirm that the Shamwow Dub was not created by Nelson Mandela. Thanks for clearing things up Charlie.

I remember always reading "vaccum" everywhere but it's actually "vacuum"

I just considered “Cheez-its” the plural of “Cheez-it”. When asking for just one I would ask for a Cheez-it and when buying a full box of them I would buy a box of Cheez-its. If you told me one way or the other that it was Cheez-its or Cheez-it, I would believe you either way

Exactly like how everyone believes Charlie is 5’ 6” when he’s actually 7’ 8”

Well, the simple explanation for "Cheese-itz" and "Cheese-it" is that you never have a singular cheese-it. So when people ask what your eating, you say "cheese-its" since you have more than one. And in most cases you are referring to more than one, and eventually when you say it for long enough it becomes a thing in your head.

Bullshit. Multiple of my close friends and I VERY clearly remember Charles making the joke "yup, this puppy will soak up that pile of piss better than grandma's old dish sponge". There's no fucking way me and 4 others all remember WORD FOR WORD that exact same joke being made.

"i tip my fedora to you, quantum time traveler" lmao

There is no Mandela effect, Charlie just straight up gaslighting us for 11 minutes

Charlie really said “it’s shamin time” and rewrote the fabric of the universe

1:30 As someone who almost choked from trying to swallow a Cheez-It whole, that joke was hilarious.

I'm drunk and Charlie's vibe is comforting me. 🙃

I was totally expecting Charlie to go: “I’m actually 6’0 and have been the entire time.”

I love watching Charlie's room slowly be filled up with more and more stuff

One of the most confusing is the "Luke, I am your father" but only because there are several version of that movie. In each of them, Darth Vader says something slightly different.

I remembered a really traumatising scene in a movie when I was a young child extremely vividly, yet when I watched it as a pre-teen nothing like the scene remotely existed in it. Sadly, somehow I've forgotten the movie and what the scene was about; after learning it didn't exist.

People watched his tier list on bad celebrities and as soon as they heard the word "shamwow" fall out of matt's mouth, a new alternate reality was created. THE MOIST EFFECT

I swear to god, I thought he was gonna say how we were all wrong about thinking our pets were cuter than his cat when he was mentioning masses being misinformed.

"Hello everybody it's Kritical, let's do this shit."

To build off of false memories, I always had one about Half-Life 2. During the Black Mesa East chapter, there's a mini anti-mass spectrometer in the room where you first meet Eli in person. It's the thing with the orange gem behind the glass. You can interact with it and rotate the gem using two switches. One switch controls the horizontal rotation of the gem, while the other controls it's vertical tilt. But here's where my false memory comes in. I could've sworn there was a specific combination to these two switches. And that if you get this gem in the correct position, the gem would either explode or teleport itself out of there.

I think the reason people call it “Cheez-Its” over “Cheez-It” is because Cheez-Its sounds better when speaking. You don’t walk into a store and go like “Man I really want some Cheez-It right now.” You say “Cheez-Its” because it just makes more sense for it to be plural, and eventually people kind of just heard it for so long they assumed that’s what the name was and never looked closely at the brand name.

in my cognitive psych class, we learned about how the mandela effect is just a combination of confirmation bias, selective memory and hive mentality + how our memory isn't as reliable as we make it out to be or im just a time traveler trying to gaslight you

I always chalked it up to the same reason languages change over time, someone somewhere made the same mistake as thousands others and it just became that verses the original. Over time they become indistinguishable because it isn't a point of contention until some one corrects or remembers it being different.

I can't believe it's been five years since that infamous day, thank you Charles for making such a wonderful memory for all of us

Charlie could be gaslighting us and we’d never know

Whenever Charlie is on his deathbed his last fevered words; "berenstain bears, berenstain bears!" He'll never forget.

I was about to go absolutely insane about the Critikal thing. I remember when his whole persona was "guy in a hoodie with anime covered eyes"

The 2 I always think of are "Luke, I am your father." From Star Wars "What if I told you..." from The Matrix

I feel like this is precisely what Charlie would say to divert us from the truth.

Kinda funny that Charlie's personality is so unique on KZfaq that his audience can make up false memories of jokes that he never told.

AVGN made an amazing video on the effect that’s a really fun watch for people, same topic and some of the same specific effects. You both rock

the pikachu and monopoly guy had me staying up at night

Charlie is really telling the truth here, just like the time he did a backflip off of a two story building and landed perfectly

This is what happens to us NPC's when the main character overwrites the previously saved game, the data gets corrupted in the matrix we live in 😆💀

"don't you dare mention the berens-"

I remember there being a horn of plenty in the Fruit of the Loom logo. I even remember pointing it out and asking what it was. But it was apparently never there.

Charlie is just such a badass, like that time he beat the shit out of Garcia and did a backflip and destroyed a galaxy.

God that was so nostalgic hearing him say "What's up every body its Cr1tikal" again

I'm guessing there's been a ton of cases where local tv stations or newspapers would write it as 'stein"

one that i am VERY passionate about is the one with the black on pikachu's tail because i remember seeing it and i even drew pikachu with a black tail tip

I clearly remember Charlie saying "I'm gonna make you sham so hard, you're gonna say wow." I laughed so hard I stained my bridges

My favorite part in Charlie’s ShamWow video is when Charlie goes, “it’s Sham time” Truly the video that I remember; I could not take that scene out of my head for years. A moment leaving even the timeline in awe!!!

Dude this happened to me today. I literally thought there was a dedicated Spider-man movie before Homecoming because Homecoming assumes he got into the gig in a movie before homecoming

"but in this universe..." i died 😂

Charlie, I’ve been following you ever since you made the video on the shamwow.

Remember when Charlie could have saved an airplane from crashing but decided to leave everyone behind for personal gain?

walks into debate club “you’re all wrong” doesn’t elaborate and leaves

The fact that my English teacher told me "a lot" was spelt "alot" and proved himself wrong in front of the entire class because he had to loudly proclaim he was checking the dictionary 😂 not all teachers are accurate on things 😂

I watched a documentary one time that proved people can start to forget facts about a situation in as little as 30 minutes. Colors of things, people who were there, what happened, what time is day it was. It's very easy to forget shit.

I don’t think Charlie has realized that with this video format he’s unlocked the world record any % apology video script. All the KZfaqr apologizing needs to do is claim Mandela effect and false memory’s for any controversy in question

I remember mighty morphin turtle brigade was my favorite radio program to watch when I was a kid

They're probably thinking about the real smart mop

My favorite part is when Charlie said "it's moistin time" and moisted all over the place

Charlie: "You are wrong." Me, minding my own business, not knowing what the video is about: "Ya know what, he's probably right."

I’d love to believe that people are just being unknowingly tossed across timelines

That’s not the only thing I choked on.

The nostalgia from hearing "what's up everybody, it's Cr1tikal".

It’s crazy how bad the human memory really is, like a lot of innocent people are in prison bad

I think the Mandela effect happens because when you remember something, you remember the last time you remembered it, not the original instance. You're basically playing the Telephone Game with yourself. But similar to how text is handled in dreams, text we read in our memories gets replaced with the concept of what was written. Like a pointer referencing a string in programming. You 'remember' the pointer, not the string itself. We don't read each letter after all, we only read the vague, pattern-recognized word sizes and shapes as a single unit. (Unless you have some types of dyslexia.) So when we remember that word written down, we know the concept that was there, pick what it most accurately represents (filtered through bias and other similar recollections), and then visualize what we're now thinking about in its place. This lets us, essentially, complete change the words/titles on things to match our expectations rather than our observations. People remember seeing your Twitch username and URL, and just think that's what they saw on your KZfaq URL, since they DON'T remember penguinz0 anywhere near as well. When they remember looking at your KZfaq URL, they replace it with the memory of looking at your Twitch URL. Penguin is tied to lots of other competing memories. "moistcr1tikal" isn't.

i also have vivid memories of the berenstein bears. i remember watching it and very specifically seeing it on the tv that it said ‘berenstein bears’ on the channels program thingy.

The one I always remember is the tv show Sex in the City but apparently, it's actually Sex AND the City🤔

This is almost as cool as the time when moist critical said his hit catch phrase "it's time to get critical"

He's trying to trap us into a genjutsu

"Had to double check and make sure I wasn't the one hitting the crack pipe"

My favorite part was when Charlie rolled up his sleeves and said "It's SHAMMIN time."

I never had the cheese itz one, but the Bernstein bears definitely gives me chills. Another one that gets me is that I could've sworn pikachu had a black tipped tail, but he never did and I played a lot of pokemon as a kid

Once had an argument whether Walmart had a dash in the middle like Wal-Mart

This was such a good prank video lol, imagine making a whole video pretending that you didn't make a video about the shamwow, when the video is so easily findable online

I knew they are called Cheez-It as a brand, but I assumed they were named after a single Cheez-it, so I continued to say Cheez-its as I'm always eating multiple. Looking it up now, the company claims that the plural for Cheez-It is "Cheez-It crackers". I will probably use both interchangeably both because I don't care and it never comes up in my life lol

Charlie you've never ceased to amaze me since your Shamwow infomercial. I'm only 1 minute into this video right now but just wanted to say I have loved your content ever since

My favorite is when a lot of people (including me) remember a movie called Shazam with Sinbad the actor. It was supposed to be a kids movie and Sinbad was a genie, there's even specific details in one scene that everyone around it remembers. People could detail the cover image too. Another is Candle Cove, people try to act like it was just a creepy pasta story first but I remember parts of an episode and even talking to some people that remember it long before that pasta story came out. If reality glitched or universes could merge together like soap bubbles who's to say that there aren't at least a few people that remember details from before each time? And as every thing merged and situations settled the merged or replaced people just don't remember like some others do.

Some penguins are major necrophiliacs

The "Fruit of the loom" logo one is really interesting, since the original logo designer actually thinks the "false memory" is the correct one.

We'd sooner conclude timelines are literally collapsing than admit we forgot or misremembered something. I remember hearing there were interviews done asking people if theyd ever met the mascot bugs bunny at Disney land, after being asked about numerous other Disney characters to prep them, and a lot of people claimed they did. What's crazy, is after asking for details about where or when, they gave answers, and the more they think about the new memory, the more real it feels to them. I still remember seeing Santa in my home when I was a kid.

now watch him invent a time machine and make that infomercial anyways

Bernstein bears is a trippy one. There was actually an incorrect print for a group of the books, so there were books printed both ways.

I remember when Charlie had to travel across the ocean in Australia with an incredibly forgetful friend trying to find his son Nemo kidnapped by a dentist

i remember the cartoon saying berenstain and the books saying berenstein

Actually there was a typo with Berenstain Bears so it was Berenstein for a little bit in parts of the country.

I love Charlie's content. It's still just as good as when he did a backflip, snapped the bad guy's neck and saved the day

7:37 This could possibly be the closest we'll ever again get to a proper "What's up everybody it's Cr1tikal."

„Wait, so it‘s all penguinz0?“ „Always has been.“ *Kingdom of predators starts playing*

I never had the sham wow belief but I did see it as a YT autocomplete, and a bunch of friends mentioning "the sham wow guy"

I have experienced a more localized Mandela Effect. Several of my high school classmates share the same memory as me of one of our teachers coming back to class after her pregnancy, talking to us a bit and making a specific joke to one of our friends implying that he is still a "troublemaker". We all have that memory, down to the minute detail but turns out that the teacher never returned after the pregnancy to our class, we all had already graduated by the time she returned teaching

Now I'm just paranoid that Charlie is gonna come out with a video one day titled "You've been fooled" and reveal that he did dubbed the shamwow commercial

Thats the one the real mighty thirsty!! But yeah that threw me off too

my hypothesis on the Bearnstain bears is that The Berenstain Bears opening song sounds like bearnstein several times.

What's most interesting about this is, it's not just isolated to people from one country, so this isn't mass hysteria. The Shazaam one still haunts me, cuz as an Egyptian i clearly saw the movie while i was a kid in Egypt and so it just couldn't have come from any US influence. i still don't understand how it just doesn't exist. There are people from all over the world (including me) that have this *same* false memory, without any interaction with each other, nor external coercion. We just all collectively knew things to be a certain way and it.. just wasn't.

When it comes to mandela effect relating to movie quotes, those can easily be explained by people just saying the quote "wrong" for added context on the reference. Like people say "Luke, I am your father" to clarify they are referencing Star Wars, there for some people think that is the actual quote.

The critikal thing for me was the first time I heard Charlie in a speedosausage (I think) flash animation that had critikal in the title and voiced by him. Even today I still refer to Charlie as critikal in the back of my head sometimes cuz of that.

i know the video itself was completely unrelated, but something about a charlie video with the title "you are wrong" to just find its way into my feed while im having an anxiety episode was comforting in a bizarre way

I remembered playing outlast with my cousin a couple of years back in which we got all the files and unlocked the secret ending in which the main character would stop the bullets at the end and kill the military men. So recently I replayed it and I got all the files, to my surprise I didn’t get the ending, I thought I did something wrong so I looked it up, I couldn’t find this ending anywhere, So I asked about it on the outlast subreddit, they said there was no secret ending. I was literally dumbfounded, such a vivid memory that I clearly can picture to this day and it’s not real. The universe really needs to stop changing this stuff every update and patch it has.

I'm looking forward to Charlie having to do a follow-up where he has to explain to everyone that he's not actually Emiru's brother.

On the topic of The Berenstain Bears, I vividly remember the old PBS Kids site that had a wheel that moved if you hovored your cursor over the left or right arrow. But when you hover your cursor over the show to browse through the game page, it vocally pronounces the name. I am dyslexic so I never knew how to pronounce "Berenstain" until I finally thought of looking through the games on the site and it said "bear-an-steen", not "bear-an-stain". And I remeber it embedded in my mind like that because I started going on the game site of The Berenstine Bears more often and the pronounciation never changed.

Since this video I wake up from a nightmare where Charlie makes video clarifying other Mandela effect instances, talking that he never collected sex toys and never performed in a movie.

am I the only one that expected this to be eleven minutes of charlie roasting us telling us why we’re wrong. not about any particular subject, just roasting us for being wrong lol

The berenstein vs stain has a pretty simple explanation. It’s written in cursive so your brain may skip over a letter easier than if it was in print. Most would assume it is the typical ending to a name stein and fill in the “a” spot with an e in their mind. And once you say stein once you’re going to skip of the letter a in it forever.

I love doggo cameos

That unreliability of memory is why using eyewitness accounts in criminal trials, where someone's life could be in the line, is such a major issue in the justice system

There's a key clue there. See, Charlie cites that he did spell it Bernstain at some point and the teacher corrected him. A madman would tell you that the teacher was wrong and young Charlie was right. But nay, as we all know, teachers are always right. So clearly Charlie as a child universe hopped from Bernstain to Bernstein then back to the Bernstain hell dimension.