Current Events > Mandela Effect: Will Smith never says 'Welcome to Earf' in Independence Day

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10/24/23 9:03:15 AM
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pick4six
10/24/23 10:57:38 AM
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https://www.gq.com/story/will-smith-never-said-welcome-to-earf-in-independence-day

Yo thats crazy tho, either thats the biggest Mandela Effect of all time or theyre trying to re-write historical events itself. Welcome to Earf was a wide spread movie inspired meme, when you say those words everyone knows youre referring to Independence Day

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Dakimakura
10/24/23 10:58:39 AM
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Welcome to earf tc

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PoopPotato
10/24/23 10:59:19 AM
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Oh, I thought it was gonna be that the scene didn't exist. Carry on

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SquantoZ
10/24/23 10:59:28 AM
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The only Mandela related effect here is racism

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lilORANG
10/24/23 10:59:38 AM
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They literally link the clip where he says it in the article....

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boxoto
10/24/23 11:00:31 AM
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lilORANG posted...
They literally link the clip where he says it in the article....
where he says, "welcome to earth"

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lilORANG
10/24/23 11:01:00 AM
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boxoto posted...
where he says, "welcome to earth"
Which is the quote.....TC is probably just racist.

This is hardly Mandela.

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Error1355
10/24/23 11:01:03 AM
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Any particular reason why you were reading 2016 articles about Independence Day on GQ? lol

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pick4six
10/24/23 11:03:21 AM
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Error1355 posted...
Any particular reason why you were reading 2016 articles about Independence Day on GQ? lol
Because I said it to my co worker this morning and she said that he actually doesnt say it like that in the movie and I looked it up and found out its a Mandela Effect

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boxoto
10/24/23 11:03:56 AM
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lilORANG posted...
Which is the quote.....TC is probably just racist.

This is hardly Mandela.
sorry, I misread your post.

I thought you were saying that it was "earf", or sounded like it.

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Southernfatman
10/24/23 11:04:43 AM
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Always sounded like Earth to me. Samuel L. Jackson never said "A Sith lawd" either.

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Hayame_Zero
10/24/23 11:06:04 AM
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SquantoZ posted...
The only Mandela related effect here is racism
See also people remembering that there was a black genie movie in the 90s, and just immediately figured it was Sinbad.

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ironman2009
10/24/23 11:07:39 AM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
See also people remembering that there was a black genie movie in the 90s, and just immediately figured it was Sinbad.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/1/AAa0vfAAEs95.jpg

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creativerealms
10/24/23 11:09:56 AM
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That's more people just making fun of how Will Smith sounds.

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Jagr_68
10/24/23 11:10:28 AM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
See also people remembering that there was a black genie movie in the 90s, and just immediately figured it was Sinbad.


ironman2009 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/6/1/AAa0vfAAEs95.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/2/6/AAUQbgAADovu.jpg

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Umbreon
10/24/23 11:12:57 AM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
See also people remembering that there was a black genie movie in the 90s, and just immediately figured it was Sinbad.


I don't begrudge people for not remembering Kazaam properly.

Sometimes I have to double check and make sure that movie actually existed and I didn't accidentally eat 'special' brownies as a kid.

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Darkfire12
10/24/23 11:14:16 AM
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Jay Leto never said "it's morbing time" either

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boxoto
10/24/23 11:15:50 AM
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creativerealms posted...
That's more people just making fun of how Will Smith sounds.
nah, it's more like how they believe a caricature of black people would speak

that's why it has persisted so long

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VeggetaX
10/24/23 11:16:09 AM
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He never said "Oh hail naw" either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_5QdHp04E

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aarrgus
10/24/23 11:21:16 AM
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creativerealms posted...
That's more people just making fun of how Will Smith sounds.

Or, and this is the more likely thing, people conflate him saying "Welcome to Earth" with his next comments where he has the cigar in his mouth and says "now that's what I call a close encounter". Had he said "welcome to earth" with the cigar in his mouth he likely would have pronounced it "earf".


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ClayGuida
10/24/23 11:22:10 AM
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Aww hell naww

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Villain_S_Fiend
10/24/23 11:25:19 AM
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SquantoZ posted...
The only Mandela related effect here is racism
This. The only reason his clearly enunciated "earth" got memed into "earf" is because he's a black guy with sass.

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ghettoraider81
10/24/23 11:25:27 AM
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Southernfatman posted...
Always sounded like Earth to me. Samuel L. Jackson never said "A Sith lawd" either.


Yup, its just A Sith LORD?!

Weird to put emphasis on lord but is defiantly doesnt say lawd

Its all just thinly veiled racism in that black peoples sound like that.


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Jagr_68
10/24/23 11:25:35 AM
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aarrgus posted...
Or, and this is the more likely thing, people conflate him saying "Welcome to Earth" with his next comments where he has the cigar in his mouth and says "now that's what I call a close encounter". Had he said "welcome to earth" with the cigar in his mouth he likely would have pronounced it "earf".

Why does any of this shit matter though...

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aarrgus
10/24/23 11:28:55 AM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Why does any of this shit matter though...

What matters is for many people they "remember" that he said "earf" because of the cigar, not because of racism.

The propagation of the meme can be racist but for a large number of people it's simply because they misremember him saying it with the cigar in his mouth.

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FortuneCookie
10/24/23 11:32:01 AM
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He actually says earse. There's a slight lisp to it.

It was always a racism meme meant to make Will Smith sound stupid.
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PoopPotato
10/24/23 11:32:45 AM
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Sinbad was a genie in something. Maybe a commercial, maybe a cameo in a show. I (mis) remember it, and so do many others. You wouldn't mix up Shaq and Sinbad.

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Nok_Su_Kow
10/24/23 11:35:43 AM
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He never said it because it was always welcome to earth.
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Ivynn
10/24/23 11:39:46 AM
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aarrgus posted...
Or, and this is the more likely thing, people conflate him saying "Welcome to Earth" with his next comments where he has the cigar in his mouth and says "now that's what I call a close encounter". Had he said "welcome to earth" with the cigar in his mouth he likely would have pronounced it "earf".

Haha yeah, for a while I remembered him saying it during the cigar part of the scene and not him punching the alien.

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Umbreon
10/24/23 12:40:24 PM
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I could maybe possibly see "Welcome to earf", but "Sith lawd" is 100% bullshit.

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NoxObscuras
10/24/23 12:42:56 PM
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This. The "earf" part is strictly for the memes. It's not a mandela effect.

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Foppe
10/24/23 1:02:34 PM
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The whole point with that meme was that he didnt say Earf...

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boxoto
10/24/23 1:22:11 PM
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^ a lot of people legitimately believed he said it, but even as a meme, it's weird.

like, he says "earf" because he's black? like with the Sam Jackson "sith lawd" thing

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Foppe
10/24/23 1:24:15 PM
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4chan gotta 4chan *shruggs*

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boxoto
10/24/23 1:27:53 PM
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truu, I remember those days

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PMarth2002
10/24/23 1:34:02 PM
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Somehow I've never heard anyone say it was welcome to earf. Didn't even know it was a meme.

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ironman2009
10/24/23 1:34:33 PM
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We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here

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majin_nemesis
10/24/23 2:12:11 PM
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i don't get it ,he says welcome to earth where's the mandela effect?
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rags_alt
10/24/23 2:14:03 PM
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... It was always earth.

I feel like I've seen "erf" memes, but it was always earth.
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