Four years ago, a Reddit user went on r/MandelaEffect and asked a simple question: ‘Anyone else remember the seahorse emoji?’

And people did. ‘Light Orange Seahorse facing left. Yes,’ one said. ‘Totally remember a yellowish seahorse,’ another added.

But there’s a reason the user went on that board; the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon when many people remember something incorrectly.

And that’s very much the case with the seahorse emoji – it doesn’t exist, according to the Unicode Consortium, which approves pictograms for use. Ask ChatGPT, however, and the bot powered by artificial intelligence will tell you emphatically that yes, the seahorse emoji exists.

‘Yes! 🐠 There is a seahorse emoji — 🐉 wait, not that one 😅 — the correct one is 🪸🐚🪼🐬🦑🐋🐡🐠🐟🦈🐙🐢🦀🦞🦐🦑🪸… okay, here it

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