Ah fuck, I grepped the YouTube transcript for WASM/WebAssembly but I guess youtube's automatic captions aren't very good. I feel silly now for not watching the video before commenting.
Ohly because the VM WebAssembly physical hardware address to running program memory address 0 isn't actually mapped to physical hardware memory address 0.
Note: think there's a way to convert this to some shorter, massively recursive C pointer, to pointer .... to pointer declaration explaination.