If Statement in MySQL Select

According to the docs a if works as follows:

IF(expr1,expr2,expr3)

If expr1 is TRUE (expr1 <> 0 and expr1 <> NULL) then IF() returns expr2; otherwise it returns expr3 [...].

Here is a random fiddle that represents my problem: http://ift.tt/1pO2Rgr

Basically what I'm trying to do is the following:

SELECT IF(whatever, 1, 2) FROM testing WHERE whatever = 'abc';

Since there is a record there that matches my WHERE clause it basically means that whatever won't be 0 or NULL like specified in the docs. Then why am I getting expression3 as result?