Well, here's a weird one for you. Earlier today, Nintendo posted a - shall we say - 'down with the kids' style tweet to promote SkateBIRD, one of the games announced during yesterday's Indie Showcase. Now it's disappeared, which has us wondering what on Earth just happened within Nintendo's social media department.
You can see the tweet in this image below (thanks @BombosMedallion / GoNintendo). We can confirm that it's legit - we noticed it pop up on our timeline earlier too, but there's absolutely no trace of it on @NintendoAmerica's account. Naturally, then, it's been deleted, but why?
Did someone at Nintendo jump the gun out of uncontrollable admiration for the cute, skateboarding birds? Did someone else then presumably come along and remind them that the official Nintendo social media accounts are supposed to be for professional posts only? Maybe the goose from Untitled Goose Game got jealous at Nintendo giving another bird attention and sneakily pressed the delete button. We'll never know.
Incidentally, if you haven't heard about SkateBIRD yet, it looks pretty fun.
<3 birbs.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Cat got thier tongue.
The game looks cute but that's about it.
To be fair, birb memes were never funny in the first place
I wonder if there's a character in this game called Tony HAWK
@PBandSmelly they sure weren't, and the less memes nintendo uses the better
I’ve been looking forward to this for a good long while now. Glad we finally have a release window.
probably sounded close enough to <3 boobs that someone told them to take it down just in case lmao
I think the trailer said it wasn't out til late 2020. Think they might've jumped the gun on promoting this mediocre looking game.
@DaCh33f Yep, I’d say you probably cracked it there. Specifically the <3 bewbs that people say... for some reason or other.
Scoot the birbs.
@PBandSmelly Exactly. Which is why they're funny now in the second place
I'm looking forward to this game quite a lot. I think it looks like fun.
@wazlon - Lack of tongue-in-cheek naming it as "Tawny Hawk" would be a dire missed opportunity.
Then again, according to comments here, people hate memes, so it'd likely not fly.
Tweet got covfefe'd.
@Paraka I think SkateBIRD is a wonderful name though. It’s simple, catchy, and tells you exactly what you’re getting. And it’s technically a play on words, but a very simple one.
@imgrowinglegs - My intention was about the secret character as a hawk named Tony. The name itself did not escape my notice, however.
@Paraka Ah, I get ya. I didn’t read back to the comment you were responding to, haha.
cursed Aaron Webber.
Given it was a retweet of their own tweet (both NoA). I think someone on the social media team meant to retweet with the "<3 birbs" comment from their personal account but were accidentally logged in to the NoA account.
Bird up! The worst show on television!
From my understanding it is some kind of meme, probably more poison seeping out of Treehouse.
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