Random: No, Nintendo Of America Didn't Tweet A Pic Of Mario Flipping The Bird

I would be lying if I said Indidnt laugh at some of the tweets these accounts make. Because no official account like this would ever do something like that, but it’s so funny to think so, at least to me anyway.

The amount of people salty that they can't lord over everyone else due to their checkmarks no longer being special anymore is hysterical.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind if this was real.

How to destroy a social media platform without destroying a social media platform.

The verification system is just an absolute mess now. I don't know how Elon managed to make the site even worse than it already was, but here we are

Yeah, that's never going to happen.

There are some ultra weird people on that app..

Must we call every juvenile prank "parody"? Something tells me the good-natured real deals in this field never needed any ticks on any terms - the genre itself is about humorous imitation, not duping the audience into a case of mistaken identity. Granted, Poe's law may prevent us from guessing if the account above was a pranker or just someone wryly illustrating what things might really devolve to.

The fact that the middle finger gets pixelated on American television will never not look idiotic.

It's a good time for the popcorn industry these weeks. Elon must be happy that he can cater the downfall of Twitter to the world. I for one welcome it!

@RupeeClock I knew something was amusing about the name, just couldn't put my finger on it.

I mean... yeah... this deserved an article, I guess...?

I wonder what would happen if all the companies that were "victims" of these parodies filed a class action suit against Twitter and its leader.

@Pillowpants indeed, also, would you like extra butter to go with that? Because I for one think we need the extra stick.

Elon Musk is so stupid, Twitter somehow got much much worse… I knew this would only take a couple days to happen…

Corporations are going to start abandoning the platform if it turns too anarchic. Although I think that'll be due to mismanagement instead of design (Elon Musk doesn't care about "free speech" any more than the corporate executives he just fired en masse).

While its actual implementation was flawed (at some point, it transformed from "we've verified who you are" to "you're a person approved of by Twitter execs"), the blue checkmark was an important tool for keeping track of real accounts. The old policy should have been maintained and more rigorously enforced.

@Rika_Yoshitake I want to remind people that the entire point of verifying an account was to have assurances that account is the real deal. And it was free too.

@Rika_Yoshitake I don’t you (or anyone who liked your post) understand the point of verification ticks…

Growing pains.

@Yosher that's a good thing twitter has always been a terrible platform that helps spread misinformation

It's the users who are at fault here. If people would all act with a certain level of civility and decorum then there wouldn't even be a need for blue ticks.

TBH, this version of Mario is 100% accurate towards any Nintendo fan projects.

Elon Musk is an idiot, how in the hell he became the world's richest man? He is likely like Trump, much of his fortune is fake.

It's so easy to understand that the blue checkmark is not a badge of honor, it's not a way to make your account superior than the others, and it is not a way to make money, there were many jokes about how the worst posts on Twitter came from those who had checkmarks, but the whole point of them is that if an account has the name and photo of a famous person, or the name and logo of a company, it's not an impostor, it really is the person/company, this was made to stop fake accounts who impersonate others, and Elon Musk is so dumb he doesn't get it.

Thanks Elon! For give everybody in internet a free ride to this spectacle! I love you!

@calbeau That’s maybe one of the most naive things I’ve ever heard. Do you expect the entirety of the internet to behave on the honor system? When you have a platform this big you need proper regulations. This is 100% Twitter’s fault, and 100% Elon Musk’s fault considering it’s all a response to his haphazard changes

This reminds me of that one time that a Nintendo parody account posted a picture of Mario and Luigi kissing for pride month.

Oh, they must have accidentally leaked the teaser poster for Oddyssey 2!

@VinylCreep That’s maybe one of the most naive things I’ve ever heard.

You must not hear a lot of things.

Do you expect the entirety of the internet to behave on the honor system?

Nope, nor did I imply that I did. You may have missed me saying "if," which denotes a possibility, albeit a very slim one in this case.

When you have a platform this big you need proper regulations.

I agree, because my "if" statement is exactly that. Regulations are only needed when people step out of line, which they do because we don't live in an ideal world.

This is 100% Twitter’s fault,

The same way a gun is at fault when someone misuses it.

and 100% Elon Musk’s fault considering it’s all a response to his haphazard changes

Yes, I too impersonate Entity A when I don't agree with Entity B's way of running things. This is definitely a logical move.

I only use Twitter to grab Switch screenshots, that's it's only purpose to me, besides that I steer clear.

But I am but an immature child at heart so this made me chuckle.

Me and my Nan used to flip the bird and stick our tongues out at eachother whenever she visited as a kind of greeting, and I did so when I recently visited her grave In memory of those times so I have never seen it as anything more than harmless silliness anyway.

A friend did make me an whatsapp sticker out of it, im having so much more infantile fun that i should 🤣🤣😂😂

@StarPoint,

Or he has done what anyone else would have done, when he was lied to as how much money the site was losing on a day to day basis, plus it might be better if not only one sides views are represented.

@Quarth It does because it just highlights why people like Elongated Muskrat shouldn't be running anything with social in the name.

@johnvboy Noone forced him to buy twitter. And noone is forcing him to do the whole "free speach" facade either or to s*** on advertisers.
Noone forced him to close the deal before doing due diligence either. Or to make verifications on Twttter mean even less than what they meant.

And what is this whole "both sides being represented"? There were conservatives in Twitter before Musk.

@mike_intv I hope to Arceus that happens lol

What makes this better is that actual verified accounts had a special tag that labeled them as official. For whatever reason, they removed that shortly after. Hopefully it doesn't come back lmao

@Rika_Yoshitake I don't know where this thing about the blue tick making people feel special ever came from. It's only ever been seen as a confirmation that it is the person who is tweeting behind the account in my eyes. If people wanted something that made them feel better than everyone else they should've created something new that can be paid for and left the blue tick for it's true purpose.

I swear, Elon is sour about being forced into buying Twitter, so now he's hell-bent on burying the platform 6,000 ft under.

@Entrr_username they were testing that feature, it will come back. And it should.

@KayFiOS for some reason some people forgot that Elon tried to avoid buying Twitter and was forced to because he signed it already (like the totally good buisness man that he is apperantly).

@jowe_gw Yeah he signed it already, doesn't mean he's happy about it lol. He wanted to back out when it was already too late.

@jowe_gw "No one forced him to buy Twitter." Well not initially, but when he tried to get out of the deal, Twitter sued to force him to complete it. The only reason he decided to stick through was that he couldn't find good evidence to win the lawsuit (and after failing multiple times to delay the trial).

I for one can't wait for the tee-shirt. Won't take long, I suppose.

@calbeau

If people would all act with a certain level of civility and decorum then there wouldn't even be a need for blue ticks.

If you’ve used the internet before, you’ll realise that’s… quite a big ‘if’.

@Baker1000 So the thing that would help prevent situations like this is only being "tested"? And I was mostly joking with that "hoping it never comes back" comment. I know why it should come back, but I was just hoping it's gone long enough to give more L's to Elon and the people who approved of his bs lol.

Let's be honest now. I don't think anyone has ever learned anything that's brought real value to their life from using twitter. Its always been a waste of time. Anyone getting upset for whatever Elon is doing with it should take a step back and ask why the hell they were using it in the first place.

@jowe_gw,

Twitter were very misleading about the state of the site when Musk was in negotiations with them, so you can see there were problems from both sides, true he could have checked more, but by the same token Twitter should have been more open in the first place.

And if it's such a representative place, why are so many from the left up in arms about all this, they are upset because it's not all one way traffic from now on. And If you look at the political donations from Twitter staff it clearly tells you where their affiliations lie.

This won’t last long. unless this is worth throwing 8 bucks towards Elon Musk every time they want to make a parody account and then get permaband. Heck, they could probably ban the payment account too since they gave Twitter that information.

@Silly_G
I can only think of a few shows that do this and most of them are to make fun of the other ones. Really not that big a deal.

To be honest, I only use Twitter to share screenshots, aside from that I couldn't care less about what happens to the platform. Though I admit it's been useful to check the conditions on the road when I go visit my sister in another city.

@johnvboy I see three possibilities with the Twitter buyout:
1) The documentation from Twitter old management was accurate.
He knew the actual state of the site and then lied saying that he actually didn't.

2) The documentation from Twitter old management was innacurate.
In that case... why he didn't went to court? He would have data that showed Twitter old management lied to him.

3) The documentation from Twitter old management was accurate... but lacked a lot of details.
In this case it doesn't really show him in a good light. Since it shows he didn't do due diligence.

And again, there were conservatives in Twitter before. You don't have a point here at all. The only thing you have is assumptions.
The thing that tells me a lot is the fact that you are assuming the old Twitter management was biased because of it's political affiliations, which is fine but... you are ignoring Musk also has political affiliations. Very public ones too. Would be wrong to consider him biased too?

Finally, I cannot say who are those "leftists" that are "up in arms". I can only speak about my opinion. And my opinion is that one person having so much power to outright buy a social media site is worring. And him doing so much bull*** shows he doesn't have a plan either.

Hoping Twitter goes up in flames tho. It was bull*** for a long time before the buyout and now it has the potential to be even worse.

Was that tweet even still up at the time this article was put out? I can't find it. Seems like his profile picture was changed too. Or did I type it in wrong?

8 bucks just to play some people for fools a bit longer. What a world we live in.

@StarPoint from replies the fake account was already suspended 3 minutes after the original post by David and I guess more than 15 hours before this Nintendolife article was published. So I think they are responding to this type of content just as quickly as before. The only difference is people are paying them $8 to publish content the will be removed.

Dang. Twitter went from uncomfortable dumpster to uncomfortable dumpster fire real fast. Oof. That’s a tough situation.

Well, that's one way to waste $8.

Too damn funny and twitter deserves all of this (the company and CEO not the engineers working there).

@jowe_gw,

Guess we will have to wait and see.

Twitter is my only social media indulgence and man lemme tell ya, I am loving the absolute chaos over there since dear sweet Elon took over. It's bad decision after bad decision and watching it all crumble is unbelievably entertaining. Tons of people are mad and vocal, stunts like this are proliferating, it's hilarious. Now I'm given to understand that the new verification system is currently region locked, so I am unable to view the bevy of new checkmarks myself. That's a little sad.

@Maxz Hahah, definitely. A guy can dream.

@strollin_stu True, there’s exceptions.

Nintendo of Europe's official Tumblr, which tends to get <20 'notes' (culminated replies, likes, and reblogs) per post, is closing in on 2000 notes for a Mario Strikers: Battle League video captioned "Bowser is going to thrust his hot balls in your direction!". They tweeted the same video, but with a different caption funnily enough.

I feel for whichever Nintendo employee has to deal with this stuff but it is funny

I don't care about the significance of memes, little throwaway sentences and whatnot. Sentences a bit like this one.

I'm happy Elon, Elon fanboys and the far right are seeing this Twatter takeover blow up in their faces. Turns out they're not the geniuses they always tell their mush brained loyalists. Soooo shocking... 😲

Hopefully the site continues to lose money and 🤡 prince muskie loses a fortune.
💵🔥🍷😎

Ninten-Doofus.

I mean come on. I was on the beer last night and even I spotted that. Waste of eight bucks.

Here’s how stupid some people are… it’s like when you get those emails or texts from “your bank” or “from Amazon” saying you owe money or something. It looks all legit… then you look at the email and its 56 characters long or some of the words in the text use 0s instead of Os. Just look at t he Twitter handle. It’s not Nintendo’s. In fact, any of the blue check imposters, their Twitter handles have been nowhere near what the real one would be. It takes just seconds to do your own verification. The whole blue check were giving people a high and mighty feeling of their sh*t not stinking. People need to really learn to stop knee-jerking at everything that happens. The internet has truly ruined us as a species.

I've just been to my twitter profile & was welcomed with introducing NFT profile pictures 🤣🤣

@Entrr_username yes tested. He's even tweeted himself that lots of things are going to be getting changed and removed. This is Elon Musk we're talking about, logic has gone out the window. He's throwing out ideas and seeing what sticks. It's chaotic. Anyway, the Official tags are back today but only on brand accounts.