About

Mario Steals Your Liver refers to a series of YouTube videos built around the narrative that Mario is coming to attack the viewer and take their liver, sometimes presented as the catchphrase "3 days until Mario steals your liver" alongside a "do you accept?" proposition that cannot be refused. After a short scene of Mario breaking into a house by kicking in a door grew prevalent in the late 2010s, others added videos building on the narrative before and after the incident, spreading further in the early 2020s.

Origin

On November 29th, 2018, YouTuber^[1] Punchinilla posted a video of Mario knocking on a door, entering and demanding the viewer's liver The video only gained 1,700 views over three and a half years but is the earliest known example (shown below). The image used in the clip is a stock photo of an opened front door.^[2]

Spread

On September 22nd, 2020, YouTuber^[3] The Sad Cat posted the same scene, tweaking the dialogue to read, "Hey motherfucker, come here and give me your liver," gaining over 361,000 views in one and a half years (shown below, left). On March 4th, 2021, YouTuber^[4] Tylersaurus posted the first video expanding on the premise of the original, showing a short video of a Windows notification reading, "3 days until Mario steals your liver" (shown below, right).

On November 21st, 2021, YouTuber^[5] Hydraulic Beanbag posted a 3D animation of The Sad Cat's video, gaining over 1.9 million views in five months, the first example of the meme to reach over 1 million views (shown below, left). On January 21st, 2022, YouTuber Luke Correia posted a video showing Luigi returning the liver, gaining over 852,000 views in two months and completing the expansion of the meme into a trilogy.

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