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Close to You is an animated video released by Nintendo on October 7th, 2025, that shows a baby who drops her pacifier, which proceeds to move around the room as if being manipulated by an invisible entity. The animation was praised by many for its high quality, drawing comparisons to Pixar animations. However, it also inspired confusion as to what Nintendo franchise or property the animation was advertising, as there is no explicitly recognizable Nintendo character or branding throughout. The animation inspired many theories after it was dropped, with the most prevalent theory claiming it to be a promo for a new Pikmin game due to a song in the animation that seems to be a rendition of the Pikmin theme, as well as lore claiming that humans cannot see Pikmin with the naked eye. Another theory was that the baby in the animation is meant to be Baby Rosalina from the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie. On October 8th, an updated version of the video was released on the Nintendo Today! app that adds Pikmin to the animation, confirming that it is Pikmin-related.

Origin

On October 7th, 2025, the Nintendo of America social media pages, including X^[1] and YouTube,^[2] released a short animated video titled Close to You that garnered over 5.7 million views and 23,000 likes on the former and 177,000 views on the latter in under a day. The animation follows a baby who drops her pacifier, and it proceeds to move about the room by an invisible entity, with other objects also moving. The animation does not appear at first glance to be an advertisement or teaser for a specific game or franchise, confusing some viewers.

Spread

The animation inspired many theories as to what it was teasing, promoting or generally about after it dropped. It also inspired numerous memes.

Pikmin Theory

On October 7th, 2025, the animation was reposted to the /r/Nintendo^[3] subreddit, garnering over 1,000 upvotes and 570 comments in under a day. One of the top comments in the thread reads, "I can hear bits of the Pikmin theme throughout the video, and it’s almost as if it’s invisible Pikmin moving things around."

Shortly after, X^[4] user @godzilla154 quoted the X post sharing the video, writing, "Real Pikmin truthers know the lore" and sharing a screenshot claiming that humans can't see Pikmin with the naked eye, garnering over 21,000 likes in under a day.

Baby Rosalina Theory

Some viewers believed that the animation was a teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and that the baby shown in the video is meant to be baby Rosalina.

On October 7th, 2025, X^[5] user @LiquidHbox made a post sharing the theory, writing, "This looks like the animation style from Illumination, the studio behind the upcoming Mario Galaxy movie. And then I saw the hair. And then the ability to move objects. This is Baby Rosalina, and this is the first teaser clip from the upcoming movie," garnering over 880 likes in under a day.

That day, X^[6] user @DocShoddy quoted the post, writing, "This is indeed a crazy theory because one look at Baby Peach would tell you that this isn’t Rosalina," showing Baby Peach next to the Close to You baby, garnering over 400 likes in under a day.

Memes

On October 7th, 2025, X^[7] user @El_Omar2203 posted a version of the Bart's Dead meme where Bart tricks Homer and Marge into believing that a new Mother game was announced, garnering over 4,200 likes in under a day.

Updated Video

On October 8th, 2025, another version of the animation was uploaded on the Nintendo Today!^[8] app. In this version of the animation, Pikmin can be seen moving the pacifier and interacting with the baby, confirming the Pikmin theory. That day, X^[9] user @Wario64 posted screenshots from the updated animation, garnering over 6,400 likes in under a day.

That day, YouTuber^[10] Nintenderos reuploaded the video, garnering over 5,000 views in a few hours.

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