About

The Goomba Fallacy refers to an exploitable meme created by X / Twitter users @supersylvie_ and @NopeSignal in January 2024. The meme describes the phenomenon in which a person outside a community gets contradicting opinions funneled to them through Twitter, causing them to imagine a sort of hivemind that holds conflicting opinions, instead of recognizing that two people within a community can have opposing opinions. The meme typically features creatures known as Goombas from the Super Mario video game series, and depicts variations of the creatures known as Galoombas and Goombrats. The Goomba Fallacy came to be referenced repeatedly in 2024 and 2025, especially in the context of video game and Switch 2 discourse, with the Goombas sometimes being replaced by other characters or X being swapped for another platform.

Origin

On January 25th, 2024, X^[1] user @infrarogue89 posted a tweet about how video game journalists criticize Palworld, calling it plagiarism and a soulless cash grab, but defend The Last of Us: Remastered, even though it is the same game with slightly different graphics. The account has since been deleted.

On January 26th, X^[2] user @NopeSignal posted a Wojak meme depicting two contradicting opinions getting funneled into a third person's Twitter feed, who then imagines a single person to hold both conflicting opinions. This leads him to believe that everyone on Twitter is stupid except for himself. The post gathered over 1,400 likes in a year.

On January 29th, X^[3] user @supersylvie_ quoted the post with an edited version of the meme that replaced the Wojaks with Goombas from the video game Super Mario. The caption on the image read, "what if instead of wojaks they were something cool like goombajaks and looked like this."

Spread

On April 18th, 2024, Redditor u/daaaanker posted a version of the Goomba Fallacy meme to the subreddit /r/197^[7] that showed two Goombas holding contradicting opinions on the death penalty, and a third Goomba imagining them to be the same person. The post gathered over 2,000 upvotes in a year.

On May 20th, 2024, X^[8] user @SuperSquidoodle reposted the Goomba Fallacy graphic on in May 2024, writing, "I'm dead fucking serious when I say this image has irreversibly changed how I view opinions on the internet," and gathering over 30,000 likes in a year.

On July 1st, 2024, Tumblr^[9] user @thejonymyster posted an image of the Goomba Fallacy to help illustrate Tumblr user @jasper-rolls's point about how hypocrisy on the internet can also be explained away by recognizing that it's often "two different people with opposing opinions." The post gathered over 13,000 notes in 11 months.

On October 20th, 2024, Tumblr^[5] user @catboypalug reposted the "I'm a Stupid Walking Contradiction" Goomba graphic with the caption, "I fucking love the fact that this one specific image has single-handedly codified the term 'Goomba Fallacy' into the internet's vocabulary," gathering 39 notes in eight months.

On October 20th, the image was reposted to the subreddit /r/CuratedTumblr^[6] by u/NeonNKnightrider, where it gathered over 6,900 likes in eight months.

On April 25th, 2025, X^[4] user @CaptainClaood posted a video explaining the Goomba Fallacy graphic after another user expressed confusion over what it means, gathering over 99,000 views and 3,000 likes in two months.

https://t.co/y8pHIn5TuI pic.twitter.com/3W8JUL5p00

— Claood (@CaptainClaood) April 25, 2025

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