This Guy Sucks At Mario

About

This Guy Sucks At Mario refers to a viral video and copypasta in which a text-to-speech voice criticizes a gamer playing Super Mario 3, saying they jump too often and make unsafe, precarious jumps. However, the clip shows a Tool Assisted Speedrun (TAS) of Super Mario 3, meaning each input has been manually input beforehand to be theoretically perfect. The video has been widely reposted and quoted on social media, leading to parodies in which social media users utilized the same text-to-speech voice to make similar videos over high-quality Mario gameplay.

Origin

It is unclear where the video was first posted. The earliest known post of the video was on April 26th, 2024, on TikTok by user @gear3bruhman,^[1] but the video appears to be a repost.

The video shows TAS gameplay of Super Mario 3, but a text-to-speech voiceover criticizes the gameplay for being too risky and inefficient.

Full Copypasta Text

This guy fucking sucks at Mario. In this video, we can see a player so atrociously bad at Mario, that he almost gets himself killed multiple times a second. Despite the obviously precarious platforms, he sucks so fucking bad at the game that he just can't stop jumping around like a moron. It's only by sheer luck that he just barely avoids sending our mustachioed friend plummeting towards his doom. Subscribe if you think this total embarrassment of a gamer should never be allowed to touch a controller again.

Spread

The video was widely reposted over the following several days. On April 28th, 2024, it was reposted to the subreddit /r/lies,^[2] gaining over 1,200 points in six months. The same day, it was reposted to YouTube Shorts^[3] by user SuperBlueNova, gaining over 3,500 views in the same timeframe.

On May 26th, 2024, Twitter / X user @DepthsOfWikirby^[5] posted an edit of the video that presented its text as an entry on a wiki page, gaining over 860 retweets and 4,400 likes in five months.

On August 13th, 2024, Twitter user @Scarlet_Rose025^[4] reposted it saying every time they play the game, they remember the video, gaining over 1,300 retweets and 12,000 likes in two months.

In October 2024, other users began utilizing the same TTS voice to comment on the gameplay of other Mario games. For example, on October 5th, Twitter user @MarioRPGCentral^[6] posted a parody of Mario and Luigi, gaining over 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes in three days.

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