Wario Is Dying

About

Wario Is Dying refers to a fictional video game which was described by a Tumblr user as having come to them in a dream. This led to parodies and artistic creations made for the game, including cover artwork and theme music.

Origin

On August 13th, 2015, Tumblr user crustyclarinet^[1] made a post that read:

i had a dream last night where i went to buy video games and there was a game called “wario is dying” on the shelves and the box art of the game was just a really small wario standing in front of a nice ocean background.

Shortly after the post, since-deleted account pjberri reblogged the post with cover art for the game (shown below). The post gained over 70,000 notes

Spread

The post was reblogged by the Tumblr staff on August 15th, 2015.^[2] The same day, a thread asking "would you play this game?" appeared on the gamefaqs forums.^[3] On August 16th, 2015, YouTuber ExplodingDuckBrigade posted a video inspired by the post (shown below, left). On August 20th, 2015, YouTuber CyberChick posted a fake trailer for the game (shown below, left).

The post continued to inspire Soundclown edits over the following years. Other parodies include an April 1st, 2017 video by TimmyTurnersGranddad that was the "Main theme" from the game (shown below, left). Another mixed posted by user VvvvvaVvvvvvr on April 19th, 2017 claimed to be the "Wario is Living" mix (shown below, right).

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