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ZackScott Elephant Daisy Art Commissions refers to a series of fan art commissions by YouTuber Zack Scott in which he hired artists to draw anthropomorphic elephant versions of their Princess Daisy artwork, meant to resemble the character after eating an elephant fruit in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. ZackScott began posting the commissions on Twitter / X as early as October 2023, often alongside the caption, "I loved the original, but she wasn't an elephant, so I commissioned the same artist to turn her into an elephant!" ZackScott began posting new Elephant Daisy commissions in April 2025, inspiring reactions and memes online, with some celebrating ZackScott for commissioning the artists to create the art he wanted rather than using artificial intelligence to generate them.

Origin

YouTuber^[1] ZackScott, Zack Scott of ZackScottGames, is known to be a fan of the elephant Daisy design that was introduced in the video game Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Throughout mid-to-late 2023, he had several pieces of art depicting the character commissioned.

For example, on October 6th, 2023, ZackScott posted a piece of art to X^[2] that he commissioned of Elephant Daisy sitting on a stool, writing, "I loved the original, but she wasn't an elephant, so I commissioned the same artist to turn her into an elephant!" garnering over 14,000 likes in just over a year. This is one of the earliest known Elephant Daisy commissions by Scott.

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In April 2025, ZackScott began mass-commissioning and posting Elephant Daisy art to X. The commissions are largely based on pre-existing Daisy art that he had the artists alter to feature Elephant Daisy.

For example, on April 3rd, 2025, @ZackScott quote-reposted an artist's Daisy art on X^[3] with the question, "Is there an Elephant Daisy version of this?" garnering over 10,000 likes in six days. Later that day, X^[4] user @Ishigami_art posted an elephant version of the art, which ZackScott reposted on April 5th, garnering over 4,900 likes in four days.

Between April 5th and 9th, ZackScott shared 10 more Elephant Daisy art commissions, each based on a preexisting piece of Daisy fan art. He also posted some memes referencing the art.

On April 5th, X^[5] user @ZackScott posted a piece of art he commissioned from MoxyDraws that shows Daisy on a jet ski, writing, "I loved the original, but she wasn't an elephant, so I commissioned the same artist to turn her into an elephant," garnering over 104,000 likes in four days.

The post was screenshotted and posted to the /r/LoserCity^[6] subreddit that day, garnering over 7,000 upvotes in four days. On April 6th, X^[7] user @____VeL____ quoted the post with an image of Superman, meant to celebrate ZackScott for commissioning the artist rather than using AI, garnering over 137,000 likes in three days.

On April 7th, 2025, ZackScott posted a piece of art to X^[8] commissioned from RandomRiot showing Elephant Daisy in the water, garnering over 95,000 likes in two days. Again, he captioned the post, "I loved the original, but she wasn't an elephant, so I commissioned the same artist to turn her into an elephant!"

That day, X^[9] user @ZackScott posted a meme sharing a reaction image of Dumbo crying, writing, "Me when I find an amazing Daisy artist and their commissions are closed," garnering over 93,000 likes in two days.

On April 8th, 2025, X^[10] user @ZackScott posted a piece of Elephant Daisy art commissioned from @ManysArt1 depicting Daisy and Luigi in the desert, garnering over 75,000 likes in a day. That same day, Redditor u/uucgjb posted a collection of ZackScott Elephant Daisy artworks to the /r/Losercity^[11] subreddit, garnering over 1,200 upvotes in a day.

That same day, X^[12] user @RupanSansei67 posted a meme using an image of the Joker to represent ZackScott calling up artists to commission Elephant Daisy artwork, joking that he's a villain, garnering over 13,000 likes in a day.

On April 9th, X^[13] user @bongftah posted a piece of art showing Luigi servicing a nervous Princess Daisy an Elephant Fruit as ZackScott watches from a table in the background, the post caption reading, "This is from the gentleman over there," garnering over 160,000 likes in a day.

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