The Goomba Fallacy

The Goomba Fallacyrefers to anexploitablememe created by X /Twitterusers @supersylvie_ and @NopeSignal in January 2024. The meme describes the phenomenon in which a person outside a community gets contradictingopinionsfunneled 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 asGoombasfrom theSuper Mariovideo game series, and depicts variations of the creatures known as Galoombas and Goombrats. The GoombaFallacycame to be referenced repeatedly in 2024 and 2025, especially in the context of video game andSwitch 2discourse, with the Goombas sometimes being replaced by other characters or X being swapped for another platform.