Supper Mario Broth

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Supper Mario Broth
Supper Mario Broth logo.jpeg
Logo for Supper Mario Broth, featuring the carrot power-up from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Type of site
 Blog, social media accounts
OwnerBroth
Created byBroth
URL www.suppermariobroth.com
LaunchedBlog: 2012;12 years ago (2012)
Twitter: April 2016;8 years ago (2016-04)

Supper Mario Broth is a blog and series of social media accounts known for posting obscure and humorous content related to the Mario franchise. Since the blog's creation in 2012, it has shared thousands of facts and pieces of media from the series, often in the form of educational entertainment.

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Creation

The Supper Mario Broth blog, described as a "Super Mario variety blog", was launched in 2012 by two authors, both of whom have maintained anonymity. The name of the blog came from a brainstorming session in which the authors agreed to choose a food-related name due to this being a regular theme of the Mario series. One of the authors focused on posting entertainment content, while the other focused on posting factual material. Following a hiatus, the former author left the blog in 2016, after which many of the humor-related posts were removed from the site, though some of them were subsequently reinstated with disclaimers following backlash from fans. [1]

Activity

The Supper Mario Broth blog and social media accounts have been owned and run by one individual, a German man in his 30s [2] who prefers to be known as simply "Broth". [1] [3] Content regularly shared on the sites includes sprites, [1] models, [3] glitches, advertisements, merchandise, screenshots, GIFs, and artwork. [4] The most popular post on the Supper Mario Broth blog is a GIF from Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour . Supper Mario Broth has also amassed large followings on Tumblr and Twitter. [1]

The sites have followed a strict "veracity policy" since 2017, and posts deemed to be in violation of said policy have been removed. Despite some of Supper Mario Broth's content being perceived as ironic humor, the sites' author has stated: "I'm not a humorous person. I'm the sort of person who likes facts. If you have looked at my blog for even a second, you might have noticed that the content post is very outlandish, but it is all factual. And I realized that outlandish factual content looks a lot like joke content." [1]

The author of the Supper Mario Broth sites has experienced financial difficulties, despite having a job working with elderly individuals with mental illnesses such as Alzheimer's. An interview with Vice revealed that the author had sold all of his video games as well as their corresponding consoles. The author has relied on a Patreon to continue running the accounts, as well as work on a comic inspired by Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door . As of September 2018, the Patreon was being backed by 222 people. [1]

In October 2024, the author of Supper Mario Broth sites revealed that following the recent death of his mother, whom he had been the primary caretaker of for the past six years, he would have to discontinue the accounts. After the owner posted a now-unlisted YouTube video in which he asked for help, the number of Patreon supporters for the blog increased from a few hundred to more than 4,000. In a subsequent Twitter post, the owner announced that he would be able to continue running the sites full time, as well as "invest into material and equipment for more and better Mario content". [3] [4]

Reception

Reception toward both the Supper Mario Broth blog and social media accounts has been overwhelmingly positive. Writing for Vice, Patrick Klepek described the tone of the blog as "equal parts fascinating and bewildering". Frank Cifaldi, a video game historian and founder of the nonprofit archival-focused Video Game History Foundation, stated: "You'd think everyone has said all there is to say about Super Mario Bros. by now. Broth proves that if you dig deep into ephemera and data-mine the games themselves, you can find all kinds of new and interesting talking points." [1]

Writing for The Verge , Ash Parrish lauded the Supper Mario Broth blog as "one of the most wholesome Mario blogs on the internet" and "a celebrated institution in the broader Nintendo community". [4] In his own blog on the video game website Aftermath , Luke Plunkett referred to the Supper Mario Broth Twitter account as "quite frankly exceptional" and praised its official response to negative feedback. [5] Writing for TheGamer, Mike Drucker referred to Supper Mario Broth as "the best Super Mario archivist on planet Earth". [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Klepek, Patrick (September 17, 2018). "Meet the Meticulous Fan Behind the Internet's Most Meticulous Mario Blog". Vice . Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  2. ↑ @MarioBrothBlog (March 3, 2024). "This month's experimental post: I frequently receive questions about certain aspects of my personal life, my Mario game preferences, and my history with Mario and the blog. The document below compiles my answers to some of your most common inquiries!" (Tweet). Retrieved October 21, 2024– via Twitter.
  3. 1 2 3 Serin, Kaan (October 18, 2024). "After running a Super Mario Bros archive for 12 years, one dedicated historian was about to quit forever if it wasn't for the help of 4,000 fans: "You have saved my life"". GamesRadar+ . Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 Parrish, Ash (October 18, 2024). "Fans come to the rescue of popular Mario content creator". The Verge . Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  5. ↑ Plunkett, Luke (August 29, 2024). "Every Website Needs Just Three Rules". Aftermath . Retrieved October 18, 2024.
  6. ↑ Drucker, Mike (October 20, 2024). "Supper Mario Broth Is A Reminder Of The Good In Us". TheGamer. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
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