Luigi Super Nut

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About

Luigi Super Nut is a reaction image macro featuring a screenshot from the video game Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. In the game, "nuts" are consumables that give the characters power. However, the memes imply that Luigi is receiving sexual pleasure and has been used to sincere or ironic arousal (similar to Nut Button).

Origin

Nintendo released the video game Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga on November 17th, 2003 in the United States for the Game Boy Advance video game console. There are a variety of "nuts" in the game, including Nut, Super Nut, Ultra Nut and Max Nut, which increase hit points (HP).^[1]

Twitter ^[2] user @_GitaBite posted earliest known usage of the image as a reaction on October 26th, 2018 (shown below).

Spread

On October 31st, an anonymous 4chan ^[3] user posted the image on the /vp/ board (shown below).

Days later, Facebook ^[4] user ThyAnon shared the image with the caption ">'21% of the people who like your page are women.'" The post received more than 285 reactions in a little over three years (shown below, left).

On February 22nd, 2017, Redditor ^[5] Arman_Karamanokian shared a variation of the meme that features other nuts from the game. the post received more than 2,000 points (99% upvoted) and 35 comments in less than three years (shown below, center).

The following year, on June 12th, 2018, Memedroid^[6] user Tonchi_sad posted a variation that is similar to the Vince McMahon Reaction in response to Nintendo's 2018 E3 announcements. The post received more than 1,100 points (88% upvoted) as of November 2019.