Peach "Did You Actually Expect X" / Bowser "Kinda"

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Peach "Did You Actually Expect X" / Bowser "Kinda" is an exploitable series of memes using a scene from the 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie where Peach asks Bowser if he expected something and Bowser answers, "Kinda!" The meme first went viral on Twitter in April 2023 and inspired new variants over the following days.

Origin

On April 12th, 2023, Twitter^[1] user @MegumiBandicot posted, "The Mario Movie discourse," along with a meme showing Princess Peach saying to Bowser, "Did you actually expect this movie to be as deep as a Pixar movie," and Bowser answering, "Kinda!" garnering over 35,500 likes and 2,400 retweets in a week (shown below).

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On April 13th, 2023, Twitter^[2] user @Schaffrillas quote-retweeted the post, writing, "I don't like the message of this meme but I think the lesson we should take from it is that Bowser's "Kinda!" line would make for a fun meme format," garnering over 14,000 likes in a week. On the same day, Instagram^[3] user clitalians posted a screenshot of a comment under the post that gained over 1,700 likes in a week (shown below). On April 15th, the Ouch, Right in the Childhood Facebook^[4] page shared the original meme, garnering over 800 reactions in six days.

The meme started to inspire new variants around April 16th. On that day, Instagram^[5] user gang_heterosexual (shown below, left) and Facebook^[6] user The Indian Superhero lovers posted new variations of the meme. On April 18th, Ranker^[7] included the original meme in a list article titled "22 Of The Boldest Tweets We Found This Week That Got Hilariously Real." On April 20th, Tumblr^[8] user freckleocalypse posted a new version of the meme referencing the Bowuigi ship that gained over 300 notes in a day (shown below, right). The meme was originally posted on the 13th by Twitter^[9] user @Funy0nion, garnering over 9,400 likes.

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