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Look Upon The Hairy-Legged Toad, Ye Unfortunate Souls

July 14th, 2017 - 9:56 AM EDT by Adam

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(Source: BGR)

In March of this year, the internet was horrified when it saw Kirby remove his shoes and reveal grotesquely human feet.


The piece by @MarieBlue05 was arguably the most disturbing piece of SFW Nintendo fan art to exist.

Until now.

In April, Patrick Gill of Polygon tweeted at Nintendo of America with an image of Toad--sweet, innocent Toad, helper of Mario and maker of goofy noises--with hairy human legs. He did this with one request: Please Retweet.


Now, if Nintendo had simply honored Gill's request, it would have been a funny, silly moment that we could all chuckle at. Instead, Nintendo ignored the tweet, and a full fledged campaign began.

On the day of Gill's tweet, he launched a YouTube series on Polygon's channel called "Please Retweet," which updates weekly on his efforts to get Nintendo to retweet the hairy-legged Toad. At the time of writing, there are currently 12 episodes in Gill's series, each filled with him trying new ways to get Nintendo to retweet the Toad.

The movement has attracted followers. Gill's videos receive hundreds of thousands of views and his repeated efforts to get the coveted RT have gained thousands of retweets themselves. Inspired followers have even created variations on Gill's Toad to show their support.




For their part, Nintendo (or at least whoever runs Nintendo's Twitter) seems aware of Gill's efforts and are cheekily denying him the satisfaction of the retweet. In May, they trolled Gill by copying the wording from one of his pleas but retweeted an unedited Toad.



At this point, so long as Gill keeps up his quest, his journey will likely only gain more supporters, and timelines everywhere will continue to be cursed with blasphemous, hairy-legged, diaper-wearing Toads. That is, until Nintendo just hits RT. According to a poll from podcasting app, Anchor, 100% of people want them to do so.


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noot4

Jul 18, 2017 at 02:58PM EDT

Isn't this a forced meme perpetrated by a journalist using his private army?

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Avoid Thispage Please

Jul 17, 2017 at 11:06PM EDT

It's the uncanny valley. Like one of those muscular Madoka fan arts that I would prefer to leave in the black depths of my subconscious mind.

Some are just hilarious-badass, but others… brrr…
Have a taste:



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Fred Flintstone

Jul 17, 2017 at 06:14PM EDT

The year is 2039. All hope seems lost and long gone, but one day, completely out of the blue, Nintendo retweets. The internet rejoices and weeps tears of pure, unfiltered joy… and Nintendo deletes the retweet an hour later.

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Pun

Jul 17, 2017 at 02:16PM EDT

Me upon seeing this

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Walrus the Tree

Jul 14, 2017 at 10:42PM EDT

Been following Pat's journey into madness for a while now. The latest episode focused on his coworkers telling him to take time off for his own health and to please not tweet at Nintendo. Gripping stuff. Please Retweet.

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