Nintendo's weird "This is Miyamoto" tweet is already a meme

gamesradar.com:

Nintendo icon and In-N-Out burger enthusiast Shigeru Miyamoto recently got hold of the Nintendo's Twitter password and made himself into a meme.

Miyamoto's intent was simply to announce the delay of Chris Pratt's Mario movie to April 2023, but the weird and mildly foreboding way he phrased the announcement is what got online people talking. And when we say "online people talking" in 2022, we of course mean they're making memes.

Nintendo's tweet is fairly typical for the brand but for the opening line, which reads: "This is Miyamoto" - as if we wouldn't trust an announcement from Nintendo without knowing the legendary Mario maker himself wrote it.

This is Miyamoto. After consulting with Chris-san, my partner at Illumination on the Super Mario Bros. film, we decided to move the global release to Spring 2023–April 28 in Japan and April 7 in North America. My deepest apologies but I promise it will be well worth the wait.April 26, 2022

I think part of what makes the tweet so funny is that the opening line seems like it should portend a much more serious situation than the silly Mario movie being delayed. Not to make light of the delay, but Miyamoto announcing himself so dryly almost gave me a heart attack as a million possibilities swirled through my head before I read the rest of the tweet. Is he retiring? Is Elon Musk buying Nintendo? etc. etc.

Regardless, the tweet is perfect meme material. It's quirky, doesn't need any context, and it's easily modifiable. Here are some of our favorites here at GR:

This is Miyamoto. Donkey Kong is dead. pic.twitter.com/9fyigGbU1EApril 26, 2022

This is Miyamoto. I was not lying when I said I wanted In-N-Out. My deepest apologies but I promise it will be well worth the wait.