9M Watched Pirated “Super Mario” Movie On Twitter

May 2, 2023 Business, Social Media

If you were wondering what getting rid of the vast majority of Twitter staff, including moderators, might do to the site, here’s one bit of anarchy for you.

After attempting something similar a few days ago, the account “vids that go hard” with 1.1 million followers has posted the entirety of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, yes the one that’s still in theaters and just crossed $1 billion at the box office, illegally to Twitter.

It appears Twitter finally woke up and deleted the video. But the account does not seem to have been punished in any capacity. The movie is indeed the full length, uploaded in two parts. A Twitter Blue subscription now allows you to upload hour-long videos in high quality, which makes the piracy shown here much, much easier.

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A Twitter user posted the entire “Super Mario Bros.” movie and got 9 million views before Twitter’s understaffed content moderators finally realized what was going on and took it down more than seven hours later. https://t.co/dyYas70B3I

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 1, 2023