The Shigeru Miyamoto Instagram scam

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[@Squirt4757]

I love how even on a scam, Miyamoto gets called out for ruining paper mario

[@georgewilson7432]

Some guys are really dense.

[@TiStardust]

Tanabe is to blame, along with Intelligent Systems. Isn’t Miyamoto’s fault they can’t effectively take advice and be creative with the hundreds of preexisting Mario characters...

[@vr8652]

Just to be clear, it was reinvented at Super Paper Mario, and then somehow ruined in Sticker Star and afterwards.

[@mangcrow5738]

@@ycleptprof.5249 You don't understand. It was such a unique game. The badge system was just so fun. Badges could give you anything from different battle sounds to different attacks to use in battle. Badges required badge points to use, and you could level up how many badge points you have when every you leveled up. The level up system was pretty cool as you got to choose what you wanted to upgrade, and you leveled up by fighting like a normal rpg, but you collected star points instead of exp. Whenever you reached 100 star points you would level up, it was very rewarding although sometimes it could feel grindy, but that's every rpg. You just ran across everywhere and used pipes in a few places, and It just felt so connected. there was also a super cool system where you could have partners with unique attacks and things they could do in the overworld, like fly mario a short distance. make mario move faster while hovering him over both the normal ground and obstacles. explode cracked walls to open new areas and continue in a dungeon. Best of all was the combat system. when you attacked, you had an Action Command based on which attack you used. things like pressing the A button at the right time, or pulling left and letting go at the right time. They kept you more engaged in a fight what you do actually matters other than selecting the most optimal attack which is super easy in most rpgs. it was way more fun then the normal select an attack and then your character just does it. Missing an Action Command didn't mean that your attack didn't work it just meant that it would do less damage, and it didn't use big numbers like most rpgs. It used the first 10 numbers for the beginning of the game and then only really went above that with super powerful attacks and boss health. A part of the reason why the world was so great is because of the people you got to talk to and all of the stories, personalities, and side quests. After the first game they came back and literally made the game better in pretty much every way imaginable. They added more things to do in the overworld other than just talk to people and find badges like turn into a paper airplane and go sideways to fit through things. They added more Action Commands, more badges, and more unique partners.Then they came out with Super Paper Mario. It added a really cool system where you could go 3d to solve puzzles, and the story was pretty unique with super odd things happening like a chameleon who is obsessed with videogames freak out when he sees a real girl. it was more funny then a normal paper mario game, but it completely ruined everything that made paper mario paper mario. there was no more chosing how you level up, and they even got rid of star points, and just leveled you up based on your total score where you got 100 points for jumping on an enemy. Super Paper Mario was pretty disappointing, but then they decided that you shouldn't even be able to attack normally and instead it should require you to use a sticker to attack. and the overworld was like super mario world. it was literally a different game, except mario was made out of paper. there was no more unique characters it was just toads. in the original there were enemies that had characters. but nope just toads. at least super paper mario was fun as a game sticker star is just bad. i think that Paper Mario the original and Paper Mario the sequel Thousand Year Door are super great games on pretty much every level except for a few things that would just be nitpicking, like checking items into the store one at a time and collecting items from the store one at a time. i think that they're great not from nostalgia, i literally beat Paper Mario for the first time yesterday. i think that they're great because on a gameplay level and on a personal level they are.

[@PostModernToast]

By itself, Super Paper Mario is an amazing game. The only problem people have with it is that it's different from its predecessors, which is understandable but completely unfair. Paper Mario Sticker Star was a trashy game but I personally still enjoyed it

[@awrsish]

To personally ask miyomoto if he was teaching a class, I flew to Japan.

[@emperorza5777]

Fr?

[@awrsish]

@@emperorza5777 n- no??

[@emperorza5777]

@@awrsish Honestly I didn’t watch the video yet and was curious 😂😂

[@theechickengamerz]

Did he say no?

[@guy136]

Take me along

[@KelsomaticPDX]

"Shigeru's World" is a phrase I just need more of.

[@IsaacClodfelter]

I bet it would make a good game

[@happiny4847]

He has the power of The World.

[@babylonian]

which do you like more: Super Shigeru 3D World? or New Super Shigeru Bros U Deluxe?

[@IsaacClodfelter]

@@babylonian I am more of a Super Shigeru 64 man myself.

[@KelsomaticPDX]

@@babylonian In one of these titles you can play as Shigeru in a cat suit. Take a guess.

[@moritz4206]

That atom means that it was built using react, he built one mobile page out for that ad, and didn’t build the rest out of the app lmao

[@babylonian]

LOL

[@maksymillian]

Wow

[@Bowling4986]

LOL

[@TJHorner]

You can also see that when the pages were taken down, he left the default Rails 404 page. Why use Rails for literally just a couple static pages? Same reason you use React for them, I suppose...

[@evertonc1448]

@@TJHorner he probably had bigger plans but he saw he could fool enough people with the static pages he already had and just didn't code the rest, that's the explanation I can think of tbh.

[@elijahpepe]

First it was Domino’s Pizza Miku. Then it was Reggie’s chair. Now it’s Miyamoto’s decency as a person!

[@Mick_92]

Detective Pikachu? I say we should be getting Detective Nick instead!

[@pikminfan1286]

And the problem with Mario's hair.

[@lebro4401]

Domino's pizza miku is actually good

[@heterodoxagnostic8070]

i only saw those videos.

[@canamemiku]

Oh yeah i just realized he's the same person as the one who made that domino's pizza miku video

[@wienerschnitzel1739]

Ah, the classic line of thought Shigeru Miyamoto Scam->Shigeru Miyamoto->Shigeru Miyamoto ruined Paper Mario

[@snivyboy168]

I bet someone said "Shigeruined Paper Mario"

[@JD-wv1yi]

He did tho, he likes stickers instead of gameplay

[@xexpaguette]

Shigeru Miyamoto Scam -> Shigeru Miyamoto -> Nintendo -> Mario/Smash Bros -> Super Mario Odyssey -> Cascade Kingdom -> Grass -> Plains Biome In Minecraft -> Minecraft Steve *steve confirmed for smash*

[@morshulinton4112]

@@naturalnova69 TANABE DOES WHAT MIYAMODON'T

[@louloum3744]

"oops! I dropped a CD loaded with 5000 email addresses." "Whoops! I dropped a quarter for each one!"

[@TheFantasticJoe]

It always makes my day to see Homestar Runner references.

[@dvdcopyofsharktaleVEVO]

This is exactly what i was thinking of when i heard they were selling email adresses to spammers, epic homestar reference is inbound

[@GSPACEUnit]

@@TheFantasticJoe which episode is it from?

[@TheFantasticJoe]

@@GSPACEUnit Strong Bad email 65: "unused emails"

[@PLASBEZ]

Whoops! You have to put this CD in your computer.

[@rangaemani]

I saw this same ad last night and consequently lost my shit, thank you Nick, for addressing this and making me feel like im not insane

[@CricetoFunni]

haha first reply what do i win???????

[@igodgaming1705]

But how can you be certain unless you book a trip to Japan, infiltrate Nintendo HQ and ask Shigeru Miyamoto personally?

[@Clover011808]

You know the next step is to try to make the most ridiculous Instagram ad you can, right?

[@LimeyLassen]

I'd love to see memes as ads for pure culture jamming reasons, that sounds dope

[@x123Juancho123x]

I've seen an ad that's literally just a banana on the floor. Some people just buy them for shit and giggles.

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

It would certainly be more welcomed than those awful mobile games that all look the same and have terrible graphics.

[@deepspacenibby]

Danny Gonzalez did this hahaha

[@frootloopssz]

no, the next step is booking a flight to Tokyo 👹

[@falishalea2300]

You should try and make a CLEARLY fake ad and see if it works/ see if Instagram notices.

[@Thawah]

Reminds me of what Danny Gonzales did with his ridiculous ads

[@underscore2736]

@@Thawah I am entranced watching him spank himself, HELP.

[@dimitriydzyuba218]

So i booked a ticket....

[@TastySnackies]

This is a pretty elaborate ad for your Instagram, but alright. You've earned my follow.

[@FinalLuigi]

As Donald Trump once tweeted, "Weird flex, but ok".

[@Yannick9797]

This proves how broken Instagram's ad system is.

[@Trimint123]

Don't get me started with Facebook.

[@Yannick9797]

@@Trimint123 I barely use Facebook because of the ads and there infamous reputation on privacy. Facebook also owns Instagram. But yeah. You're right.

[@Serliu]

To the point where it's actually scary...

[@basementbats]

Well now you have to test the limits of what kind of ads you can get through Instagram to actually run by making them yourself

[@thewinter_]

And somehow work in traveling to Japan

[@s_stuff]

2:30 did you really just get a triple splat with a curling bomb...

[@babylonian]

😌

[@jacksonlovesnintendo]

Triple Splatdown is so broken in Splatoon 3

[@napalmdreams9654]

Why does he find it increasingly funny that there’s a hyphen in the name

[@babylonian]

fair question. i think i was tired

[@antimatterg]

@@babylonian im surprised you didn't fly to Japan for answers....

[@JoelGibsonBagelator]

I thought this video was going to end: "So I created a fake scam to see if I could post it on Instagram!" Please do that.

[@geschnitztekiste4111]

"Would you like to learn from Movie Sonic?"

[@24Nyome]

"Out of options and desperate for some sort of resolution, I booked a flight to Instagram headquarters to see what I could find."

[@Michaelwave64]

Word of the day: hyphen

[@GlowZoe]

Michael ?

[@chillshobe8147]

what

[@Michaelwave64]

Dark Empress Aly you get it

[@gameandstuff]

-

[@deltaphant_]

The best part is "Why?"

[@marisaare5134]

its good to see a fellow homestuck here

[@anthonytrevino9520]

I really like this story/PSA style video. More of this please. :D

[@Oberon123]

For miyamoto, scamming does what nintendont

[@supakusuta]

Lol, I like that “Nintendon’t” reference

[@SquidSystem]

Nick, I say it all the time, there is no one with as much content variance and consistent quality as you do. Keep up your amazing work

[@babylonian]

:') thanks homie

[@Hannahruda]

Instagram still hasn’t improved their advertiser check, just the other day I got 13 (THIRTEEN!!!) ads for actual magic mushrooms not grocery ads or hipster coffee ads but actual drug containing magic mushrooms it was run by accounts meant to look like real accounts with fake names and usernames but they were all essentially the same ad saying things like “these make me feel happy” or “my grandma showed these to her friends!”

[@mk1k]

I half expected you to say “so I booked a flight to japan” in this video.

[@jard5918]

2:38 " The whole thing felt INKredibly dishonest. " hmmmmmMmmMMM

[@hackerling]

i legit thought that you were going to end this video by creating your own fake scam and selling advertisements as an experiment but nice SPLATOON GAMEPLAY

[@ElwindMage]

So you didn't go to Japan in this video? Hard to believe it, you must've snatched a plane ride to personally ask Miyamoto himself...

[@LiamLLP]

I just got an ad about Facebook ad training. MY GOD THEY’RE ON TO US.

[@dirr8420]

Omg same.

[@dirr8420]

It had a black and white dude.

[@Ultran122]

You should try to get Instagram to approve a fake ad as a part 2 to this.

[@TayoEXE]

Shouldn't it be obvious that he speaks JAPANESE? Besides the fact that he has always had an interpreter when speaking to English audiences.

[@joshualuigi220]

Actually, it's a misconception that Mr. Miyamoto doesn't understand English. He has stated in interviews that he understands English, but does not believe that he speaks it well enough. You can see this if you have ever watched a live interview with him, as sometimes he will react to what the English interviewer is saying before his translator can even translate it. He's just shy when it comes to speaking English.

[@hannahc3317]

@@joshualuigi220 considering how big of a deal a small translation error can be, I don't blame him for using one.

[@carwyn3691]

To be fair I don't think it's impossible that a legit company like MasterClass could get hold of him and have a course with a translator or subtitles

[@CaptainBalcon]

I can't believe that of all the famous people portrayed in the ads, you decided to mention Wolfgang Puck and Rupaul but not LEWIS HAMILTON

[@ElectroBlastLuigi]

And I thought that Super Mario Maker 2 mobile advertisement that was circling around KZbin two months ago was bad enough...

[@CringePotato]

Instagram really should let you report ads on the platform. I’ve come across many scams like this in the past.

[@ecrivonlunyx]

They do! just Click the 3 dots icon on top of the post and it will bring up a menu that allows you to report :) They just shouldn't allow scams like this to show up in the 1st place

[@Pimpeaux]

Tune in next week for "Satoru Iwata's Grocery Store Woes".

[@dayalasingh5853]

I have no intention of bowing to your will

[@IEatDogShit]

More like Satoru Iwata's bile duct woes

[@argonauts56au1kera6]

@Death in June Fans Croatia Too soon.

[@Deltarii]

Don’t forget the spin off Masahiro Sakuari’s Kung Fu Feels

[@lambdillion4610]

It's a good day when nick uploads

[@eftle2829]

3:40 wow never thought I'd see Etika there. See you in paradise brother, may you Rest in Power...

[@PeacefulPagoda]

Your content seems to range widely, and I could not be happier about it! From internet culture, to obscure video game characters, to Japan-centric videos, you’ve like hit the perfect Venn diagram of my interests. Glad to subscribe 👍🏼

[@CasualGraph]

I love that this has nothing to do with Miyamoto and that's the point.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*_And people thought that Yoshi being a tax fraud is way worst than the Miyomoto scam._*

[@MynameisHii]

Nick: "Asking Shigeru Miyamoto to teach an online class for you cause you got a bunch of votes on a petition is a pretty hilarious idea, good luck guys" Also Nick: "Sign this change.org so nintendo will retire Reggie with a $1600 ergonomic chair"

[@risingblur770]

It's just like with youtube just saw a pokemon let's go trailer that was cut down to 10 seconds that linked to a completely different game They don't care that it's illegal they get money from them

[@SagBobet]

Internet ads are just the worst. Not only do they ruin the user experience but they almost always end up being malicious in one form or another.

[@placeholder8392]

I've been getting ridiculous spammy ads from Instagram for what seems like years now. I honestly had no idea there was a claim of any oversight being made by the company.

[@twomanguy]

A lot of the time it spelt Miyamoto as Mlyamoto with a L as the i

[@deerengineer]

got an ad about cyber security after this mentioned phishing relevant but i certainly didn't expect it

[@funniestpigeon6214]

“Learn from Lewis Hamilton”😂😂😂

[@Fake-rt9uk]

lol I got that ad too a day before you posted this video how small of a world do we live in lmao

[@benjimac8741]

Whoa I swear this same exact ad popped up in my feed at that time too. I didn’t think anything of it at the time tho 😂 This clears everything up

[@therealpiranhaplant7415]

I saw this when it came out but I got it back in my recommended because of the Super Mario Maker 2 for mobile scam.

[@WilliamMurphy-wp79]

Should have sent it to a programmer that could write a script to just flood their servers with procedurally generated emails and ruin the integrity of their list

[@antediluvianspy1708]

Yeah unfortunately Instagram is trying so hard to keep up with KZbin that they appear to have little to no process for validating any offers their ads are making.

[@DamianQualshy]

That's the issue with online ads. No one cares what ads they have on their apps, even Instagram/Facebook. And especially no one gives a damn about the law issues behind all that.

[@Kapnap]

I laughed too hard at the “Why?”

[@deadeyes2803]

guy mad at paper mario was pretty cute i laughed

[@alexosow]

If you ever tried to buy a new iPhone, it's just like this but 1000x worse because they're almost all scams

[@pablojams5152]

What I love is that “Shigeru’s world” doesn’t even mean anything because of Japanese naming conventions... that’s his family name, not his “first” name as we like to call them in the west.

[@karakay7536]

You're under a mistaken assumption that "Shigeru Miyamoto" is written in the usual Japanese order. It actually is written in the Western way, meaning given name + surname. He would be referred to as "Miyamoto Shigeru" in Japan. It's pretty obvious since Shigeru is a fairly common Japanese male name and Miyamoto is an equally common surname. It's been two years so you probably already knew this but meh. Just in case.

[@christianlewis9628]

Very likely could be an email mining scam. But, could be a real company/startup trying to validate an idea. Lots of times entrepreneurs will run ads even though there's no product yet, just to see if people will click the ad (thus showing that there's real interest)

[@Dr.Alligator]

I can’t wait to learn amazing story telling from Miyamoto

[@Hexcede]

The logo you saw on the home page looked like the ReactJS logo (which is used to create user interfaces) so they probably just hastily put together a website, found a bunch of popular users, bought a domain, and then deployed it (the haste is probably supported by the capitalization error you saw). One thing I can see this being is basically a disguised survey. You saw that there were other pages (makeup and gaming are two completely different topics you showed in the video) so maybe when you click "vote" they are simply keeping track of what people liked what things. But more likely it is just an attempt to find a bunch of emails (maybe even to target them in later attacks?)

[@PnfrlEnm]

Funny that I see this just now, I saw a very similar scam ad that claimed that your brother (Porter Robinson) was teaching music production. And then a couple days later I see this video. THIS IS MORE THAN A COINCIDENCE! I MUST FLY TO JAPAN NOW!

[@Legorama13]

I've gotten a bunch of ads of the same picture of Robert Downey Jr. holding a clearly photoshopped poster of Avengers Infinity War/Endgame with all of the cast members' signatures. Another one that was extremely suspicious was an ad for a very poorly photoshopped t-shirt of Stan Lee with a bunch of random comic book characters (not even half of them were created by Stan Lee) that appeared less than a day after he passed away.

[@omoripilled]

FINALLY someone that does splatoon gameplay in the background hmm also was that a reference from the game at 6:51 "last ditch effort"

[@BluSpykz]

Scams in 2021 on Facebook ads too. Nothing gets better, or even more sophisticated, really...

[@desecaw13]

lmao the empty React homepage (react is what that atom is a logo for

[@vriska222]

expert "hyphen" class

[@LinnyUwU]

I'm glad I wasn't the first to think that it was a scam. Plus, I wouldn't want to know how to develop a game with no story or character design 101.

[@Sora-tk1tv]

Shigeru *MIyamoto*

[@babylonian]

the storied creator of MArio and ZElda

[@Lv5SuperTuba]

you are a true internet journalist tyfys

[@taylorcasale680]

I was literally expecting him to take a trip to Japan when I clicked on the video.

[@samcoy4243]

I saw that ad too, Miyamoto specifically. Didn’t trust it but I figured if it was real I’d see more about it.

[@hannahc3317]

If he had taught an online class, no one on the internet would shut up about it. Heck, even the rumour of something like that would be covered everywhere.

[@connerpinson]

It looks like their website is a deployed default React.js site from the create-react-app package. Like they basically just initialized the app and deployed it on the web with default code.

[@2kool4programmingschool]

The PNG of an atom means that the website is running on ReactJS. If you don’t know what ReactJS is, it’s a NodeJS thong for running a website.

[@PigeonHoledByYT]

This is one of the biggest issues I have with social media, Deceptive or fraudulent ads. I can't count the number of times I've seen ads for t-shirts or other products that are clearly stealing trademarked intellectual properties. Maybe I'm crazy, I just doubt that Marvel/Disney gave the rights to their properties to Bob's t-shirts. What infuriates me more however is when I report such scams, social media companies don't do anything about it. I can't imagine Facebook would be ok with me selling clothing with their logo on it. As such I don't see why they are ok with others selling t-shirts with other stolen properties.

[@psychic_digit]

I love how throughout the video, you don’t just say Expert Classes, you say Expert *hypen* Classes.

[@jadeedkamal3943]

Nick:Talks important stuff Me:Watching Splatoon Gameplay

[@ursusAmericanus]

I love how I'm getting ads for quick money scams on a video about a scam ad

[@aboyisnoone8265]

dude theres thousands of scam ads, from life gurus to fake video games. theres so much shit out there

[@ManicMiner6]

This is also a huge proplem on KZbin, I see obvious scams advertised on the KZbin home page alot and take screenshots every time, it's complete cancer

[@ssj3brolyoffical675]

I found one of there ads too. I'm a big Formula One fan so one of the ads was recommended was a driving course by one of the top drivers Lewis Hamilton.

[@mic5574]

These types of ads are very common on social medias, I really don't find it surprising.

[@Pro720HyperMaster720]

Lately I’m getting a lot of video deceivefull video ads on my KZbin feed of for example how to buy an iPhone 11 Pro for $5,99 and things like that, but litterally that around half of promoted/advertised videos where like that

[@LieseFury]

"shagiru miyamoto"

[@babyybatter]

instagram has no quality control. Once a random company just used a video from pokken and said the advert was the all new pokemon game that they made

[@Kapin05]

I think this was mostly done by a bot. The uniform web/ad design, version number under the home page (who does that for a popup scam?), _consistent_ spelling mistakes (every Miyamoto had a capital I!) and the use of what appears to be random Google image results of the people in question suggests to me that some guy wrote a bot to turn names into ads and web pages and used the Facebook and Instagram APIs to circulate the fraudulent ads automatically.

[@SunsetTheStupid]

Speaking of which I keep getting ads on KZbin talking about Mario Maker 2 on mobile which has a app icon with art from Mario 2. Yeah it’s a complete total scam.

[@kalamitus2269]

phew i thought nintendo did a bad scam for a second. i watched the etika breakdown stuff before this and i was scared nintendo got into some bad stuff as well.

[@ThePWNDR]

RIP ETIKA FOREVER

[@MFKitten]

I've seen ads that work similarly on Facebook, which is a fake interview with someone about bitcoin investments, and the celebrity that allegedly gets interviewed gets swapped out between ads.

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

Never stop Nick, your random videos are gems to watch

[@daandanx]

Instagram has some freaking dumb ads sometimes. I once got an ad about "GTA five for mobile!" (using some random guys GTA 5 let's play as the video) and it turned out to be a crappy fake port of GTA Vice City

[@Lizuma]

I never fall for suspicious things like that

[@maitequilla]

I got an ad for a masterclass with the author of Goosebumps lol

[@Bluey]

Instagram rhymes with Scam

[@BolognaLover]

I saw the same ad and was like wow. This is bad

[@Penguin_Tree]

Almost every ad on Instagram is a scam

[@BluecoreG]

Learn From Mr Mario. We will ask Super Mario himself to teach a master class.

[@SchoolofRockNRoll]

At 3:37 you see one of Etika's last IG posts. Rest in peace, my boy.

[@jmas2593]

I saw an ad for Shigeru Miyamoto, but it seemed suspicious... so I booked a flight to Japan to ask him if it was true.

[@deryski2575]

Oh my god Lois look, it’s shigeru myamoto from the super Mario company. This is like the time I met super Mario

[@Anthony8851]

1:40 5 red flags in 3 seconds... That's a new record!

[@Born...]

you should look up the ads on youtube that are sponsored lmao they just get worse and worse