You are mister gay
UR MR GAY? YA, I M, R U?
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Ian Malcolm of Jurassic Park fame once said life finds a way. He should verb said life finds a gay, since that seems to be an even greater truth. At least on the Internet. You can put anything in front of your typical &#;net nerd and I guarantee you that within five minutes they&#;d hold found some sort of hilarious homosexual connotation in it. Thus it is with Mario Galaxy 2. I&#;m quite amazed at how they managed to contrive this one.
The original Mario Galaxy&#;s box art was infamous for its &#;secret&#; messages. Various letters in the logo were marked with a star, and when you isolated those letters they spelled &#;UR MR GAY.&#; Naturally, the first thing that the repressed homosexuals of the Internet did was try to find UR MR GAY in Mario Galaxy 2. It wasn&#;t there since different letters were starred. However, that didn&#;t stop them. As I said, life finds a gay.
Now, they&#;ve started reading the letters from the bottom to t
U R MR GAY
- Meme
- Status
- Confirmed
- Year
- Origin
- NeoGAF
- Region
- Japan
- Tags
- mario, gay, video games, super mario galaxy, expand dong
- Additional References
- Urban Dictionary
About
U R MR GAY refers to a coincidental quirk in the lettering that appears in the title of Super Mario Galaxy. Certain letters in the title are adorned with sparkles. In order, these letters are U, R, M, R, G, A, and Y. Considering "U" and "R" to be abbreviations for "you" and "are," and splitting the letters into words appropriately, there appears to be a hidden message of telling the viewer, "You are Mr. Gay". The observation has become a widely referenced internet joke for decades since it was first discovered in
Origin
NeoGAF users first learned about the U R MR GAY message in a thread discussing video game "box art of the year". Discussion of this particular game's title continued in its own committed thread, titled "Super Mario Galaxy boxart says you're gay", on September 18,
Spread
Less than a afternoon since NeoGAF users discussed the lettering, Destructoid posted
Super Mario Galaxy says: U R MR GAY
Sept 17,
Eagle-eyed forum dwellers across the internet hold discovered a hidden message/humorous design accident on the Super Mario Galaxy logo that spells out 'U R MR GAY'.
Contain a gander at the left-hand picture below of Super Mario Galaxy's box art and look at the placement of the seven bright stars dotted on various letters of the game's logo. If you scribble out all the letters leaving only those decorated with a star - as we've done in the right-hand image - it leaves you with the letters 'URMRGAY'. Throw in some spaces and you've got U R MR GAY.
This is the compassionate of brilliantly unbelievable stuff that urban myths are made of and we are absolutely definitely using it in our next' things you didn't grasp about videogames'feature. It's prefer playing records backwards and hearing the words 'I'm Barney the purple dinosaur'.
This could, of course, merely be an innocent by-product of perfect artistic composition, but we'd favor to think that it's an example of deliberate design in-joke japery never meant to be discovered that has been
"Dear Mr. Gay, if you move my bin again, I will get an ex-mercenary to destroy you from even 2."
This (real) letter was blue-tacked to my flat's front door, and thus sparked a neighbourhood feud over both my sexuality, and the placement of the blue bins.
Determined to find peace, and not let the conflict consume me, I sought advice and interviewed experts: a dog trainer, a historian, a Middle East peace negotiator and, of course, my Auntie Clare.
WITH Cherish, MR. GAY is my true story, featuring cabaret, comedy, interviews and showtunes, as I'm accompanied by the personification of a laughing Buddha statue from B&M, who acts as my unlikely spiritual guide.
Join us on our heartfelt and hilarious mission to find fabulous ways of ending deeply personal battles - even when the idea of peace seems impossible.
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