Goomba fallacy

See also: goomba fallacy

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Etymology

Named after a fictional species (Goomba) from Nintendo's Mario franchise. The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024.[1]

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Noun

Goomba fallacy (plural Goomba fallacies)

  1. (Internet slang) A logical fallacy that occurs when someone sees contradictory opinions expressed by members of a group and mistakenly believes that those people are being hypocritical, when in reality those contradictory opinions were expressed by separate individuals.
    Hypernym: association fallacy
    Coordinate term: Galileo fallacy

References

  1. ^ @supersylvie_ (29 January 2024), “what if instead of wojaks they were something cool like goombajaks and looked like this”, in Twitter‎[1], archived from the original on 15 July 2025

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