Fat Bowser Gif

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The Fat Bowser Gif is a piece of cursed media that was popularized in the Mega Man Maker Discord. The gif originates from a video originally posted in the Discord by user Galynx on June 16th 2021, however, the first recorded instance of the gif being posted was by user Wowowood on July 6th 2021. A few days after the gif was popularized, Discord moderator Goldstorm banned posting of the bowser gif or video on July 8th 2021.

## Contents of the Video

Due to the wishes of the staff, neither the video nor the gif may be posted here, but it can be described.

The video opens with a very large and overweight depiction of Bowser facing to the left, and while he is not naked due to his Chain Chomp thong, it is clearly made for pornographic intent. Shortly after the video starts, he roars and slaps his ass, letting out a little bit of gas in the form of fire out of his rear end, upon doing this, Bowser laughs. Shortly after doing so, the Koopa King's stomach starts rumbling, to which he makes a few grunts of concern and confusion. Bowser then rips a fat one while also breathing fire, which due to the nature of the rest of the video, we can assume is him belching and not his usual fire breath. After all of the gas is expelled from his body he laughs it off, while gesturing his mild embarrassment with his left arm.

The Fat Bowser Gif depicts the same events of the video, but in gif form of course, meaning that audio of bowser's grunts and roars are absent.

## Popularization and Downfall

The video was initially posted by the user Galynx on June 16th 2021. This post was spoiler tagged meaning that users had to download the video to see it, which may have been the reason why this initial post did not garner much attention, Galynx did however warn in the original post that "when you see it there's no going back". Later that same day, Galynx posted the Fat Bowser Video without any spoiler tags and without text, this post was much more popular than the original, getting put into #Hall\_of\_Memes that very day. The video was often memed on throughout the rest of the month, but did not evolve until July 6th 2021, where user Wowowood posted the video in gif form. The following few days, the gif was spammed heavily, and although the period of the gif being posted is much shorter than the period of the video, it is likely remembered due to the sheer volume of it being posted. Due to the magnitude at which the gif was spammed, the mods were allerted, and on July 8th 2021, Goldstorm stated that "anyone that posts that meme (the bowser gif/video) will have their access to this channel and reaction privileges revoked", banning both the bowser gif and video only a few days after the gif began to circulate.

## The Ban

On the 5th of August 2021, the Gif, the Copypasta and any references to the two were banned from the Mega Man Maker Discord Server due to their illicit nature and the Admins' wishes to remove the ambiguity of what is acceptable content and what isn't. This led to a negative reaction from the community, including the creation of a new Copypasta, though it didn't spread too much.

## Removal

On November 9th, 2021, it was made known and widespread that the gif had been removed from tenor's database.

## Trivia

* The gif has surfaced to be one of the top results for bowser on tenor on multiple occasions, and even as of writing this it's in the top 6 results.
* In addition to the gif and video in question being banned, another top result on bowser on tenor has also gotten verbal warnings given to some users, the gif being the one depicting bowser dancing in a speedo. The gif got users warned due to the fact that bowser's nutsack is visible through his speedo, and is waving along with him.
* Despite this meme being known as The Bowser Gif, it has actually existed in the server for much longer as the video. It is known as the gif because despite it only existing for 3 days as that, the magnitude at which it was spammed actually made it posted even more times than the original video.
* Multiple "Fat Bowser Replacement Gifs" have surfaced, the first of which being one depicting a man pissing, burping, and farting while being recorded by a infrared camera which made his gasses look similar in nature to Bowser's fire. This gif however was also banned as it was a gif of a man actually pissing. The current replacement is one of Peter Griffin from Family Guy farting onto a lit match, creating a flamethrower of sorts.