MemoryMan3

"*This just in: Memoryman is a piece of trash.
In related news: The sky is blue.*"
— SomeBlindGuy in a GameFAQs post

**Memoryman3** is a GameFAQs user infamous for his love of Princess Daisy, to an overly obsessive degree. The majority consider him to be a troll, though his Daisy fixation went beyond a simple gimmick. He was primarily active from 2017 to 2019. After he closed down his original account on the site, he would take on the name of **re-memoryman3** as a replacement account before it too was closed in 2019. Memoryman is perhaps one of the most well-known users to have ever been a part of SmashFAQs, primarily due to his extreme devotion to the character of Daisy and his highly negative reception across the internet due to his behavior and views.

## Background and History

### First Encounters

Memoryman3 is a very vocal fan of Princess Daisy, and is one of the most infamous users on the site because of it. He would begin his activities on SmashFAQs during mid-2015, during the later half of Smash 4's DLC period, where he would start to build his reception as a Daisy-obsessed lunatic. He did not seen particularly special at first, but as time went on it became evident that he was not a typical fan of Daisy. He began to make a huge influx of topics in support of Daisy, occasionally showing clear denial against arguments made by other users. In addition to Smash, Memoryman also became well-known with his obsession over Daisy being made a costume in *Super Mario Maker* after her absence from the main game, with his behavior apparently being rewarded in November of that year. In the lead-up to the final DLC presentation in December 2015, he would start the hashtag #DaisyDecember, which would be mocked by several users on the board. Come the big day, and to little people's surprise Daisy was not among the final fighters being added to the roster. Surprisingly, Memoryman was actually quite civil and admitted defeat in a respectable post on the board. Most notably, he said good-bye to the board "for now." As it would soon turn out, he would be back only a month later and begin to post new topics at an even faster rate, much to the annoyance of many other users.

Memoryman would soon be known for his feverish displays of support towards Daisy on the Smash-related boards, including an unhealthy supply of topics arguing for her inclusion in the next installment of the series. Some saw him as a spiritual successor to the *Super Smash Bros. for Wii U* board's previous Daisy-loving troll, the infamous Michaeloll, though Memoryman would soon surpass him in notoriety. As time went on, it became abundantly clear that he was not merely a troll, but had developed a legitimate obsession over Daisy. One of Memoryman's most well-known moments would come when he ended up sending a .BAT virus to another user via a Discord server over a petty grudge he held against them. Knowledge of this soon caught wind, and he was widely condemned for his aggressive behavior. He would continue to be associated with this act, and it helped to elevate him from a mere nuisance to dangerously obsessive in his love for Daisy.

### The "Apology"

Eventually, in April 2018, Memoryman would come onto SmashFAQs to create a thread known as "Goodbye for good: I will be leaving this site forever. (and other sites)", where he would express regret for his previous actions. He claimed to have been "corrupted" by the site to the point where his obsession with Daisy was getting in the way of his real life activities and hobbies. He seemed to express guilt for his negative treatment for others and lamented he did this even into the first days of his adulthood. Memoryman promised that he would leave both the Smash and general Nintendo communities, only returning "months or even years later in a different name and with a different attitude." The post ended with him admitting to sending the virus, claiming no harm had been done since the target was smart enough to see through his scheme. While Memoryman would indeed close his GameFAQs account and seemingly be gone for a short time, it would not be long before he would return to his usual antics on the site and beyond, going against the promise he had previously made. Indeed, while this seemed to be a moment of welcome self-awareness at the time, it ended up being mostly meaningless in a little over a month.

While SmashFAQs was his main stomping grounds, Memoryman would not hesitate to show his love for the Sarasaland princess on other sites. Specifically, he had other notable presences on Smashboards, Twitter, YouTube, and Nintendo Life. A particularly notable (and hilarious) incident came when he agreed to provide footage from his YouTube channel for the Daisy episode of Source Gaming's series Rate That Character, where they would evaluate the chances of various characters making it onto the Smash roster. When the episode was released, Memoryman complained due to the video not being positive enough about Daisy's chances and led to the team choosing to reupload the video with new footage. Due to his obsessive behavior over the character of Daisy, MemoryMan's notoriety would soon spread even beyond GameFAQs, with many dreading and mocking his name.

### Re-memoryman3

By miraculous chance, Daisy would actually end up on the roster of *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*, much to the delight of Memoryman. While she was only put in as a clone of Peach who got relatively little fanfare during her reveal in the E3 2018 presentation for the game, he was still initially overjoyed that his support had actually led to the character's inclusion. Even with his princess finally added to Smash, Memoryman would not relent in his celebration of the character and continued posting on SmashFAQs under his new name of re-memoryman3. Though initially happy with her inclusion, signs of dissatisfaction with the way she was portrayed as a clone of Peach began to surface. One of his favorite activities after the reveal was to make topic after topic explaining why Daisy had a *ton of differences* from Peach despite being presented as a glorified palette swap to her, clearly in denial of her basically being a model swap of Peach. Ironically, Daisy would actually end up being the clone with the least differences in the history of the series, with all of her differences basically amounting to a few aesthetic changes aside from a slight difference in how their turnips worked which made her almost objectively worse than Peach before being patched out soon after discovery. Even with this knowledge, Memoryman would not concede and would continue to post about any minuscule difference that would "prove" Daisy to be more than just a quick addition to the roster. Memoryman's attempts to downplay Daisy's clone status would also expand to include efforts to drag other Echo Fighters down to her level, most notably Ken, Chrom, and Lucina. This would all culminate in him repeatedly vandalizing SmashWiki's article on clones, usually attempting to re-word the sections about the Echo Fighters in Ultimate to make Daisy seem like less of a clone, most notably removing the description of her being "completely identical" to Peach and instead adding that description to the sections of other Echo Fighters, listing differences that serve no real function in gameplay in order to make her seem more unique than she actually is, and repeatedly attempting to replace the image of Mario and Dr. Mario at the start of the page to instead be one of Daisy and Peach [1].

Memoryman's activities would continue on into the DLC period of Ultimate, where he would mostly continue to just dwell on the same topics as usual. Most users would just continue to share their mutual dislike of him. His reception would suffer another huge drop when he ended up making some transphobic comments on Twitter. Most of the community was quick to express their disgust at this, and he would be banned from UK-held tournaments by both DAT Team and Team Regen for these comments. One of the last notable actions was spending around £200 of his parents' money to unlock Dr. Baby Daisy in the mobile game *Dr. Mario World*. In September 2019, his Twitter account would finally be suspended, with re-memoryman being closed by himself around the same time. While his Smashboards and YouTube accounts still remain up, both have been inactive since September 2019. His last posted video was of him playing as Daisy in *Mario Kart Tour*.

## Legacy

While it is quite possible that Memoryman may indeed return to his usual antics in the future (as he did before after his infamous apology), as of now he has been inactive for quite some time. Perhaps he will finally act on his promise from before and only return after a good length of time under a new name, making a fresh start for himself. Regardless, the legacy of Memoryman3 left is far from one of honor. Very few actually remember him with any real fondness, and most that do mainly just remember him in a humorous light. It's fair to say that he was likely at least the most famous Daisy fan to ever exist, albeit for the wrong reasons.

## Personality

Memoryman is best known for his obsession over the fictional character Daisy from the *Mario* series, with it being taken to a very unhealthy point. While often considered to be a troll, his behavior related to the character went well beyond this title. As he himself admitted in his original apology, other parts of his life had begun to suffer as a result of his obsession, and it's quite likely this effect would continue after his return from his short hiatus. The incident with *Dr. Mario World* also shows that he's willing to drop real money for Daisy, even when said money isn't actually his own. Some have claimed he even did some "unsavory" acts with a Daisy plush he owned.

It has been displayed on various occasions that Memoryman is willing to show aggressive behavior towards others who don't give him what he wants, particularly those who seem to act in some way against Daisy. The best example of this is obviously the virus incident, where he was willing to literally destroy another user's computer over a small disagreement. He seems to also hold hate towards certain groups of people, as shown by his comments against trans people.

## Parody Accounts

### real-memoryman3

real-memoryman3 joined the board on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:39 PM