Ur mr gay super mario galaxy
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 have 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 have 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 verb 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 star
U R MR GAY
- Meme
- Status
- Confirmed
- Year
- 2007
- 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 2007.
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 possess dedicated thread, titled "Super Mario Galaxy boxart says you're gay", on September 18, 2007.
Spread
Less than a day since NeoGAF users discussed the lettering, Dest
Super Mario Galaxy says: U R MR GAY
Sept 17, 2007
Eagle-eyed forum dwellers across the internet have discovered a hidden message/humorous design accident on the Super Mario Galaxy logo that spells out 'U R MR GAY'.
Have 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 kind of brilliantly impossible stuff that urban myths are made of and we are absolutely definitely using it in our next'101 things you didn't know about videogames'feature. It's love 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 prefer to contemplate that it's an example of deliberate design in-joke japery never meant to be discovered that ha
Isn't it wonderful? I'm especially giddy about the inclusion of the ambiguously gay Yoshi.
Speaking of things that (probably) are gay, a few astute NeoGAFfers (and Eric Caoili over at tinycartridge.com) have pointed out that the sparkles in the Super Mario Galaxy 2logo no longer spell out "U R MR GAY." Instead, they spell out "U R MI ALY."
Hmm, maybe this is Nintendo's way of saying Mario is OK with the fact that Yoshi is gay--and, as such, the general gaming public should be OK with it, too? Yes, I think that's exactly what it is...
Watch:Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer