Goomba fallacy

See also: goomba fallacy

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Named after a fictional species (Goomba) from Nintendo's Mario franchise. The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas, which was first posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024.[1][2]

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Noun

Goomba fallacy (plural Goomba fallacies)

  1. (Internet slang) A logical fallacy that occurs when someone sees contradictory opinions expressed on a social media site and mistakenly believes that those users 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) Twitter‎[1], archived from the original on 15 July 2025
  2. ^ “The Goomba Fallacy”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007

Further reading

  • Heddwen Newton (7 April 2025) “An explanation of 'the goomba fallacy' as used by young people in 2025”, in English in Progress‎[2] (blog), archived from the original on 15 July 2025
  • “Goomba fallacy”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
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