9 million+ people watched Super Mario Bros on Twitter

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If you were wondering what getting rid of the vast majority of Twitter staff, including moderators, might do to the site, here’s one bit of anarchy for you.

After attempting something similar a few days ago, the account “vids that go hard” with 1.1 million followers has posted the entirety of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, yes the one that’s still in theaters and just crossed $1 billion at the box office, illegally to Twitter.

(Update: It appears Twitter finally woke up and deleted the video. But the vids account does not seem to have been punished in any capacity. Original article follow)

The movie is indeed the full length, uploaded in two parts. The aspect ratio is a bit messed up but the overall quality is pretty high. This is possible not only because Twitter mods appear to be asleep at the wheel (at the time of this writing, this has been up for seven hours), but because a Twitter Blue subscription now allows you to upload hour-long videos in high quality, which makes the piracy shown here much, much easier.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie rip posted here has racked up 9 million views in those seven hours it’s been online and racking up about 200,000 new views every few minutes. Obviously I don’t think this is exactly hurting the box office of the film which is one of the highest grossing movies of the year and double any other video game movie’s revenue already, but it’s more about the weirdness that Twitter has become when it’s understaffed and offering Blue subscribers tools without really thinking them through.

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