After 15 years, the man, myth, and infinitely meme-able legend Reggie Fils-Aime has finally kicked enough arse and taken enough names. He’s being succeeded as president of Nintendo of America by a man with the greatest name of all: Doug Bowser. Never before have the jokes so readily written themselves.
Within seconds of the announcement, the internet was ablaze with one hundred million variations on the exact same joke. This will continue indefinitely, probably until Doug Bowser retires, gives the position to a turtle who’s apparently not his kid, and goes back to harassing his local plumber. But you know what? It’s 2019 and the world is a nightmarish fun house mirror parody of itself. Let’s laugh about the high-powered executive with the cartoon dinosaur name.
After all these years, Nintendo just hands Bowser the keys to the Mushroom Kingdom.
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) February 21, 2019
This is the first photo of Doug Bowser when he joined Nintendo
We never getting a new Mario game ever again pic.twitter.com/thv6o9opvf
— Nibel (@Nibellion) February 21, 2019
sometimes i have to debate people on whether this is a serious industry or not and then they make bowser the CEO and i just https://t.co/HGUNNbIjJK
— shameboy advance (@failnaut) February 21, 2019
also let me confirm again that Doug Bowser did not, repeat NOT, change his last name for the Nintendo gig. Yes I asked https://t.co/d6hr1GIQ1Q
— Holly Green (@winnersusedrugs) February 21, 2019
Doug Bowser? This must be like when they hired a director for a Spider-Man movie just because his name was Marc Webb.
— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) February 21, 2019
Bowser on his first day as president of Nintendo of America pic.twitter.com/hGrvNSMOna
— Rhiwion (@rhiwion) February 21, 2019
Why is everyone shocked Bowser is now in charge of Nintendo America? Look how passionate he is about playing games with fans pic.twitter.com/UiVLHqxMlL
— Mica Burton (@MicaBurton) February 21, 2019
introducing Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser pic.twitter.com/YlCzLccoSo
— ǤЯIMΞCRΛFГ (@GRIMECRAFT) February 21, 2019
reggie fils-aime prepping for 2020 run
— kris graft (@krisgraft) February 21, 2019
Just wait until we hear about Activision’s next president, Steve Lootbox
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) February 21, 2019
Put Doug Bowser in Smash, you cowards
— Danielle Riendeau (@Danielleri) February 21, 2019
Ok here’s our chance to come up with a meme about Bowser and reggie.. hmm
— ToeJam & Earl IN ONE WEEK (@toejamandearl) February 21, 2019
At least 20% of the Bowser gifs on giphy are horny and we are done with that so nvm
— ToeJam & Earl IN ONE WEEK (@toejamandearl) February 21, 2019
“it says here that you’ve never had a job, have no degrees, and are proficient in no languages whatsoever.”
“yes but if you glance at the top my name is doug bowser.”— I’ll Be Right Ben (@bvigeant) February 21, 2019
i propose that we begin referring to their executives solely by their full names in order to avoid humanizing them. jeffrey bezos. douglas bowser. robert shitheel kotick
— merritt k (@merrittk) February 21, 2019
the nintendo guy being called bowser can’t happen. he’s gotta change his name. the posts are gonna be too bad. nintendo please you can’t allow this
— j a c k s o n (@headfallsoff) February 21, 2019
a guy named bowser is gonna be the new president of nintendo. prepare to hear the same joke 1,000 times pic.twitter.com/hYYNo1aIj3
— Olive Rae Brinker (@olivebrinker) February 21, 2019
Everyone, prepare to hear the constant jokes about how everyone will make constant jokes about Nintendo’s new president being called Bowser
— kara (@themirrorpool) February 21, 2019
seriously? they’re adding doug bowser to nintendo’s highest leadership echelon, but not doug waluigi? this is an outrage
— nathan grayson (@Vahn16) February 21, 2019
sure everybody loves to talk about doug bowser now that he’s president of nintendo america, but when jeff waluigi got his dick stuck in a vending machine, where were you????
— Tegiminis @ GDC’19 (@tegiminis) February 21, 2019
our body wasn’t ready for this many bowser jokes
— Kotaku (@Kotaku) February 21, 2019
i can’t believe someone named DOUG is taking over nintendo, that’s nuts!!!
— SungWon Cho (ProZD) (@prozdkp) February 21, 2019
Comments
6 responses to “The Internet Reacts To Bowser Taking Over Nintendo”
It’s just so perfect.
What happens when he puts the crown on though? Deb Bowsette?
Waiting on some wanna-be CEO changing their last name to ‘Fortnite’ to up their chance of promotion
Steve Lootbox heading up EA is a good gag
Haha Activision. My brain just interchanges the two :^)
A perfectly reasonable mistake to make.
Well after 15 years of working at Nintendo I do wish Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime all the best for his retirement.
I think Bowser will do a good job as the new Nintendo of America president because definitely deserves a break from trying to stop Mario saving the Princess.
Just a matter of time until Sony employs a dude named Mario XD…