# Lario (Pizza Tower) Lario is a nickname fans gave to a background character seen in the loading screen for the Gnome Forest level of indie game Pizza Tower, turned into a meme by a repetitive TikTok slideshow set to Young Thug's "Everybody Wanna Be A Superstar" layered over Kevin MacLeod's "Sneaky Snitch." The October 2022 TikTok sat quiet for months before Pizza Tower Discord servers pushed it onto Twitter and YouTube in early February 2023, where extended cuts and fan art pulled in tens of thousands of views. By mid-February 2023, artists were drawing high-quality redraws of the three-character huddle and producing YTPMV edits of the loop. ## Origin On October 3rd, 2022, TikTok user @guythmind uploaded a video that repeated the same Pizza Tower loading-screen image across its runtime, pairing it with the Young Thug and Kevin MacLeod audio mashup[6]. The image was pulled from the Gnome Forest level screen, which shows three characters sitting in the grass[7]. In a later YouTube reupload, @guythmind said in the comments that he grabbed the picture from a Twitch stream by McPig_Jr, the alt account of Pizza Tower developer Pizza Tower Guy[2]. The original TikTok only drew about 350 plays over its first four months, so the clip effectively sat dormant through late 2022[2]. Pizza Tower itself did not launch publicly until January 2023, which gave the dormant clip a fresh audience of players looking up every background character in the game. - **Platform:** TikTok (origin) / YouTube and Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown (earliest known poster: TikToker @guythmind) - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview Lario refers to one of three figures sitting in the grass on the Gnome Forest loading screen in Pizza Tower, a 2023 indie platformer by Tour De Pizza[1]. Fans latched onto the squat, mustached character because he looks like a budget Mario, and the nickname traveled with a slideshow format that cycles the same loading-screen image again and again while Young Thug's "Everybody Wanna Be A Superstar" plays over Kevin MacLeod's "Sneaky Snitch"[2]. A typical Lario post is either the frozen slideshow itself, an extended loop version, or fan art that redraws the three-character huddle in sharper detail[3]. Artists on Twitter treated the figure like an unofficial mascot, giving him cleaner lineart and sometimes a full color scheme[4]. YouTube producers took the audio and built YTPMV edits around it, chopping the vocal line into musical patterns synced to the image[5]. ## How It Spread The video likely circulated in private Pizza Tower Discord servers through late 2022 and early 2023 before breaking out onto public platforms[2]. On February 4th, 2023, Twitter user @TheNerdFella posted the clip and picked up around 1,000 views and 19 likes over 16 days[2]. The next day, February 5th, YouTuber ScruffTuna uploaded an extended version that drew roughly 34,800 views and 1,900 likes in 15 days, which gave the meme its biggest early boost[8]. Fan art followed quickly. On February 13th, 2023, Twitter artist @KetArtDragon posted a self-drawn high-quality take on the Lario image and gained around 11,400 likes in a week[9]. YouTuber Rolobi had already uploaded a YTPMV edit on February 7th that reached about 25,000 views and 1,800 likes in 13 days, giving the audio its own remix lineage separate from the slideshow format[10]. By spring 2023, Lario was a running joke inside Pizza Tower fan circles rather than a format with wider platform reach. Searches for the nickname still pull up the same cluster of edits and redraws from that February window[2]. ## How to Use Lario posts typically reuse the Gnome Forest loading-screen image without edits, letting the song do the work, or swap in a redrawn version that keeps the same seated pose[4]. YTPMV creators often cut the Young Thug vocal into rhythmic stutters while flashing the image in time with the beat[5]. Artists sometimes isolate the Lario figure from his two companions and give him his own portrait, treating the nickname as if it were an official character name. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Lario (Pizza Tower)? Lario is a fan nickname for a seated, mustached background character on the Gnome Forest loading screen in Pizza Tower, spread through a TikTok slideshow set to a Young Thug and Kevin MacLeod audio mashup[2]. ### Where did Lario (Pizza Tower) come from? TikToker @guythmind posted the original slideshow video on October 3rd, 2022, using an image he said he grabbed from a McPig_Jr Twitch stream[2]. ### What does Lario (Pizza Tower) mean? The name is a riff on Mario, assigned to the character because his short build and mustache make him look like a lower-budget version of Nintendo's plumber[1]. ### How do you use Lario (Pizza Tower)? People reshare the loading-screen image on loop with the original audio, draw cleaner versions of the three-figure composition, or build YTPMV edits that cut the song into rhythmic patterns[5]. ### Is Lario (Pizza Tower) still popular? After its February 2023 peak with extended cuts and fan art, Lario settled into a running joke inside Pizza Tower fan circles rather than a format with wider reach[9]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG57LowhQ44]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lario-pizza-tower]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lw0JB9j6L8]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lpAlHDZv7U]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMaGK4rcASs]() 6. [https://www.tiktok.com/@guythmind/video/7150337149441674542]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6itJRrolk]() 8. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UzfxrCFJf8]() 9. [https://twitter.com/KetArtDragon/status/1625117773285281794]() 10. [https://twitter.com/TheNerdFella/status/1621966010596163586]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/lario-pizza-tower Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library