3D model of Scripulous Fingore, a white blob creature with large eyes and a floating pointing hand.

Scripulous Fingore

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Published November 15, 2026

Scripulous Fingore refers to an April 2021 Twitter hoax claiming that a fully coded but unused ghost enemy by that name sits in the files of New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS, allegedly with Shigeru Miyamoto refusing to discuss it in an interview. Modeled on January 2021's Gumbly hoax, the joke inspired Photoshopped screenshots, fan art and a Friday Night Funkin' mod across Twitter within a week.

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Overview

Scripulous Fingore art follows a consistent visual template from the two original screenshots: a round white blob with two attached dot eyes and a wide curved mouth, cartoonish in a style close to the earlier Gumbly design2. The first image showed him floating in a New Super Mario Bros. stage about to poke Mario with an outstretched finger, while the second rendered his 3D model against a blank background, lending credibility to the fake datamine claim1.

Participants in the joke either make their own Fingore art or extend the hoax to other Nintendo titles. Examples include a Yoshi's Island-style sprite by @Hilltop_Heights4, a digital drawing by @DoodleDox5, and later Photoshops presenting Fingore as a recurring unused asset across the Mario series7. The tone stays deadpan: posters write as if they genuinely discovered the character in a ROM, mimicking the serious register of actual datamine accounts.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter (parody account)
Creator
@CutVideoGame
Date
2021

On April 23, 2021, the parody Twitter account @CutVideoGame, which poses as a cut-content archive for video games, posted a fake report: 'In the files for New Super Mario Bros. (DS), there's a fully coded, unused ghost enemy referred to as "scripulous_fingore". When asked about the enemy in an interview, Miyamoto disregarded the question, seeming unusually upset'1. The tweet paired an in-game screenshot with a 3D model render and drew over 20,000 likes and 3,800 retweets in four days7.

Same-day replies tied Fingore to a recent precedent. Twitter user @madjackrabbit answered the thread with a Photoshopped image of The Simpsons family seated next to Gumbly and the caption 'wait a fucking minute,' pointing to the visual overlap between Fingore and January 2021's Gumbly hoax2. Nintendo developed New Super Mario Bros.; no Nintendo employee made the Fingore meme, which is a fan-run prank originating with @CutVideoGame.

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How It Spread

Reaction edits appeared the same day as the original post. @IsannKeket replied with a video of Fingore lip-syncing 'It was you! You are the cringe ass nae nae baby of legend' using audio from Saltydkdan13, a clip that drew 70,000 views, 5,900 likes and 1,000 retweets in four days3. Additional first-day fan art included the Yoshi's Island sprite by @Hilltop_Heights4 and @DoodleDox's digital drawing5.

On April 24, @BowserJrPlush replied under the original thread with a Friday Night Funkin' rap battle edit pitting Fingore against Miyamoto6. The same day, @pynnion posted two Photoshopped screenshots of Fingore in Wii U Mario Maker with the claim that his code was 'all intact,' presenting him as an asset meant to return in the Maker series8. One day later, @AKoolKoopa added a photoshop placing Fingore into Super Mario 64 DS as a supposed cut boss, which drew 4,100 likes and 570 retweets in two days9.

On April 26, @JokerTony612 shared a preview of a Friday Night Funkin' Week mod featuring Fingore set to the 'Overworld' track from New Super Mario Bros.10, and @bros_ellis posted a thread of Fingore Photoshopped into older Mario titles with the mock-exasperated caption that everyone was surprised by an enemy he insisted was common, earning 2,900 likes and 560 retweets in a day11. Over a year later, on August 10, 2022, YouTuber DAK0TA! uploaded a short animation of Fingore raising his finger and wagging it with the caption 'nuh uh,' which drew more than 468,000 views in six months12.

Timeline

2021-04-23

@CutVideoGame posts the original Scripulous Fingore hoax with a fake in-game screenshot and 3D model render[1].

2021-04-23

@madjackrabbit links Fingore to January's Gumbly hoax with a Simpsons photoshop[2].

2021-04-23

@IsannKeket posts a 'cringe ass nae nae baby of legend' video edit using Saltydkdan audio[3].

2021-04-24

@BowserJrPlush replies with a Friday Night Funkin' rap battle edit of Fingore vs. Miyamoto[6].

2021-04-24

@pynnion posts fake Wii U Mario Maker sprites of Fingore in every game style[8].

2021-04-25

@AKoolKoopa photoshops Fingore into Super Mario 64 DS as a supposed cut boss[9].

2021-04-26

@JokerTony612 previews a Friday Night Funkin' Week mod set to 'Overworld' from New Super Mario Bros.[10].

2022-08-10

YouTuber DAK0TA! posts a 'nuh uh' finger-wag edit that draws over 468,000 views in six months[12].

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How to Use This Meme

Posts in the Fingore format typically Photoshop his round, finger-raising body into a screenshot from a classic Nintendo title and caption the image with a fake datamine claim, such as unused boss sprites or restored code. A common convention is to write in the clipped register of real ROM-hacking accounts and attribute Nintendo's silence about the character to Shigeru Miyamoto8.

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