Released this week, Nintendo The second wave of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Booster Course DLC pack, which included Sky High Sundae – An all-new addition to the Mario Kart franchise.
It was a Nintendo ad This was followed by a video that surprised the Internet. It revealed that Coconut Mall, a course that was first introduced on the Wii, will receive a slight update. In the new version, Shy Guy drivers waiting near the finish line – the last obstacle drivers face when reaching the finish line – will spin donuts chaotically in their attempts to slow players down.
Something like this looks better, so here’s the linked video showing you the update, and how Shy Guys is trying to get you off track.
In the meantime, there has been an update of the Coconut Mall… pic.twitter.com/WXiQhOCLSL
– Nintendo America August 4, 2022
The video, which shows Princess Peach being heavily criticized by a shy man after being bombarded with a red shell, went viral, garnering more than 33,000 likes and more than 700,000 views.
The internet clearly couldn’t resist the meme potential this latest gem has.
TheNCSmaster tweeted out this hilarious video A comparison of how Shy Guys are essentially competing in the same donut-spinning competition that Mordecai and Rigby enter, in order to have a cameo on their favorite cop show on the Carter and Briggs of Regular Show episode.
Coconut Mall Shy Guys Pre-Update:
*permanent garden*Coconut Mall Shy Guys after the update: https://t.co/F8eUm6BABj pic.twitter.com/YSddmfs0b1
– TheNCSmaster (TheNCSmaster) August 4, 2022
ElliotDuby didn’t exactly call Saulbut he referenced the Breaking Bad episode where Walter White goes crazy spinning a donut in Walter Jr’s red Dodge Challenger SRT8.
The Shy Guys after the Mario Kart update https://t.co/9gALuZY2k5 pic.twitter.com/cMQrkYqGiv
– Elliot Duby (@elliotduby) August 4, 2022
But most hilarious, Ronald MacDonald’s page was out of contextMcDonaldsOOC tweeted this hilarious video of good ol’ Ron walking around in a weird McDonald’s mobile.
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Coconut Mall update is something like: pic.twitter.com/jUERaBJMiZ
– Ronald McDonald out of context (McDonaldsOOC) August 4, 2022
But of course, the meme’s potential is unlimited, and that’s just a distinct feature of the over 2,800 quoted tweets attached, so go check out the rest for yourself in the original tweet linked above!
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