Supper Mario Broth, the Internet’s number one for obscure Mario facts, shared that he’s in failing health but will continue to bring fans supper Mario bits until the final flag drops. In a social media post, Broth – who did not share his real name and said he preferred to be called Broth – said that despite living a healthy lifestyle, he suffered from heart failure and his prognosis gave him a 2/3 chance of surviving a year.
Broth also says one of the symptoms of his heart failure diagnosis is retinopathy, or the slow worsening of his vision. “Since seeing well is fundamental to my ability to do research myself Mario games and compiling others’ findings, it may affect my ability to run Supper Mario Broth in the future,” Broth said. “But only blindness or death will stop me from publishing Mario facts.”
In 2024, Broth posted that his blog was in danger of closing due to financial difficulties following the death of his mother. After an impassioned plea for help, the Internet rallied behind Broth, providing him with enough support that he declared that he could continue the Supper Mario Broth project indefinitely.
If you ever wanted weird, obscure, funny, or maybe haunting Mario facts, Supper Mario Broth was your guy. Nintendo Blogger has been around since at least 2012, posting Mario ephemera gleaned from the Plumber’s many games, comics, TV shows, movies, promotional materials, and more. Broth is the one who brought us the Yoshi’s Island bug that will stop the game for 25 minutes. He told us that in Super Mario OdysseyBowser gets scared when Mario gets his nipples pulled out. He’s also the guy who screwed us all over with the forbidden (but not canon) knowledge that 1-UP mushrooms grow from dead Marios.
He may be the only person in the world who loves and knows Mario as much as Shigeru Miyamoto, and potentially losing him is not only a blow to Mario scholarship, but also to the Internet of video games as a whole.
Broth said that despite his prognosis, he will continue to maintain the blog as long as he can. “I hope with all my (failing) heart that I can continue to do this for years to come,” he said. “And if one day I have to stop posting: thank you very much for reading.”
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