Supper Mario Broth, the internet’s number one guy for obscure Mario facts, has shared that he’s in failing health but will continue to bring fans Mario morsels to sup upon until the last flag falls. In a post on social media, Broth—who has not shared his real name and says he prefers to go by Broth—said that despite living a healthy lifestyle, he has heart failure and that his prognosis gives him a 2/3 chance to survive a year.
Broth also says that one of the symptoms of his heart failure diagnosis is retinopathy, or the slow degradation of his eyesight. “Since being able to see well is fundamental to my ability to both myself research Mario games and compile the discoveries of others, this may affect my ability to run Supper Mario Broth in the future,” Broth said. “But only blindness or death will result in me no longer posting Mario facts.”
In 2024, Broth posted that his blog was in danger of shutting down due to strained finances in the wake of his mother’s passing. After an impassioned plea for help, the internet rallied around Broth, providing him with enough support that he said he’d be able to continue the Supper Mario Broth project indefinitely.
If you’ve ever wanted weird, obscure, fun, or possibly haunting facts about Mario, Supper Mario Broth was your guy. The Nintendo blogger has been around since at least 2012 posting Mario ephemera gleaned from the plumber’s many games, comics, TV shows, movies, advertising materials, and more. Broth is the one who brought us the Yoshi’s Island glitch that will stop the game for 25 minutes. He told us that in Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser gets scared when Mario has his nipples out. He’s also the guy who fucked us all up with the forbidden (though not canon) knowledge that 1-UP mushrooms grow from dead Marios.
He is possibly 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 the cool gaming internet as a whole.
Broth said that despite his prognosis, he will continue to maintain the blog for as long as he can. “I hope with all my (failing) heart that I can continue doing this for years to come,” he said. “And if I should one day stop posting: thank you very much for reading.”
