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Random: Twitter Almost Thought 2B From NieR: Automata Was Confirmed For Smash

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<p>Yesterday, a Twitter account petitioning for the YoRHa combat android 2B (from <strong>NieR: Automata</strong>) to be added to <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/super_smash_bros_ultimate">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate</a></strong> as a DLC fighter, tricked a lot of people. You see, in the lead-up to <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/animal_crossing_new_horizons">Animal Crossing: New Horizons</a></strong>, Nintendo of America’s Twitter has been sending out automated responses to Twitter users, saying it will message them when the game releases on 20th March.</p>
<p>Every tweet it sends out includes the handle of an account and the word “confirmed” immediately after this. People saw this particular tweet, identified that it was a response from an official Nintendo account and quickly lost their minds thinking it was the real deal. It even got more than 10,000 likes:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/2BforSmash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@2BforSmash</a> Confirmed! We’ll send you a note when <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AnimalCrossing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AnimalCrossing</a>: New Horizons releases on 3/20.</span>— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1238523929804898304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The account that received this automated message made the most of the opportunity by pretending 2B had been confirmed for Smash Bros. Ultimate because Nintendo said so. This tweet was then favourited more than 19,000 times:</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="en" dir="ltr">2B for Smash CONFIRMED! Nintendo said it themselves… <a href="https://t.co/AglavNrO5a">https://t.co/AglavNrO5a</a></span>— YoRHa 2B for Smash (@2BforSmash) <a href="https://twitter.com/2BforSmash/status/1238524182163361794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="en" dir="ltr">Nintendo sends AC:NH reminder tweets to Twitter accounts. One of them has the username Pikmin42020, creating the combination of words “Pikmin 4 2020 confirmed.” People find this and freak out.</p>
<p>This is how desperate we are.</p>
<p>This is what Nintendo is doing to our poor minds. <a href="https://t.co/BQm7maUFg5">https://t.co/BQm7maUFg5</a></p>
<p></span>— Arlo (like the YouTuber but on Twooter) (@ArloStuff) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArloStuff/status/1238849101736755200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Not long after this, something similar happened when a Twitter account with the handle ‘Pikmin42020’ got the same automated message (see above). Sorry to disappoint, but just to be clear – 2B isn’t coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (as far as we know) and <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/pikmin">Pikmin 4</a></strong> hasn’t been confirmed for 2020 (at least yet).</p>
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