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English
Etymology
Named after the fictional species Goomba from Nintendo's Mario franchise. The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using the characters as a substitute for Wojaks, which was popularized in 2024 on social media alongside the phrase.
Pronunciation
Noun
Goomba fallacy (plural Goomba fallacies)
- (Internet slang, rhetoric) A formal fallacy that asserts that two or more mutually exclusive propositions by separate authors are a self-contradiction made by a single author or collective group; typically when asserted on social media.
- Hypernym: association fallacy
- Coordinate term: Galileo fallacy
References
- Newton, Heddwen (2025 April 7) “An explanation of ‘the goomba fallacy’ as used by young people in 2025”, in English in Progress (blog)
- “Goomba fallacy”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.