'If there is something that Nintendo could point me too that caused this, I would gladly fix that given the opportunity,' GrandPooBear added on Twitter. Nintendo has not responded to a request for comment from Ars Technica. It's unclear whether or to what extent human moderators are involved in level deletion decisions for the millions of levels that have been uploaded to Super Mario Maker 2 thus far. I was told this is what happened to me in when they deleted all of my levels.' 'Since my other two levels are training levels and get lots of hearts, the threshold for deleting those is probably much higher than a crazy-hard Kaizo level which won't get as many plays. 'I think it's just a situation where, because I am a streamer, we get a lot of false reports,' he told Ars. Speaking to Ars Technica over email, GrandPooBear says he thinks he's the victim of players abusing Nintendo's in-game course reporting system for fun. Nintendo's move comes as Reddit user zach2thefuture reports his Super Mario Maker 2 level, 'Storm Area 51,' was also removed for 'inappropriate or harmful content.' The level was an apparent reference to a popular meme which has thus far attracted over 1.3 million people to sign up on Facebook to attend a 'Storm Area 51' event purportedly focused on a mass infiltration of Nevada's Area 51 military base to 'see them aliens.' “I would rather make a ROM hack” In an email from Nintendo that GrandPooBear shared on Twitter, the company cites 'inappropriate and/or harmful content' as the reason for the removal of 'Kai-Zero G,' which represents the company's 'final decision' on the matter. Nintendo maintains a Code of Conduct that allows it to remove Super Mario Maker 2 courses for a number of reasons, including exploitation of in-game bugs, inappropriate content 'such as offensive language,' and explicit advertising or promotional materials. Three years ago, he found all of his popular levels in the original Super Mario Maker had been deleted, a state of affairs Nintendo was not able to adequately explain in a recorded call with the streamer at the time.

This was enough to put it on the first page of popular 'Super Expert' courses in the game.īut today isn't the first time GrandPooBear has faced the seeming caprice of Nintendo's online moderation.

Since its upload on July 5, the low-gravity course-which took its name from the ultra-hard set of Mario ROM hacks known as Kaizo games-had received over 1,200 'hearts' from over 10,500 players as of last night.

Further Reading Super Mario Maker 2 review: A great sequel, playable on a better consoleDavid Hunt, a popular Mario speedrunner who goes by GrandPooBear online, noted this morning that his level 'Pile of Poo: Kai-Zero G' had been unceremoniously removed from Nintendo's Super Mario Maker 2 servers.

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