{"id":193961,"date":"2025-09-25T05:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2145032"},"modified":"2025-09-25T05:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:19:28","slug":"patreon-pulls-nsfw-bowser-art-following-reported-nintendo-copyright-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/patreon-pulls-nsfw-bowser-art-following-reported-nintendo-copyright-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Patreon pulls NSFW Bowser art following reported Nintendo copyright claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/patreon-pulls-nsfw-bowser-art-following-reported-nintendo-copyright-claim.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember the good old days of Bowsette? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2018-12-27-moments-of-2018-bowsette-or-when-nintendo-proved-no-one-can-subvert-it-like-itself\">cross between Bowser and Princess Peach<\/a> fuelled a wave of extremely NSFW artwork on the internet, and naturally, the internet wasn&#8217;t quite done with Bowser yet. We now have another entry in the &#8220;things that upset Nintendo&#8221; catalogue, as a 3D model of Bowser&#8217;s penis has been removed from Patreon &#8211; seemingly as a result of a Nintendo copyright claim. <\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/bowser-penis-patreon-nintendo\/\">Daily Dot<\/a>, 3D adult modeller AkkoArcade said that their prop of Bowser&#8217;s penis, intended for use in Source Filmmaker videos, had been removed from Patreon due to a Nintendo copyright claim. &#8220;This peepee got claimed by Nintendo,&#8221; AkkoArcade tweeted. If you really want to see the model in its full glory &#8211; and I warn you it is extremely NSFW &#8211; you can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akkoarcade\/status\/1380764674656858117?s=20\">original tweet here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>AkkoArcade has theorised that a random person could have made the copyright strike while pretending to be Nintendo, but regardless, Patreon has chosen to pull the model. They also theorised that an automated system looking for Nintendo names could have flagged the prop, as the post was directly named after Bowser. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-13-patreon-pulls-nsfw-bowser-art-following-reported-nintendo-copyright-claim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-04-13-patreon-pulls-nsfw-bowser-art-following-reported-nintendo-copyright-claim\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the good old days of Bowsette? The cross between Bowser and Princess Peach fuelled a wave of extremely NSFW artwork on the internet, and naturally, the internet wasn&#8217;t quite done with Bowser yet. We now have another entry in the &#8220;things that upset Nintendo&#8221; catalogue, as a 3D model of Bowser&#8217;s penis has been removed from Patreon &#8211; seemingly as a result of a Nintendo copyright claim. As reported by the Daily Dot, 3D adult modeller AkkoArcade said that their prop of Bowser&#8217;s penis, intended for use in Source Filmmaker videos, had been removed from Patreon due to a Nintendo copyright claim. &#8220;This peepee got claimed by Nintendo,&#8221; AkkoArcade tweeted. 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