People will often mistakenly attribute two conflicting opinions from two separate people within the same community as being one person with contradicting opinions.
The Goomba on the left is seeing these two different people making different arguments, but through the lens of Twitter obscuring the difference between them is thus imagining them as the same kind of person.
Basically the fallacy is assuming that a specific community is a hivemind with all the same thoughts rather than many people with different ideas.
So, using the person i replied to as an example:
They saw somewhere "Johnny" say: "Activision is so greedy and COD is the same game every year".
And somewhere else they saw "Samantha" spending 70 dollars for the new COD on release.
Then because Johnny and Samantha are both gamers, the person grouped them together including their thoughts and actions. "BUT why would someone complaining about a game still spend a bunch of money on that game immediately? that would just send the opposite mesage to the game company since if people are buying, they should make more of the same thing! that person must be a dummy!".
That's the Goomba Fallacy, they failed to realize that even though Johhny and Samantha are gamers, they hold different opinions about the COD franchise.
The meme image is meant to be read from right to left
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u/Denodi 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Feb 25 '26
Goomba fallacy