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In January 2021, a meme started circulating on social media that featured a picture of a boy named Paco Gutierrez, a cardboard Nintendo Gameboy he supposedly made, and a piece of text claiming that the company sued him and his family for $200 million: The text reads: This is not a true story — Nintendo did not sue a boy named Paco Gutierrez for making a cardboard console. This is a joke that appears to be mocking Nintendo's allegedly litigious nature. While many people sharing this story on social media noted that this sounded like something Nintendo would do, that does not mean it's actually true. The main picture in this story showing a cardboard Nintendo comes from a video that first went viral in 2018. That video showed a homemade game that was created by a child named Rubén (not Paco Gutierrez) in Venezuela. When this video first went viral, it was largely shared with complimentary remarks about Rubén's ingenuity. It wasn't until 2021, nearly three years after this video went viral, that this cardboard game was attached to a backstory about Paco being too poor to afford a Nintendo. It should also be noted that while we have not been able to source the image in the bottom left of this meme, it was not attached to the original cardboard Nintendo video. It seems that this photograph, like the fictional back story, was simply attached to this meme, and that it does not actually show the cardboard game's creator, Rubén.
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