Nintendo has firmly denied that the joke in Paper Mario: Color Splash is about anything other than Watergate.

Nintendo has issued a statement following what it calls the misinterpretation of one of its jokes in Paper Mario: Color Splash. Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn tweeted two screenshots of the game, taken from a YouTube video, which she thought were references to the GamerGate controversy, writing "what the fuck did I ever do to you, Nintendo, that y'all had to make my suffering into a fucking joke."

what the fuck did I ever do to you, Nintendo, that y'all had to make my suffering into a fucking joke pic.twitter.com/8It2z8X7bH— teÃ«nage shirtbag (@UnburntWitch) June 22, 2016

Several people were quick to point out that the two screenshots, when viewed on the video, were actually separated by a substantial period of time, and that much of the context was removed due to the way the images were presented. Some argued that it was a reference to the Watergate controversy, while others voiced their intentions to boycott Nintendo over the perceived GamerGate link, thinking the content was too specific to be a coincidence. Nintendo firmly denied that it was in reference to anything other than Watergate in a statement provided to Eurogamer, which you can read in full below: