 Happy holidays! It's time for another entry in the video game storytime advent calendar. Beloved gaming icon Kirby is notable for being an odd pink balloon with a face. Is he a giant blob of disgusting pink flesh? Or is he simply made of thick pink rubber, like an exercise ball or a stress toy? This we will never know, but we do know why he's a blob. Said Masahiro Sakurai, I needed a dummy character to represent what the real character would be doing in the game. I just put a Kirby shaped blob in my presentation as a placeholder, but everyone liked it so much we decided to keep it in the game without any major changes. So that's the answer. Kirby is a disgusting blob of flesh, or whatever you choose to imagine, because Masahiro Sakurai put a placeholder image in his game and slowly grew to love it. Join us tomorrow for another video, and if you gave us a dislike for saying that Kirby is disgusting, well, fair enough, we deserve that.