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'''Super Mario 64 Big Star Secret''' is a partially-lost [[YouTube]] [[screamer]] video based on the "secret" from ''[[wikipedia:Super Mario 64|Super Mario 64]]''. The video was first uploaded to YouTube by Adam "LotusMan17" Bounds on August 15th, 2007, and was then deleted from the channel in late 2012. Aside from being just a Mario screamer, this is a lost screamer that anyone still searches for. Yet, even the people from Lost Media Wiki started hunting for the screamer from websites, which only lasted a year. A poorly-made screamer about unlocking Luigi was enough to provoke a huge amount of search from everyone with information coming in hand recently. The video had amassed around 900,000 views at its peak.<ref name="LMWDiscord">[https://screamer.wiki/images/1/1c/LMWDiscord12.png LMW Discord #1]</ref>

The video itself, of course, has to do with unlocking [[wikipedia:Luigi|Luigi]], and it begins with a handful of steps on how to do so; all of this was impressively made with [[wikipedia:Windows Movie Maker|Windows Movie Maker 2]].<ref name="LMWDiscord" /> At first, the steps are shown on a black screen, before Lotus begins doing what the steps say at the beginning. One of the instructions includes running around the [https://www.mariowiki.com/Courtyard_(Peach%27s_Castle) courtyard statue]<ref group="note">The courtyard statue is referred to by the screamer as the "big star" and the "big star secret" would mean to the urban legend known as L is real 2406.</ref> for a certain amount of time. After the part where Lotus tells the player to kick the Boo, they are then told to press "A" on the wall<ref>https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/1191/t1145970-rumors/4.htm</ref> as being the final step. As the player is about to do so, the [[K-fee]] zombie would then appears on the screen, suddenly interrupting the video. However, it is rumoured that if one can see far enough, Lotus can be seen going against the wall before the actual [[screamer]], but this rumour has not yet been confirmed. The video shortly ended with the credits appearing from the top. The video used to have three different pieces of music, including the gameplay and the credits, but it was muted due to copyright issues. 

On September 8, 2015, a Screamer Wiki user named [[User:SCL|SCL]] (also known as Socoollogos on FANDOM) posted his concern about the screamer on a thread in the Screamer Forum. One user also discovered the screamer as SCL was concerned about. He tried finding the screamer through the [[Wayback Machine]], but only to find that no archives of the video had been made yet. The user also mentioned that an annotation popped up during the video, where Lotus said he would remove the video because he was receiving hate. The reply had a different link to a reaction video, but it was private.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20190822024248/https://screamer.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:4199</ref> However, there are many posts about this screamer besides this thread. A YouTuber Mahlv also uploaded his concerns about the lost Mario 64 screamer to [[YouTube]] on August 2020. Another documentary was then shortly followed at a later date, where he talks about the screamer being hunted by the Lost Media Wiki and other information.

There are no copies of the video that could possibly be found, which is pretty obvious. The only thing that one could find in searching for the update description and its thumbnail. The updated description says, "''The video was done out of complete boredom, and yet people still wish to leave hateful comments. Therefore, commenting has been disabled.''" So this could be the truth behind why Lotus deleted the video: because of how many death threats and hate comments he had received, rather than saying it was accidental. The thumbnail and updated description are more likely found on its Facebook page, which was created in late 2011.<ref><s>[https://bit.ly/3msR5q6 SM64 screamer Facebook page]</s></ref>

SM64_thumbnail.png|The (zoomed-in) thumbnail of the screamer.

SM64_Poster_Old.png|The old poster for the screamer.

SM64_Poster.png|The updated poster for the screamer, with even more recent information. These are made to promote the hunt.

SM64_Poster_Spanish.png|¿Pides la versión en español?

SM64_Facebook_Page.png|The updated description and the thumbnail were rediscovered through a Facebook page.