Bowsette is a fan-created gender-swapped version of the Nintendo villain Bowser, born from a short comic strip by Twitter user ayyk92 in September 2018. The comic featured Bowser using the Super Crown power-up—originally introduced for Toadette in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe—to transform himself into a Peach-like doppelganger to make Mario jealous. The character immediately went viral, sparking a massive wave of fan art, cosplay, and global social media trends. Bowsette represents one of the most significant instances of fan-generated content dominating internet culture, eventually leading to various other 'ette' variants of Nintendo characters and cementing her place as a permanent icon in gaming meme history.