Some of that is just lame retconning when they decided to make games worse than super mario world.

I never got that reasoning though, super mario world was an amazing game and it was like after that game all they wanted was to do stuff that wasn't anything like super mario world.

I guess I get the turtle thing where he means he is kinda a de-facto turtle since that is a shell on its back, but that is also stupid regardless. Especially when you consider actually quite a few animals had shells on its back not just turtles. If anything it just shows his ignorance. Wait, and don't some I don't know... DINOSAURS have shells on their back too? That doesn't make them a turtle. Honestly though I bet that is just a stupid statement by someone who thinks they are being clever but actually makes them look dumb. Seriously some people I swear get off on "correcting" people in the stupidest ways. "WELL ACTUALLY......" and then bring up some BS nonsense.

But like other people said, it is a lame tactic to just proclaim things after the fact that were never given any reason to be the case. Often for political reasons or to be like "lol I told you so stupid fans how dare you know things the normies don't" or something like that. Like the toadette thing I figure that one has to be purely just stupid political retconning. What is next all coopas are genderless too and Wendy Koopa was secretly just a transvestite? Actually I may believe Wendy was a transvestite, as it kinda looks like a lot of them :P