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Tool assisted speedrun. Basically a program that executes inputs with speed and precision humans cannot replicate. No human has ever actually beaten it, so it's an illegitimate level.
So I never played SMM, but was the idea that one had to beat their own level in order to prove it was beatable before they could upload it? And so using a TAS for that initial upload is cheating because nobody else will be able to beat it?
Important point of clarification, the level isn't truly impossible, a TAS proves it's theoretically winnable. Bombs5 by the same author turns out to also have been TAS, but was beaten anyway.
The issue is that if the author themself couldn't do it humanly, then the community doesn't consider it legitimate. It's disqualified, the author even came out and said Team 0% should be declared victorious.
That said, several players are still grinding it anyway. They've come too far to stop now, consider it the optional postgame superboss so we can get the True Ending. And I really hope it happens.
To be clear, only levels the author has beaten should have been uploaded to Mario Maker. That's the rule that was in place. The level was uploaded but the author never beat it, breaking the rule. That's why it was rejected for project 0%.