Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31549837-20200115185054/@comment-38782542-20200122040422

KirbyPKMNInkling wrote: Can I say something? I do it all the time, but admitably, I'm fucking tired of Smash speculation. It's just become people yelling at each other over who's next, each time people becoming louder and louder where it's just so hard to take. Especially with the rise of the Internet, from Brawl to Smash 4 to Ultimate things have gotten more rampant as people want more and more characters in Smash. Waste of breath to get your mind out there anymore.

Leaks are even worse. Fake leaks just piggyback onto each other and people take their bait as facts. Look at KOS-MOS, nobody thought she had a chance until her leak, and people are still blindly convinced she's Fighter 6 despite clear evidence saying she won't be. Look at half of these characters, Steve, Doom Slayer, Ryu Hayabusa, it's all just leak bait now. And when a leak is true, well, it just ruins the surprise. That's part of the reason WHY I loved Byleth's reveal. No one, and I mean NO ONE, leaked it or saw it coming. We all joked about an 8th Fire Emblem character, but no one downright said it WAS Byleth. Everyone was busy riding off the coattails of Dante, even after he was deconfirmed before the presentation.

Tldr, Smash Speculation is stupid. I think the community deserved an extremely disappointing reveal like this, they were so fucking entitled