No, he actually already assumed that smashers were hyperactive highschool students or college undergraduates.
Kinda like we assume people on SRK are total douchebags. Which they kinda are. Like, there are stickies in the threads that basically warn new people that people are going to be mean to them when they ask dumb questions, as in questions that the people ahve answers to, since they appear stupid.
But, once you get past that, just like you get past our huge *** page long rules to their
rules (full rules to EVO, all games, very short, like 5 bullets long per game), or how we spam memes like *****es (really, I didn't even notice it until Fazha and CC were watching Kaelen, I, Cyrus P and James play melee), and are generally younger than other people in the fighting game audience.
You know controller mods are completely legit in the other communities? It's amazing how different they are.