Can we just ignore the flame and go back to character speculation? This is the only thing I'll say about all what's happening. I don't want this thread nor the Geno thread to be locked, so please stop.
Don't quote/reply to this part of the post, I don't want to continue this discussion.
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I was thinking... do you remember that Japanese guy who "leaked" that female character from a fighting game with a "flying weapon"?
I'm thinking that maybe it was a legit leak... I'll explain.
Probably a friend of that person is really an insider, and knew that the next fighter was going to be Terry.
That person probably told the name of the character and a small description to the "leaker", and that person had no idea of who the character was.
Terry is both a male and female name, so maybe he was told "Terry from Fatal Fury, a fighting game", and he revealed it on twitter.
When he got all the attention, he came up with the "flying weapon" thing and all those lies to make it look like a fake leak, probably to protect his friend from being found and fired.
Just a theory... I said this because I once was told by "a friend of a friend" (but I also know that person even if I rarely see it) who works for a toy company, what the next line of collectable figures of a famous series (I don't want to say the name, though it was nothing directly related to Smash nor Nintendo) were about, before any official announcement.
I could have leaked it, even if I have 0 interest in that series and I don't know much about them aside that they exist; but I didn't in respect to that person, because I know the risks.
It was an identical situation to my theory about the "female character" leak with the exception that I didn't leak it; so it's totally possible IMO.
Not saying that it was 100% legit, but I think there is a chance that part of it was real.