This really is Grinch 2. The leakers could come out with a fully HD video showing off the mod and the models and some yall would claim that the people who made the video were copycats who made a mod based on the leak and ported it into Smash. I'm not saying anyone needs to believe them but when every piece of evidence is met with "but what about ____" even to the point of being irrational the leak will never be proven or disproven.
And yeah when they're enjoying people being fooled by their leak their not gonna provide "proof." Especially when they aren't actively claiming to the community that they made it rather just happened to have admitted it within the presence of someone who screenshotted it.
Let me just dissect this because there's a lot of baggage in this post and it's pretty hostile.
This is nowhere near Grinch levels. That was a Psyops campaign that rivaled Parkourdude (Don't google it, if you don't know then you don't want to know.)
Somebody set up an elaborate system of levers and pulleys to fool people because nobody honestly thought they'd be that insane to go through all that trouble. Well, lots of people were wrong.
This? This is a few videos on 4chan and a picture. We have a video to dissect. That's it.
The leakers could come out with a fully HD video showing off the mod and the models and some yall would claim that the people who made the video were copycats who made a mod based on the leak and ported it into Smash.
1) Plenty of people are saying that if they came out and showed in depth videos they'd believe them.
2) The reason we're casting doubt on this is because the time is ticking and there are just as many people who want to take credit for this being a fake as there were who wanted to be fake insiders back in the Smash 4 days. The more time that passes, the easier it becomes for people to reverse engineer those models and post replicas claiming to have made them. People are already trying that, and we keep finding that they're shallow copies.
3) Porting it into Smash is the entire crux of this argument. Anybody can make a model. Blender is free. The Cacodemon and Mallow are simple shapes, the former having a full 360 degrees of reference material and the later being a damn puffball. The issue so far is porting them into Smash as hats and not helmets, which people claim is easy but have yet to show any examples. The moment they do is the moment I buy the argument.
I'm not saying anyone needs to believe them
You literally are.
but when every piece of evidence is met with "but what about ____" even to the point of being irrational the leak will never be proven or disproven.
What the hell does this even mean? Who is using whataboutisms? We're asking for examples of modded hats and nobody is stepping up to bat. Show us application of the theory and you blast holes through Team Real's big argument.
And yeah when they're enjoying people being fooled by their leak their not gonna provide "proof." Especially when they aren't actively claiming to the community that they made it rather just happened to have admitted it within the presence of someone who screenshotted it.
What makes them credible? You have yet to answer this. "Because they would find it funny" is not an excuse for not proving your claim. If I try to claim a wallet that isn't mine from the lost and found, should I be allowed to have it because "well it very well could be mine!" No, because I would be a liar. My ID isn't in it, I can't identify the picture of the kid that's there, but you're asking us to give that wallet to them because the fact that they are liars means they're trustworthy sources in this instance?
This is a nonsensical stance to take, and there's no proof that they're not just a bunch of misanthropes trying to feel relevant and powerful on the internet for fifteen minutes. We're not dumb for disbelieving them right off the bat.
