No, not the point.
Ill break it down for you. If fake, here's what the leaker has accomplished miraculously:
Art:
1. Successfully recreated the background of the banner to various degrees of success (this would be his one problem)
2. Moved and shifted nearly 40 characters on the banner (a photoshopper knows this is a lot of work)
3. Moving said characters required like 50% of them to receive additional art (Jigglypuff, Roy, Greninja and more have body parts hidden behind other characters, and moving them causes those parts to be revealed.) If fake, the leaker has drawn all the additional art needed.
4. Create 7 handcrafted renders for 7 new characters, all of which have no reputable source for inspiration (in fact, a troll tried disproving Chorus Kids render by making a fake one themselves, similar to Duck Hunt in Smash 4). After nearly 36 hours, NOBODY has found existing renders. All of them are original.
5. Of the 7, Isaac is using psyenergy people normally do not associate him with, and The Conductor is the central character in the chorus kids render, something most people wouldn't do.
6. Caused the Smashified team to claim the Banjo render as theirs, only to get hopelessly shut down and memed.
7. All 7 new renders fit in with the art style and from what we can see and people BELIEVE IT.
Background of the leaker:
1. The leak was made to look unintentional through Snapchat. Sends it to a friend or friends. Said friends leak it. Weird but okay, not posted directly on 4chan or another leak site. Basically they leaked it with the apparent plot twist of acting like they didn't want to leak it. Amazing.
2. The leaker created images with all of the above 7 points I made in the art section, only to print it out using Autocad, cardboard paper provided by his job, complete with fold out instructions of how to display it. On top of this, the leaker makes sure to take an image from really far of his good ****ing artwork, all to doop people into thinking it's a cardboard advert.
3. Said leaker plans and attaches Grinch artwork from the office to further solidify his leak. He thinks "if they find out my background, they'll surely see that job also makes these!" Amazing.
4. Said leaker scrubs out a receipt with his name or the name of his co-worker poorly! On purpose! Because he knows the internet will try and find the name! That said name will lead them to his LinkedIn page that connects him to his job. This plan was made YEARS in advance to carefully accomplish his goal of fooling people he has a legit leak at his job. Amazing.
5. Said leaker knew people would get this far, but said leaker apparently didn't think about the consequences of him getting arrested or dragging his or his colleagues name through the mud to find more work. Totally plausible.
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See where I'm going with this? It is 9000x harder for me to see it being fake, than to actually believe it's real. I cannot, for the life of me, logically see how someone can manage to do ALL of this, without a major inconsistency ****ing it up. And so far, it hasn't.
Gonna answer each point one by one. Ok:
1 and 2: Yeah, it IS a lot of work, but I do not know what makes this out of the realm of being a fake. If it was a lot of PROFESSIONALLY WELL DONE WORK, then I'd be all over it. But we literally can't see it. It's just a whole lot of blur, which is the easiest way to mask any mistakes or any not-in-style art. That's the main reason why I don't think this is even comparable to the ESRB leak (which had way more screenshots and info than this btw)
3: Funny you say Jigglypuff because she looks atrocious on the leak. The other ones can be successfully (but not very well done) redrawn using photoshop. Healing brush, clone stamp tool, stuff like that are used a whole lot. But it's also clear that if this IS a fake leak, that the guy has good artistic skills.
4: Those are not renders, but rather illustrations and it's impossible to be certain of their quality at this point because a whole lot of them are just a confusing mesh of colors.
5: "Most people wouldn't do" is also not the basis for anything. Does it make it stronger? Yeah, it does, but there's nothing in it that makes me say "Wow!!! Only Nintendo would think of that!!" since one of Isaac's most proeminent class in the game uses the thorn spell as an attack (which is, btw, earth magic) and the Conductor being central to the Chorus Kids is not far off either, seeing as he's present on their trophy present in Smash 4.
6: I don't really care about that, it's their problem
7: You must have an exceptionally good vision, much akin that of an eagle, because for me it's literally impossible to tell if they're in style or not. I also think Banjo looks very off-model, but, again, I can't tell at all because of how tiny it is.
1: That's the exact same circustances behind the ESRB leak. It wasn't through snapchat, but it was through a messaging program and leaked by someone else. I don't think the circumstances make it more or less belieavble, it could be made to look unintenional while still being (and that's not hard to do or come up with at all)
2: Uh... can you point to me this cardboard paper thing? Because it's not there that's for sure. And of course a fake leaker would take a really far away picture, why do you think 99% of fake leaks are blurry lol.
3: I think the Grinch thing was there for the exact purpose of this point. But I'll go a step further: The Grinch thing may have to do with his actual job, while the Smash thing doesn't. (Though none of the Grinch renders are new either)
4: That may have been an actual mistake, but I'm not putting it past this guy searching up someone on an advertising company that worked for Bamco and using one unlucky guy he found on LinkedIn for this (Even more when said guy has no relations to Bamco presently anymore, which means that, if there's a fake leaker, he probably made a mistake and only looked up the guy on a surface level)
5: You do know... that a lot of people don't care right? The guy who spread the ESRB leak did not care if his acquaintance was going to be fired. This might give more credibility to this seeing as the circumstances are very similar (guy was found because of the monitor brand he used, which is exclusive to Brazil), but the empathy card means nothing to these people, since it works against the leak being real too because it assumes his friend did not care either.
The thing isn't that there isn't a major inconsistency. I actually think there are a lot of them, but beyond that, a lot of things just don't add up or are merely conjectures being passed as facts.
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to reliably bring us information. Like I said, no disrespect to him, but his sources could definitely be lying to him in an attempt to drum up more attention for this leak.
