So... earlier today I received some of the nastiest DMs I have ever received from some people that were from #TeamFake.
I'm very vocal and passionate on Twitter about Smash, my tweets usually get close to 10 likes each and some replies.
I have seen some of the toxicity surrounding the leak, but it never really impacted me until I pulled up my DMs earlier this morning. I'm a supporter of #TeamReal, because the leak itself seems very accidental instead of purposefully spread for a reaction or followship.
Warning, the language in these is pretty outrageous to say the least.
This one was from someone I have never interacted with on Twitter, and they were able to successfully get all my personal information including phone numbers of my family, and my home address. I have already warned my parents about what's been going on. They were a bit scared at first, but I just had them block the numbers of those calling and saved them for later so we can make an appropriate report to law enforcement.
The next one came a bit later, again from someone I have never interacted with previously.
I'm trying to maintain my cool here but, guys, this is getting ridiculous. I never would have expected this from #TeamFake let alone the smash community itself. I may have to leave the community because of how toxic it has become. I really don't want to but it's really starting to get to me. I haven't had the greatest month, I already had to say goodbye to a few games that shut down their servers this month, and now this. I really don't know what to do and I just want the threats to stop.