-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Smash Player ZeRo accused of Harassment by Jisu and sending sexual messages to Katie when she was 14 years old [Up: ZeRo Attempts Suicide]
- Thread starter WildEagle18
- Start date
User banned (1 month): inappropriate off-topic trolling in a sensitive thread
Shouldn't have tried to force a baby game into a competitive fighter, could have avoided all this.
Ya know if all Katie wants is a genuine apology for what happened... Zero got off lucky. This is a situation where nobody's calling for the end of Zero's career and all they want is just a genuine acknowledgement that he himself messed up. I'm personally all for people growing as individuals but the fact that he won't apologize really makes me question if he's truly grown from that time period
Also it's bizarre as hell to me that the one smash player I hate reading about is managing to be the most level headed and respectful individual in this whole shitshow. Good job, Leffen.
Also it's bizarre as hell to me that the one smash player I hate reading about is managing to be the most level headed and respectful individual in this whole shitshow. Good job, Leffen.
I wonder how Nintendo and Sakurai feel, especially considering some higher ups and Sakurai have gone to the E3 Smash tourneys and likely met a few of these people. :/ This is so disturbing...I can't even imagine...
Jesus.
Jesus.
This is terrible. In some of these stories, people mention a "sky house". What's that? I tried to google it, but found no answer. was it a real house where some smash players lived all together?
dude no
if he did this shit then he should be done. full stop.
They'll just ignore the competitive community more now then they did in the past, they now have a good reason to not be involved in any of this. Any hope for Nintendo to support the smash community has been thrown out the window.
Unfortunately. It's clear a tiny amount of people don't care about the actual issues and just want to insult a particular game they're not fond of. Which is awfully disgusting
Hence why I say lucky because sexual assault of a 15 year old is indeed a horrible fucking thing and in all cases would deserve to destroy someone's career.
What a wonderful takeaway from all this. Top tier insight.
A friend told me that he was harassing some kids some time ago, but he hasnt showed me proof, and he also REALLY hates Leffen so I dont know if I could trust him
It's crazy that for years guys like Hbox, leffen, and Salem have been viewed as the bad guys of smash when all this shit was going down. Only thing leffen is guilty of is trash talking
And it should here. What satisfies the victim and what is a reasonable punishment are not always the same thing.
Evo Online Canceled Following Allegations Against Former CEO - IGN
Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat 11 will no longer be a part of Evo 2020 after misconduct allegations brought up against Evo organizer.
Just saw they updated their article with a response/statement from Nintendo.
Just report and move on. Don't give it any more attention than that.
Are you really gonna turn this into a Melee vs. other Smash games thing?
Depends on what kind of harassing. Leffen used to be a huge shithead and everyone hated him. He's still not really a nice person, but he seems decent enough now.
Yeah it's not like the grown up fighting games don't have their current problems going on. With the head Evo guy being a pedophile and admitting to it.
Yes it has. Don't start this. Westballz has been accused of multiple things in the past twelve hours including trying to go on dates with minors, groping Mang0's wife, etc. This is a disgusting fucking thing to say. Don't make it a game vs. game thing.
Also, what fucking game did D1 start on? Every single game has people who need to be outed and exposed.
OP
OP
Its a house own by a smash player Sky. Sky was an influential figurehead in both the Smash 4 and Utlimate community. He also had the benefit of having a nice house that is close to many regionals. So he would often host parties or allow competitors to stay at his house.
Fucking really ? Gonna make this kind of post when we're talking about accusations of sexual abuse and pedophilia ? Get a fucking grip.
I'm going to guess that they're talking about YouTuber Sky Williams who threw parties and shit at his house.
I would think they only move if they are instructed to by child protection services ... so if nobody contact them, nothing is done (hope i am wrong , but resources are limited).
That makes sense. So that's why there are so many people that knew about this stuff. It makes it so much disgusting.
If Nintendo is smart they will go beyond condemning these individuals and explicitly separate themselves from any of these competitive scenes and actively urge their customers to stay away. Their brand can't afford to be tied in with a pedophile den. They can't stop their games from being played competitively (right?), but they can issue warnings to protect their underage customers.
Leffen's only really guilty of being kind of a dick amd taking trash talking waaaaay too far, but that was ages ago and he's grown a lot since then.
Nintendo was already separate from the competitive community to a degree that many competitive players considered a fault. All of these events are just proving that Nintendo was right to never get that involved.
This is just wrong btw. Melee players SleepyK, DJ Nintendo, & The Moon have all been implicated, new info came out about MacD, and stories about Westballz and others appear to be coming up later today. While there are bound to be less stories in general about the Melee community, as it is smaller and trends significantly older, there are still plenty of examples of misconduct.
Teens go to stuff like concerts on their own all the time, come on now... I know you don't intend to deflect but this detail is really beside the point.
As someone who has younger siblings, those messages are textbook Parent nightmare.
Fuck Zero and we really, really need to have a dedicated thread about rape culture. The fact that Smash community is experiencing this is more telling of a systemic problem than Smash specifically attracting predators.
Fuck Zero and we really, really need to have a dedicated thread about rape culture. The fact that Smash community is experiencing this is more telling of a systemic problem than Smash specifically attracting predators.
D1 was a prominent member of the Melee community, and DJ Nintendo, The Moon, and Westballz have had allegations made against them just recently.
The whole Smash community is toxic as hell.
Right, I just mean they should go beyond ignoring them to actually warning their customers. Parents need to know that their children are at risk of being groomed and raped at these events. It's what I would do if I were in their shoes, and I say that as someone high up at a large company. I don't say that to brag, just to show that I'm professionally in a place where I would be making that kind of decision and not just some guy sounding off without knowing what he's talking about.
i don't think it's necessarily the case that there are fewer abusers. There's just a lot of info coming out now. There is absolutely a lot centered around the 2015-2018 Smash 4 scene right now, which may have just been bigger or trended younger, but I doubt we don't see allegations come out in other fighting games sooner than later
They even had Zero and Mkleo to play an invitational.
If Nintendo wasn't supporting the fighting scene enough before, imagine now.
