Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl dev asks people to stop calling it a “Smash Killer”
Bats vs. Bugs vs. Shaggy vs. Taz vs. Arya vs. Harley in wild MultiVersus trailer – Destructoid
Character designer and programmer Thaddeus Crews took to Twitter to share the following statement:
“Some videos/comments/etc are doing the “Smash killer” shtick again…I’d really rather you not…I’d really, REALLY prefer any other joke or punching bag or whatever that doesn’t have the kind of proven track-record of instigating conflict as a result of this branding. I can’t stop anyone from making those jokes & I’m not personally bothered by them. It’s clearly all in good fun by the overwhelming majority of people & is “clickbaity” to a absurd degree; I get that, and in a vacuum it’s absolutely hilarious…But ramifications aren’t in a vacuum. There’s no real way to not come off as a buzzkill in addressing this, but the image this kind of message creates has been so thoroughly harmful to a degree that I can’t just sit back and watch it happen again…I strongly encourage finding hyperbolic absurdist statements elsewhere.”
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