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The Super Smash Brothers community is notorious for taking things too personally. Recently on the community forums, the topic of discussion and debate with a capital letter – X, was at least a “strange” event that happened at a Super Smash Brothers event called Genesis 9.
Genesis 9 is one of the biggest Super Smash Brothers events and one of the most popular fighting games among fans of the series. The main point of conversation was an incident between a Kotaku journalist and a player named Riddles (widely known, a pro. player among many in the community) who was expected to reach the Top 8 by the finals. However, this did not happen, Riddles lost to the French player Leon and a little later threw his controller to the ground in grief and despair, never reaching his goal.
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Some people have come to the conclusion that Riddles as Kazuya shouldn’t have reacted this way, as Kazuya is one of the easiest characters to defeat due to his “0-to-death” combo which allows him to kill opponents relatively quickly. Although there were those who stood up for the player, explaining this by the human factor, and a normal reaction.
It would seem that this is all, however, Kotaku published an article in which it decided to cover both sides of the conflict, where it made a number of factual errors. In the final conclusion, the author of the article considered that it is normal for Riddles to show his emotions, as long as he does not take them out on his opponent. Naturally, the player did not like this, and the article added fuel to the fire.
The author of the article himself mentioned that he could not get a comment from the player, since he did not answer anything. However, Riddles tweeted the following night, containing questions he ignored from the journalist:
Questions from a Kotaku journalist seemed to many to be pointless and potentially hostile. Some questions like: “Why did you leave your controller?”, “What did you feel at that moment?” and “Did you expect Leon to lose?” seemed pretty obvious, but a question like, “Do you have any idea why people don’t like you?” was taken as a strange attempt to get Riddles to say something hot-tempered … And he answered.
The reaction from the community was not long in coming, and Kotaku’s response was flooded with tweets. Users condemn the behavior of the journalist, many believe that the questions were not relevant and logically justified. One of the people left a tweet
“This is aggressive bad journalism, controversy questions are extremely unprofessional, and questions should not be required to agree in an interview.”
