Did you believe? Be honest.
I remember when this was first posted on /v/, i chuckled and went to sleep and of course, next morning everyone had fallen for this garbage
No, it was always fucking dumb. The majority of the characters were meme picks and popular fan request people have been circle jerking over since brawl. Come on now.
I hoped it was real but doubted it since they said they were cutting back on new characters
I was skeptical because of the chorus kids, felt like something to bait people who still believed the old gematsu rumor
No. But like 90% of the board believed stupidest shit i ever saw in my life
It had geno in it, that should've told you it was bullshit if you thought it was real.
>>736641759nobody is going to admit that they did, but they did.
no. but that's because I was a steve poster blinded by fanaticism. which meant i got shit on in the threads until grinch was debunked. though it made the catharsis of steve getting revealed orgasmic.
we can't have this now because of ai
>>736641759No. Who the fuck are the "chorus kids" and who cares? Only chronically online smashfags. They never had a chance of being in
>>736642562Do you have the original with sound? I remember it being the funniest OC I'd ever seen on /v/
>>736642582Rhythm Heaven dudes. One of the more known segments of the series probably (besides wrestler interview)That said I usually have a pretty good gut feeling over leaks so I did not believe this shit.
>>736642672I lost most of my steve folder, but here's a quick 'tube spoonfeed on the househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffcPaeA6eE
As an Incineroarfag since day one, no. You can imagine the smile on my face come November 1st.
>>736641759At first no but it then had a fuckton of coincidences pushing for it in the following weeks like the official website changing banners to start featuring areas that fit the leak, new screenshots showing things like an item that looked exactly like the growth psynergy and so on. When the leak with Ken/Incineroar started surfacing, I was sure that one would be true because it sounded extremely disappointing and true it ended up being.
>>736642562Steve's evolution was so damn funny>Everybody takes a fat shit on him once Banjoke actually makes it>Despite this he still makes it in>Is one of the best characters in the game as the cherry on top
>>736642827The original Stevefag is the most vindicated /v/ user ever
>>736642752>party rock posting was over 7 years ago
>>736641759Everyone who looked into it was fooled, because he'd done a lot of prep work to make it believable. I remember the "promotional material" was tracked to a game store which could conceivably have access to it for posters and such. I guess the leaker worked at the store and printed the stuff there even though the leak was fake.Of course, most of the "leaked" characters made it in anyway.
>>736642775Good times>>736642562I dont care about Steve but Vergeben was right the whole time up until then so I was telling everyone that Steve had to be in cause he said it, I remember all the retarded copes people were coming up with >he saw a sticker or some shit from fucking cubivore and thought it was Minecraft, Steve is NEVER happeningBy the time Steve actually came though no one really cared anymore myself included so I did t get to gloat like when grinch nonsense got debunked
>>736641759It was just a matter of a different Earth. The Grinch was right in the long run.
>>736642534lmao, they should at least have the decency of being hones
>>736643650They probably are? The second has half as many votes, and we can't know for sure if all the no votes in the first poll also voted in the second.
>>736641759No, and if you did you are retarded>Mashpotato Sakurai: anyway, there won't be many more fighters so please set your expectations accordingly>Some fucking stupid nigger: NOOOOOO HE'S LYING TO US MACH RIDERS IS IN
why was it called grinch leak anyways? i didn't follow because i don't care for smash but i always found that weird
>>736644735bottom right image
>>736642534This literally what's happening in this thread. I'll be honest (UNLIKE EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD) and admit that I believed it. I thought the characters were weird, sure, but I said "gee that must be rela it looks real."
>>736641759of course i did
>>736641759Yes because I was a dumb teenager in high school. Crazy to think this all happened almost 8 years ago, it feels like it was yesterday.
>>736644685this is exactly what I said but people want to believe sakurai is le epic ruseman or some shit
I believed until some guy on Smashboards pointed out that Greninja's tongue was a different length.Or something like that, it's been so long I can't quite remember what it was.
Not sure how anybody believed this, since it was after the collectors edition box leak that confirmed the number of characters
Wasn't the guy who claimed to be responsible for this fiasco the same as the Leaffag that pretended to be schizophrenic for approximately 5 years?
>>736641759My Sonic autism told me Shadow looked too much like a 3D render instead of the stylized art Sonic and the rest of the cast has. idk. If it didn't have it I would have been like everyone else here though. Especially after alpharad made that video saying the Chad-ondorf post here was related to this.
>>736641759To be frank Mach Rider felt like a very Sakurai pick.
>It turns out nobody ever believed the grinch leakCome on guys, we’re anonymous just admit you ate it up
>>736641759no. i never conceded.>>736642967no one will believe me buti'm the anon who made the pasta, spammed it (and the variants i adapted for each reveal/leak) for 2 years, and somehow got the sticky on reveal dayi burned through so many IPs and got several areas range banned, but it was worth it.funny thing is, i was still playing Brawl at the time. i didn't even own a Switch until Steve was revealed, at which point i bought one in celebration of my fellow SteveCHADS' victory.
>>736645821>My Sonic autism told me Shadow looked too much like a 3D render instead of the stylized art SonicThat is the exact response I had to it.
>>736641759I did at first, but the cloud inconsisties made me realize it was fake. Basically, different parts of the background were been visible/hidden as they added characters to the portrait, and the leaker didn't do their due diligence and made up the clouds for what was currently hidden instead of looking at older versions of the picture pulling from that instead
>>736645951Grotesque Steve is one of the most disgusting things I've seen, I don't care if you didn't made it. I wish that I could post this gif 50 times
>>736641759yesi think the guy posted a Grinch image that wasn’t seen anywhere else
No, they added way too many new characters for it to be believable
>>736642775>>736643498What a fun time.
>>736641759At first yeah. Then a video broke down the background compared to a later presentation's version that showed incorrect edits where characters previously covered them and realized it was likely bullshit. The DLC more than made up for Kencineroar Plant though, thankfully.
>>736641759I'll be honest, i fell for it.The unreleased grinch promos along with the characters being part of the mural in a realistic way really added to the credibility. The choices were pretty dumb, but nintendo adds a lot of weird ass characters like wii fit and G&WIt was genuinely a really well done troll
>>736641759yeah the diaper beam grinch incident
No. I wrote autistic, long posts at the time explaining that they weren't going to reveal 7 fucking characters in the final direct given the pace of reveals they'd been doing and that the "this couldn't be faked!" argument was retarded because of course it could be faked, it was just a single photo and everything else was circumstantial stuff that people made up to convince themselves. But basically everyone here believed it anyway and now of course pretends they didn't.
>>736645169>8 years ago
>>736641759I didn't believe it because it contained the same dogshit retarded character picks that people used to beg for constantly
>>736641759yeah, for a bit I did. most people did. but they won't admit to it cause they feel embarrassed. it was well done. and back then there was no AI, so you had to actually put work into fake leaks like this. fakes of this quality were rare.
>>736649804And in the end Ultimate ended up having the lowest number of new characters on release, by far
>>736647143>now all i need is this irrelevant bird that would just be some sort of annoying zoner with multiple jumps, THEN Ultimate will truly be ULTIMATE!Rosterfags are so weird
>>736645951Based
>>736641759Is there a single fake leak that comes close to this one, before or after? IMO it’s one of the greatest trolls of all time.
>>736650893Not necessarily a leak, but the Splatoon Island trailer someone made for april fools is another infuriating "god I wish it was real" prank
>>736641759Yes. There's nothing to gain by denying it now. Hoax culture is the best shit to be a part of whether it's obvious or not. I'm bummed out that because of this and the Rayman spoof back on the WiiU everyone will be extremely skeptical of any kind of hoax like this again.The Steveposting was the most obnoxious but funniest shit at the time and I can't think of any character or specific model for a character that has sparked as much conflicting opinion on this board to this day. Made even funnier that his inclusion fucking killed the game overnight.It was such a fun ride and I miss it.
This thing proved that retarded redditors will hype up the dumbest characters no one cares about just for the sake of bandwagonning on the "hype train"
>>736641759no because I'm not a retarded genofag
>>736651764They are one of the most notable Rhythm Heaven characters. They got top billing in the marketing of the DS game (nintendo did live stages with audience interaction to do the chorus segment) and are even on the box art.
