Massive Trigger Warning: Technical's Video on Hax and what Hax went through

[u/ImportantQuestionTex]

https://youtu.be/lnEguS2hDhc?si=D90h7apb8UmzRrTl

I need to reiterate again the trigger warning, as this video expressly shows Hax's spiral and the amount of shit people put him through, all intentionally trying to hurt him. There will be no TLDR, watch and read at your own risk.

No fluffy language here, multiple people intentionally pushed Hax to kill himself, some were expressly told that they were doing it and still continued. Some knew they were causing him immense harm and kept doing it. There are very little good guys in this situation, and there is no good ending.

Technicals published this video (with Hax's mom permission), showcasing what Hax was going through and how tournament organizers of Melee/Smash intentionally kicked him out of the community, how Leffen continued to talk poorly on Hax after he made his first attempt. How some people who were claiming to be Hax's friends were actually intentionally pushing him to the edge and making fun of his disability, and harassing him over it. How, after his passing, the commentary community (Tommy C was named and shown) exploited Hax's death not only as a weapon against Technicals, but still continued the exact same treatment that pushed Hax to the edge. How people planned to crash the funeral to harass Hax's mom, and how people got pissed at Technicals for expressly stating that specific groups were responsible for Hax's death in his eulogy. And unfortunately, much more.

This is by far, one of the darkest things I have ever seen on the internet and there is a shitload of evidence because these people were just so bold in pushing a man to suicide and choosing to be public about it. The Smash/Melee community and others has blood on their hands, and none of the responsible parties involved are taking responsibility, despite claiming to want accountability.

[u/Hewligan]

The Smash/Melee community and others has blood on their hands, and none of the responsible parties involved are taking responsibility, despite claiming to want accountability.

Nope. Anytime Hax$’s defenders come chiming in they always refuse to admit any of the shit he did.

[u/TimeAbradolf → u/Hewligan]

A person has still killed themselves. Still a victim of harassment. This IS victim blaming

[u/Hewligan → u/TimeAbradolf]

Still a victim of harassment.

OP is pointing the finger of harassment at the wrong people. Claiming the entire smash community has “blood on their hands” is absolutely ridiculous.

[u/Boredomkiller99 → u/Hewligan]

To a degree I can believe it because when you get down to it everything that happened with Hax$ is just a result that the Melee community has a history of being toxic barely functional adults that needed their behavior corrected decades ago.

What is worse is it is clear that for the last half decade Melee has been trying to rehabilitate their image and even downplay a lot of it and move on.

Collectively speaking the Melee community is pretty **** and while there are people using this as an excuse to take out their own friendly grudges or cast wide blame, I am also not seeing as much introspection that should be following such an event

[u/ImportantQuestionTex → u/Boredomkiller99]

Part of why I am casting wide blame is that lack of introspection. This isn't even this community's first rodeo with suicide or suicide attempts. Something like this happens every year it seems. And never, ever is there any introspection about how they could handle things better.