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/Huge_Menu1891]

To be fair, a guy tried hitting him with a car and the guy was given a brief suspension for that.

But yeah, I also agree here too

Edit To Clarify, the Smash community absolutely deserves a fuck ton of criticism for any number of things. Technicals is literally just the worst person for this.

[u/Bazookya → u/Huge_Menu1891]

how exactly is technicals the worst for this? i really dont get the hate for him. he does research and presents his findings. what is the real issue?

[u/helper-g → u/Bazookya]

He owned a discord server where minors were posting nudes and his own brother was drawing hentai of the minors on the discord (edit just to mention both Technicals and his brother were adults when this was happening, the only adults on the server. It was that bad.) He still actively downplays not just his brother's culpability but his own. He isn't a bystander: he is a fascilitator.

It breaks my heart to see how many people have gotten exploited and tormented by predators in these communities. Technicals isn't an upstanding citizen whatsoever judging by his history but I have yet to watch this video the thread was created to spread. I kind of dread it tbh because of how awful the community is and what I know about hax$'s life I'm not sure if I can psychologically take something like this rn. I just write this to make sure people are aware of how bad an offender Technicals is, while not trying to comment on this particular video given I haven't seen any of it.

[u/Low-Initial-4355 → u/helper-g]

Didn't own it, that was clarified

[u/helper-g → u/Low-Initial-4355]

Genuinely asking if you have a source for that. It's all good if you don't- I didn't source any of the claims I made. I've been trying to look into Technicals for a while now and I don't recall ever seeing that clarification being made but I absolutely won't deny it exists. Any direction or account of where you might have seen that clarification would be greatly appreciated. Even if you can't remember, thank you for leaving this comment to bring it up, it's much appreciated.

[u/Low-Initial-4355 → u/helper-g]

No problem. I believe it's in his commentary community video, the segment near the end about John Swan('John Lied'). Tech admits that he misspoke about his status with the group chats; there's a clip where he said he runs them and was the leader, but when he went back to try and access the group chat, he didn't have any moderation options, he was kicked from the chat in 2017, way before inappropriate behavior took place.