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Brain dead FGC commentator TNS ProXY says that Leffen "I fear for my life" Hjelte is bringing 20XX to Guilty Gear Strive. #CEO2025 TSM Leffen

Brain dead FGC commentator TNS ProXY says that Leffen "I fear for my life" Hjelte is bringing 20XX to Guilty Gear Strive. #CEO2025 TSM Leffen

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This is what Smash Sisters looked like in 2017. The recent attention that Smash Sisters has gotten, has made me realize that I had almost entirely forgotten that this group even exists. Smash Sisters events used to be scheduled into the streaming blocks of major tournaments. They had crew battles on the big stage streamed live in front of thousands of people. You could literally see top melee players in the crowd supporting these events, as evidenced in this video. So... why is it that we now only hear faint whispers of these events through locked down social media posts like this one? What happened? Simply - The group of people that Smash Sisters was created in order to platform and protect no longer exists within the melee community, at least not to a meaningful degree, and they have been replaced by an entirely different group of people. To deny that is to deny reality. This is not a hateful message. This is not a bigoted message. It is a truthful and well-meaning one. As stated in this video by the founders of Smash Sisters, the group was created in order to grow the melee scene by providing an incentive for women to sign up for smash events. That incentive being community. Comradery. By lowering the barrier of entry, it allows an opportunity for growth - particularly for those women who had an interest in smash, but lacked a support system, or for women who had qualms about signing up for a tournament, going 0-2, and then sitting around for three days by themselves. It was an inherently inclusive endeavor, and a net positive on the community. Now, Smash Sisters is completely unrecognizable. It is a pale imitation of what it once was, and was meant to be. Their events are, almost entirely, transgender exclusive - run by and competed in by individuals who regularly and openly advocate for violence, attempt to silence any and all criticism of the group in its current iteration, and call for the removal of individuals from the melee community who do not agree with their personal beliefs and ideologies. It is, now, inherently exclusionary and polarizing, and conceivably off-putting to those very same women for whom Smash Sisters was created in the first place.

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