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On June 1st, 2023, AlphaZealot stepped down as the owner of SmashBoards. His company Xyelot, LLC sold SmashBoards to Equistellar Media, Inc, a company owned by {{Sm|Warchamp7}} which will serve as the business entity for SmashBoards and SquidBoards going forward. | On June 1st, 2023, AlphaZealot stepped down as the owner of SmashBoards. His company Xyelot, LLC sold SmashBoards to Equistellar Media, Inc, a company owned by {{Sm|Warchamp7}} which will serve as the business entity for SmashBoards and SquidBoards going forward. | ||
Into the 2020s, SmashBoards would see a significant decline in users, posts, and moderator activity, with a brief uptick coming from the popular but short-lived forum game format "SmashBoards Creates", in which users would submit content to a fake game based on a vague prompt and vote on it democratically, with some games such as ''Super Smash Bros. Infinite'' embracing a grounded approach and focusing on realism through direct threadrunner moderation, while the majority embraced chaos and allowed or even enforced unconventional submissions, such as having preschool cartoon characters playable in a fighting game, directly featuring internet memes, or featuring side characters without their protagonists. SmashBoards as it exists today has a somewhat quiet and segregated atmosphere, with a community that tends to be somewhat analytical and to an extent critical of the current state of ''Smash'', with some subsectors of the site sharing a strong sentiment in opposition to character reveal hype culture, or in some extreme cases characters even getting individual reveals as a whole, which could be said carried the website in its "golden years", with many users not even talking about ''Smash'' often, instead just using the website as a generic social media platform to share opinions, jokes, and internet content. | |||
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