Smasher:MagicScrumpy
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| MagicScrumpy "scrumpy" | |
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| Character info | |
| Melee mains | Peach, Young Link |
| Other Melee character | Fox |
| Personal and other info | |
| Real name | Jeremiah Joslin |
| Birth date | |
| Location | Ann Arbor, Michigan 
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| Miscellaneous info | |
| Skill |  Amateur |
MagicScrumpy, or simply scrumpy (all in lowercase) is a Smasher from Michigan who specializes in creating mods and TASes for Melee on YouTube. He also speedruns games such as Super Mario Sunshine. As of May of 2017, his main YouTube channel, which focuses on Melee, has over 100,000 subscribers, his second channel titled "redfuzzydice" has over 20,000 subscribers, his Twitch channel has nearly 9,000 followers (and non-public amount of subscribers), and his Twitter account has over 12,000 followers.
Series
What If? - A series focusing on changing an aspect of a character and making TAS montage that shows off what it would look like if the character had a certain trait, typically taken from another character. This series is the most common type of video on the channel.
WarioWare: Smash Bros Edition - Short and discontinued parodies of the WarioWare games if they were Melee themed.
Rebalancing Melee: Also known as the Viable series, scrumpy makes mods of characters to make them better or worse, and occasionally overpowered. However, the later videos have been criticised for copying changes from SD Remix for the sake of views.
Miscellaneous Melee Videos: Melee videos with no main theme.
Turbo Mode: Montages where character's moves can be cancelled into each other.
Glitch in Depth: Also known as Glitch Explained, Scrumpy goes over why a glitch in a video game happens in depth, as the title would suggest.
Breaking Super Mario Sunshine: A series moved to his second channel where he goes through the interesting things about Super Mario Sunshine.
Shitty E-Sports Commentary: A discontinued series where scrumpy voices famous Smash moments in the most monotone voice possible.
Controversy
600 Hours and TAS
On November 13th, 2016, Reddit user _quote made a comment on the r/SSBM Daily Discussion Thread about his suspicion over 600 Hours' validity. They stated that the timer values were all similar and the opponents did similar things that were done by CPUs in his TAS videos. They also said that everything scrumpy went for was unsafe and he NEVER misses a move the entire combo video. Scrumpy says that he is nowhere near good at the game in the description, but what is demonstrated in the video would disagree with that, as not even human reaction is as good as that. There are also nearly no stale moves in the video, which would imply not a full match was played. However, none of this was solid evidence and was instead just reasons to be suspicious. Then, on November 15, 2016, another post came out on r/SSBM by Pwnemon proving that there are little to none stale moves in the entire video and compared the to stale combos, with some checkups by Practical_TAS in the comments. Finally, on November 25, 2016, Practical_TAS made a post on r/SSBM with proof that the values in the combo video are all incredibly rare if not faked, which he implies they are. Since the business was over, mods of r/SSBM decided to ban 600 Hours threads. For a while, it seemed that scrumpy would not reply, until screenshots from his public Discord server were posted of him acting inappropriately. He said that he was being attacked and instead of directly responding, he'll add non-skipable ads on the video to maximize profit off of the drama. He also said that he felt like "selling out" (his words, not mine) to Smash 4, and blamed the entire thing on drama instead of his actions. It was also revealed that he submitted the combo video for a $100 (USD) cash prize. He did not win, but it was wrong of him to steal the money. Months later, on March 2, 2017, scrumpy tweeted a Pastebin link about his response. He said that only some of the clips were TASed, some were staged, and some were real. The reason for faking some clips was because the song he wanted to use was too long and he didn't want to throw away his clips. He also said that he was unaware of a cash price for the tournament. This response was highly critised however. Many said that they didn't believe that only some clips were TAS, and this was because he never said what was TAS and what was staged and what was real. This was probably because it would've been proven wrong. There was also no reason to go through the trouble of staging a combo with a friend if he could just set timer values and TAS a combo. People also didn't believe he didn't know there was a cash prize, because that would've been in the description and comments for the tournament. A Steam private message also surfaced in the replies of the tweet of him saying it wasn't TAS, even after the accusations. In the end, this situation has been a huge blow on scrumpy's reputation and some view him as a liar because of this.
Nerfing Fox
One of scrumpy's most notable videos in his Rebalancing Melee series is about nerfing Fox. The video goes over what scrumpy would do to make Fox not nearly as good as he is in vanilla Melee (NSTC), while still making him feel like Fox. However, the video got over 1000 dislikes (but still 6000 more likes than dislikes) and was even disliked by top player Leffen. A common complaint is that Fox wasn't given a clear weakness. Every character has weakness, from Falcon's recovery to Pikachu's range. His motive was to make Fox still feel familiar, but the idea of nerfing him contradicts that message.
scrumpy VS Leffen on "Nerfing Fox"
Leffen then tweeted that he thought the video was terrible without giving specific reasoning. Scrumpy then replied asking why he didn't like it but he was still okay with Leffen not liking it. But then Leffen replied saying he was clickbaiting for views and money, but scrumpy actually agreed saying it was geared towards lower level players and that he didn't think top players would like it. However, Leffen continued to insult him, comparing him to Omni. Scrumpy said he would stop replying and told Leffen stop starting drama. However Leffen continued to insult scrumpy and said he was triggered. However, more people disagreed with Leffen's immature behavior rather than scrumpy's video, including GimR from VGBC. An example of this is the amount of dislikes on Leffen's stream of nerfed Fox, with 1/3 of them being dislikes.
SD Remix Plagiarism
On November 29th, 2016, Reddit user Ripple884 posted a thread onto r/SSBM exposing scrumpy for copying the exact values from the mod SD Remix for his Rebalancing Melee series and claiming them as his own and making money off of ad revenue on the videos. The characters with unoriginal changes were Zelda, Link, Donkey Kong, Ness, Game & Watch, Bowser, and DK. This means the only characters with original changes were Kirby, Roy, and Ganondorf (an already borderline viable character).
Public Discord Hostility
Scrumpy's public Discord server is known for being incredibly hostile and having one strong opinion that doesn't change. scrumpy has also been known for talking behind his friends' like Alpharad back's. If a person is has strong opinions that contradict the opinion of the server, they typically get kicked or humiliated. Some of the member of the moderation team can be hypocritical when talking about others, when they do the same thing but is impossible to prove because normal users can't post images. The reason for why there are 300 member but mostly only mods talk is because many people are labeled as a "shitter" for their opinion.
