Alyssa Mercante, Senior Editor at Kotaku, has launched a cancel campaign against Smash JT following his tweet about receiving his Press badges for San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). Despite their mutual blocks on social media, Mercante stalked his profile …
Alyssa Mercante, Senior Editor at Kotaku, has launched a cancel campaign against Smash JT following his tweet about receiving his Press badges for San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). Despite their mutual blocks on social media, Mercante stalked his profile and shared a photo of his badges, accompanied by hateful messages. This ignited a wave of responses from her followers aimed at discrediting his credentials. Some followers even tagged associated outlets like Paramount+, spreading falsehoods and attempting to cancel his access to the convention.
The irony is incredible—Mercante, who claims Smash JT harasses and slanders others, seems to be projecting her insecurities and jealousy onto him. If anything, she has been engaging in this behavior throughout her career, and Smash JT has been reacting to her instabilities.
As regular viewers of Smash JT's channel know, his video commentary has always analyzed industry "professionals," including Mercante. She has not represented gamers or the video game industry in the best light. Perhaps it's time for her to introspect and improve herself instead of launching cancel campaigns against those she perceives as more successful. Mercante's behavior is not just hypocritical; it's a blatant display of the double standards she operates under.
Her tweet, "If I was attending this year I would have been appalled to walk into the press lounge and see..." strikes a particularly hypocritical note. She portrays herself in a certain light on social media, often sharing provocative images that may make viewers uncomfortable. In contrast, her professional public behavior on social media reveals who she truly is.
Moreover, her accusation that Smash JT "makes thumbnails of me and my colleagues’ cleavage for his videos in which he calls us whores!" is odd. She has previously referred to herself as a "camgirl" in her own words. Smash JT has never called her a "whore." That's libel, Alyssa. The image she presents to the public can and WILL be used..
