The world wasn’t shocked when Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo announced his retirement from the company as he was looking to grow both in terms of his professional goals and get back to his family.
With his retirement from the company, many fans were disappointed. Reggie has a legendary status in the entire your video game industry and not just does he have a brilliant mind in the direction he took the company, he was also the man of many memes. Of course, following up on this there had to be a few trolls here and there.
The king troll, at least so far, seems to be rapper Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy has already had a few run-ins with Nintendo over the past few products headed he has released. In December of 2018, he started advertising new game consoles that were really just cheap knockoffs and were mysteriously removed from the market shortly after they were announced.
He even tweeted that Nintendo isn’t going to do anything about it, but he may have spoken too soon. They did.
Shortly after he turned to make a PlayStation Vita clone and claimed that it would run Fortnite. This was also shut down soon enough but by Epic Games. So with 2-for-nothing so far, he doesn’t really have a solid track record in terms of his gaming consoles. They’re all just blatant rip-offs of existing consoles run their licensed or unlicensed games- this isn’t really how you introduce yourself to the market.
Perhaps Soulja Boy should take a hint from the Mad Box.
Regardless, Soulja Boy tweeted about Reggie Fils-Aime in a joke stating that she was the one who made him retire:
I made him retire 🤷🏾♂️ https://t.co/ibQiCfIHjZ
— Soulja Boy (Drako) (@souljaboy) February 22, 2019
The Tweet is a joke as a lot of his tweets are but a lot of Nintendo fans have come out with tons of backlash regarding his tweet. Here are just a few examples I found well browsing Twitter:
— TheTrueJerryCan (@TheTrueJerryCan) February 22, 2019
— GloriousStarscream 🖤 (@glorious720p) February 22, 2019
Given that Soulja Boy diss track record recently isn’t the most impressive, seeing all these Nintendo fans defending Reggie and putting Soulja Boy in his place for even suggesting that he was one who made him retire restore some faith in humanity.
This even affected competing figures in the industry such as PlayStation’s Shawn Layden and Microsoft’s Phil Spencer both had comments regarding Reggie’s departure from the company.
Reggie-based fan creations have been blowing up in the Nintendo Community, including even a custom amiibo created by Nintendo fans. We can all see the legendary status of this man and his influence on the industry and we all hope that he fulfills his personal goals. Now we just need to do with the trolls.
— 🍂Pyronape🍂 (@Pyronape) February 22, 2019
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