Virginben, AKA the guy who people believe is a legit leaker (who says stuff like Steve from Minecraft and Bandana Waddle Dee would be in the game at launch, then backpedaled to say it was DLC), endorsed a guy named Hitagi as a legit leaker, and then said guy gave contradictory information to what Virginben gives.
So now people are suspicious of Virginben, and he's falling apart at the seams. There are now three outcomes due to this development: either one or both of them are liars, and my money is on both. Not due to the presence of evidence for or against (as there is a lack of evidence entirely), but because they're both insufferable and I just want to see them fail.
In this exchange, somebody is calling Virginben out for not predicting Piranha Plant, which would've confirmed he was a 100% genuine leaker because of how specifically unpredictable the character is, but he conveniently opted not to leak it because he "didn't believe it" when it was relayed to him from his insider. Needless to say, a person in his position would
absolutely leak Piranha Plant even if he personally didn't believe it if his source has
any bit of credibility, or even exists to begin with, because it would confirm their credibility without a shadow of a doubt. Now he's backpedaling even more, saying he didn't leak it not because he didn't believe it, but because the video was watermarked...and he also won't post the watermarked video now that he knows it's real because of some moon logic I really don't understand.
As the magical Reddit upvotes demonstrate, people still hold stock into this absolute hack fraud over people with actual critical thinking skills. Typical of Reddit.
Anyway, Virginben is known for being absolutely obnoxious by making vague and general guesses and benefiting from the "broken clock is right twice a day" effect. It's less that people actually believe him, and more than his supporters are just as annoying as he is.