What Is A "Matt"?

What is a "Matt?"

A "Matt" is a person who spreads false information or rumors and acts as if they are fact. Matts will often become defensive when called out on their behavior, and most of the time tend to disappear when/if they are proven wrong. A Matt is like the evolved form of the "my dad works at nintendo" kid we all knew at one point.

Why is it a "Matt?"

In early 2017, a user known as "skyfan91" (real name Matt) joined the darkspyro.net forums. Since he has opted to use my real name when he talks about me (even though i did not want that), i will do the same to him.

Matt was adamant in spreading his rumor that a "Year 2" of content for Skylanders: Imaginators was confirmed, due to some vague comments from a PR person. When confronted about his denseness, he became defensive and overall rude. As time went on, more information both for and against this rumor. An image leak came from 4chan, and seemed pretty convincing. And this gave our friend Matt a massive rumor boner. He spread this information like it was set in stone, even to other places such as Instagram.


A month later, we got another leak, which quickly debunked the theory. Poor little Matt was heartbroken. He stopped posting for a bit, until we learned where he went- off to twitter to prod the former Academy Showrunner and Liam Robertson. (both of which knew much, MUCH more than him by the way.) He eventually caused these two grown men to fight over twitter because of his false hype.

After that shitshow got calmed down, Matt was berated and ostracized by almost everyone on the skylanders side of the forums. With nobody else willing to put up with his bullshit, Matt posted some cringy kingdom hearts tier sad text, and left.

And that is why they are called "Matts". To never forget the mistakes of the one who plunged us into panic for a good few months.

since some people wanted to know what my little term means.