Hax's death is no one's fault but his own, and any blame or shame being thrown on other people is retarded.
This isn't some kind of Byuu shit where he got so mad about people talking negatively about him that he threatened to kill himself if they didn't stop criticizing him. KF never impacted Byuu's ability to do anything, just his ego having to hold the knowledge that people on KF had his sins archived.
The Melee community actively banned Hax$, turned him into a community pariah, took away every single one of his contributions to the community he helped build, rebranded them, removed his name from them, repackaged them, and resold them as if he never existed. Then they made him grovel over and over and over again for a chance to be allowed even the slightest bit of access to what he helped build. All because he stepped out of line and critiqued the godking of Melee, Leffen.
Time and time again, he confessed to his mistakes, denounced the harsh language he used in Evidence.zip 2, he never minded the criticism he got for the video, what he cared about was the blanket permaban he received after spending several years trying to atone to the TOs trying to permanently get rid of him with inconsistent reasoning and sweeping methods.
Most of the people who are calling themselves his mourning friends now that he's passed away (with a handful of exceptions) did not make a fucking peep when he was alive and being treated as some sort of feral animal for the final four years of his life, all because they were afraid of whatever damage Leffen and his sycophants might do to their image. That's how isolated the guy was from the community he helped build.
Simpleflips really put it well when he compared Hax's passion to the game to that of a pianist spending hours of their lives perfecting their piano playing.
You spend hours of your life, perfecting your craft, and all of a sudden, a bunch of sweaty smelly weirdos who organize and run the local concert hall ban you from ever performing for people ever again. Not just within your hometown, but across the world too. The average person could move on and find something new, but someone dedicated to music/performance art would be destroyed.
You can see this kind of thing in a lot of real life sports stories,
a torn ACL leading a college football star to become a drug addicted criminal,
a rigged boxing match blinds a fighter, making him unable to fight ever again, leading him to take his own life not long after. Taking away someone's passion never turns out well.
I’m not sure I even regard the TOs as evil or anything like that. I think they are just irresponsible pussies who are clearly unfit for their positions of power and the responsibility that comes with that.
They're petty, powertripping faggots who enjoy having power over other people for any reason at all.
Ultimately, at the end of this, Hax$'s biggest crime was advocating for himself poorly. People are superficial and get caught up on completely inane shit - he literally died for the crime of being cringe.
I agree, the biggest "crime" he committed was wording himself poorly to an audience of perpetual victims looking for a reason to act victimized.
