I was with you all the way until the fanbase section. You're taking the most cynical possible interpretation of the situation and then calling everyone spineless manchildren for not going along with it. Your diagnosis of the Sephiroth trailer reception is totally off. Fans were displeased with Byleth (which I found to be incredibly petty of them) and not with Sephiroth. Virtually no one is against disliking Smash videos on principle. There's no double standard here. You refer to Nintendo products as "shiny new toys," acting as if it's a weird thing that people who enjoy Nintendo's products are excited to purchase those products when they appeal to them. If you want pressure to be put on Nintendo, fine. There are ways to accomplish this beyond disliking content that fans actually LIKE. And if I'm not mistaken, in none of the examples you showed in which videos were bombed regardless of their actual content had an announcement anywhere near the magnitude of a Sephiroth trailer. It seems as if you think that anything short of a wholesale boycott of Nintendo is unacceptable. If that's the approach you want to take, fine, but expecting a significant portion of fans to join you is idealistic at best.
Also, it's wasn't so unreasonable of fans to draw a distinction between Sakurai and Nintendo's legal team. Sakurai is first and foremost the lead developer of Smash Ultimate. Yes, he's also a spokesperson for Nintendo, but only within the realm of the development and design of Super Smash Bros. You can criticize him for his attitude toward competitive Melee, but he didn't personally shut down The Big House. Expecting him or anyone who works at Nintendo, even a grunt, to stick their neck out to call Nintendo out on their shady practices is laughable. It would be admirable if he did, but that's not how this works.
And for the record, I've bee playing my PS4 almost exclusively for the past five years, and I don't own a Switch. I think Smash is really cool and used to be a hardcore fan, but more traditional fighting games like Guilty Gear are more up my alley.

Arron, sorry for basically hijacking your comment. I hope you aren’t too annoyed

@Alexander Day You know how about if I show you what they told me instead. Let me show you and it's real

The Letter From Nintendo

Dear Jake:

Thank you for taking the time to write to us here at Nintendo! Due to high volumes and preventive measures put in place by COVID-19, we haven't been able to respond to you in a timely manner. I apologize for the delay in our response!

In your letter, you spoke about people who had been mean to you online, and I'm sorry that they've given you such a difficult time. Here at Nintendo, our mission is to put smiles on the faces of everyone we touch. This can be tough, but it's something we care about doing! For example, perhaps we make a game loved by most of our fans, but some of them don't enjoy it at all. We want to hear both sides. Maybe the game can be improved, so more people can enjoy it! Or, maybe the game simply isn't for them, and we can make a different kind of game they'll enjoy.

When we hear all the positive things our amazing fans like you say, it encourages us to keep up the good work. When we hear the negative things people say, it pushes us to think of how to make them happy, too. We'll keep making great games that you can enjoy and be inspired by, don't worry! For the people who aren't yet having fun, just leave them to us. We've got a lot of smart and talented people on the case, figuring out how to let everyone have as much fun as you're having.

You also mentioned that you make Mario videos, and even included a picture you made of Mario along with your letter. It's flattering how Nintendo inspired your creativity - your work is fantastic! We're still working on our own Mario movie, and will announce more when we're ready.

Thanks again for writing, Jake! As a token of our appreciation for your letter, a few small items have been enclosed with this response. We are very excited about the future of Nintendo, and we're looking forward to sharing more great games with you!

Sincerely,

NINTENDO OF AMERICA INC.

I did what had to be done. No one else would ever write a letter to Nintendo telling them about people using Iwata's death as an excuse over the online membership. Because they're just brainless douchebags who can't even see the truth and understand the realistic reality. Here's another truth. Doug Bowser is NOT making those decisions at Nintendo, Nintendo of Japan is making those decisions. You are lucky AF that they never listen to SJWS's or woke people unlike Disney and Sony. (COUGH COUGH The Last of Us 2 failure) They don't buy companies and milk them until they go out of business like EA and they don't treat their developers like crap or crunch like activism blizzard. Those people that compare Nintendo to those companies are just retarded sacks of crap that can't even see the realistic truth and stuck on the internet for life. Sometimes the internet can't be trusted. On my YouTube channel I'm always serious and truthful and I never lie. New and young fans need a truthful and respectful YouTuber who can tell them the truth and the realistic reality and show them proof. I'm the only one who can do it. No one else would ever do it

@M64bros My point is that any “Nintendrones” can be ignored by not looking at Twitter. I have not seen nearly as much defending of the company since I do not use Twitter. I use YouTube and the comment sections I’ve seen have all just been people complaining about Nintendo. I should stop replying to the comments here. I just wanted someone to read my comment since I wasted a long time writing it even though I knew nobody would probably read it

Edit: I reread your comment any realized what it actually said. That is cool that they responded to you but I don’t think they look at the internet and decide to do bad things because the fans let them and defend them. I wrote the reasons they probably do bad things in my comment which you can probably still see if you sort comments by newest first. If you can’t tell from my profile pic, I do like Nintendo games. Some of my favorites are the first Paper Mario, Pikmin 3 on Wii U, and Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. I’m just getting more annoyed with the problems around the Switch. It just feels a lot cheaper than any other system with its design and its services

@Alexander Day I told those people politely to please stop but sadly they didn't believe me. So I wrote a letter telling Nintendo about people using Iwata's death as an excuse RESPECTFULLY And surprisingly they responded to me.

@Alexander Day You want to hear another truthful fact. People were using Iwata's death as an excuse over the online membership in a disgusting and disturbing way. It humiliated a lot of innocent people online. And you can blame Elijah Kaddu and Narwhale and Stickman the scientist for starting the whole thing

@roxane wolf We are saying that Nintendo is bad and that the fans are not responsible for it. As awful as the fans on twitter are it’s not like they are the reason for Nintendo’s bad practices.

Ruh roh raggy, I round a nintendo ran boy.

I agree. I wrote a comment today too where I say why he gives the fans too much credit. There are better explanations for Nintendo being bad.