About
Melee Hell is a "Facebook group[1], designed as a satirical response to the Melee Social Facebook group and Melee Social board on Smashboards. Brookman, a Super Smash Bros. Melee player hailing from Connecticut, created the group in late 2014, with active posting members that include Hungrybox, Mew2King and Hax, among many other both professional and non-professional Smashers, though the majority of members, mostly due to content, are older members of the smash community.
Posters on Melee Hell often reference in-jokes, such as 20XX (with Hax being their lord and savior and with everyone in the group saying they main Fox), farcical posts about Melee’s perceived quality compared to other games in the series, and satirical statements about other smashers, with a large majority of posts tending to be photoshopped images.
Origin
It’s known exactly known when Melee Hell was created, but it is speculated to have been created in late 2014.
h2, Reception
Melee Hell has been controversial to some members of the Smash community, with criticism being focused at the often vulgar and obscene content of the page; some of the content has also been criticized for being racist or sexist, as well as promoting trolling. Some followers of Melee Hell have also sent threats to smashers outside of the group; however, admins for Melee Hell prohibit such threats, and the majority of members do not approve of such threats.
Provocative users tend to post memes and other jokes on the community, most of which are controversial, leading to Melee Hell being a very touchy subject amongst Smashers. There are also very explicit posts made, which furthers this point. However, sexual images are usually banned, mostly due to not wanting the group to be removed by Facebook.
Impact
When professional Ice Climber main Chu Dat was dropped from Mortality eSports, Melee Hell held a crowd funding to pay for his plane ticket to EVO 2015. Due to the “sponsorship,” Chu Dat wore a Melee Hell themed shirt and signed with the tag "MH | Chu Dat. Despite not being a Fox main, Chu Dat is known in the Smash community for his trolling antics. After Chu Dat finished 7th at EVO 2015, interest in Melee Hell sparked, including a tweet by top professional Melee player, PPMD.
MELEEHELL!!!!!!
— Kevin Nanney (@EG_PPMD) July 19, 2015Many smashers have used “Melee Hell” as a clan/crew name in tournaments, mostly as a joke.
Because of the large user base Melee Hell has garnered, offshoots of the group have been created, which include "Sm4sh Hell, a group dedicated to Smash 4 anti social debauchery [2], "M2K Hell, dedicated to renowned professional smasher, Jason “Mew2King” Zimmerman[3], and "Squid Hell dedicated to Splatoon[4].
h2, Fandom
Members of Melee Hell often congregate to the Melee Hell facebook group page, where they make shitposts and create dank memes in relation to Super Smash Bros. Melee and its competitive scene.
Aside from the group page, “Melee Hell also has a facebook[5] and twitter[6]” that showcases some of the memes that the members of the facebook group created. "Melee Hell has their own subreddit[7] and tumblr[8] account that also include the same aspects of the facebook and twitter pages.