Jason 'Mew2King' Zimmerman was banned from Xtreme Fighters Showdown after his Super Smash Bros posts about swollen hands, bug bites and a home infestation spread across X/Twitter. The ban followed his October 16 posts, which drew attention well beyond the event itself.
Zimmerman wrote that his hands were “slightly swollen” and asked for a fix “ASAP” before boarding a flight to Texas. He also posted a photo of his right leg covered in red bumps, adding that he had seen similar bites “every week.”
October 16 posts on X/Twitter
On October 16, 2026, Zimmerman said the bites were part of why he moved from Ohio to California. He described the issue as coming from his house and said the problem had followed him for a long stretch, not just one isolated day.
He also said he lives with a caretaker, eight cats and two dogs. In the same posts, he said he had only ever seen fleas in the home and that the fleas usually come from the cats. The posts arrived as fans in the fighting game community reacted online to the photos and the health claims attached to them.
His own words on X/Twitter were unusually detailed. “My hands are slightly swollen (could be from all the SSBM Fox or from the bugs in the house that bite me each day), like pink/red and puffy/fatter than usual, is there a way to fix this ASAP? I'm boarding my flight to Texas now,” he wrote. He later added: “I had like a hundred of these on my body two months ago. Like, my entire body. This isn’t even nearly the worst picture, not even close,” and: “It’s all bug bites from the house. Lived like that for all year. Or recent months.”
Xtreme Fighters Showdown ban
Xtreme Fighters Showdown then removed him from the event on the same day the posts circulated. The ban came before any longer explanation from Zimmerman and left the tournament with one clear outcome: he would not compete there.
The response that followed changed the tone of the story. Zimmerman later said he made mistakes when posting out of frustration and venting, and he said he would not be streaming or around for a while. That left his immediate schedule unsettled in practice, while the public record focused on the ban already imposed.
Zimmerman’s later clarification
After the ban, Zimmerman gave a narrower account of the timeline. He said he had mentioned getting bit several times every week, but that the pattern was inconsistent over the year he was in Ohio, with some weeks and even some months having nothing at all.
He also said the viral leg photos were not recent and were instead from three months ago. In the same response, he said some 2-3 day spans were bad, mostly several months ago, and that he does not have every exact timeline memorized for the whole year.
The dispute now sits on one point: Zimmerman’s original posts linked the condition to the present moment, while his later explanation separated the worst images from that day. What remains most immediate for him is the ban from Xtreme Fighters Showdown and the pause he said he was taking from streaming and appearing publicly.
