'Smash' Fans Imagine Wild Masahiro Sakurai YouTube Collaborations After Developer Teases 'Special Crossover'

Super Smash Brothers creator Masahiro Sakurai has been carving a pretty cozy niche as a YouTuber since ceasing work on Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, with a channel focused on the ins and outs of game design.

After a year of racking up modest views with videos about the various aspects of creating video games and being Masahiro Sakurai, the Smash icon has apparently grown big enough on YouTube to book a "crossover" with a "well-known YouTube channel."

In a tease posted to Twitter yesterday, Sakurai told his followers that he would be playing "other games" as part of the crossover event.

With only the knowledge that Sakurai would be playing "other games" on a "well-known YouTube channel," the internet's imagination ran wild trying to come up with Sakurai's secret soon-to-be collaborator. Naturally, most of the "guesses" were jokes or memes.

While posts depicting Sakurai and The Angry Video Game Nerd aren't completely farfetched, the Smash creator speaks little English, so it's more likely he will collaborate with a Japanese YouTuber than a popular English streamer in the Western World.

Still, one can't help but imagine one of the industry's legendary game designers sitting behind, say, Arin Hanson's back and watch him skip over a game's tutorial on Game Grumps.