Alright, so I am a watcher if Doctor Freeze. Recently he started a frenzy to immo challenge starting in iron. I went on to his stream and said he should stop smurfing and he responded with "if they are iron, there's a lot more holding them back than smurfs".

Then today, I saw a community YouTube post of his saying "shorty only to immortal?". Someone in the comments said "no smurf" with Doctor Freeze responding "I'm using a shorty, how is that smurfing?".

This is why smurfing will never stop. Content creators will keep this sort of mentality and say "it's not my fault, it's the iron's fault, smurfing is fine if you give yourself restrictions". Thus, people will see popular creators smurfing and do it themselves. Smurfing is not going to stop any time soon.

Edit: for all you "this is why you're hardstuck" people, no I am not hardstuck, this is an informative post on why smurfing won't end