As for Melee itself... it's fine, nothing to bad, it works, people like it, and I'm not going to make a big fuss about the game itself. As for the meta itself, I don't get it, all I see is the same techniques and characters used over and over again in an autistic manner, especially since there are more profitable ways as mentioned in the smash community thread. but if people are going to play the game in the same way, so be it.
But as for the Melee Hashtags, how the fuck did people think it could possibly work?, even the oldfags that use GameFAQs knew very well that FreeMelee would fail hard and wouldn't change Nintendo's mind since Smash Ultimate and their other games sell so well anyways.
unless people were to follow in the footsteps of Quackity and raid their online since Quackity had success impacting Roblox and Disney when he pulled the raids on them (the former with the Roblox forums shut down and the latter with the assisted shut down of Club Penguin Island) or people were to actually raise enough money to legally battle Nintendo, it would otherwise be a failure that wouldn't matter as Nintendo could have done anything like they did with Sephiroth or anything that would garner positive PR and it'll cancel out anything the Smash Community could have done, especially since FreeMelee was a trend most the time and now basically is tagged on virtually everything that vaguely fits the original cause of it.