Atlus warned that persona 6 chatter was being polluted by fake employee accounts and misinformation. The company said its official information will only come from its website or official social media accounts, after a parody account posted a fake statement claiming to be from Atlus and acknowledging the leaks.
One account impersonating Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio lead Katsura Hashino posted the fake statement yesterday, and later tried to clean up the trail by quoting Atlus’s warning and telling fans to be careful. That sequence matters because some users had already started treating the counterfeit posts as evidence that the leaks were real.
Hashino parody post
The Hashino parody account also posted what looked like a Metaphor: ReFantazio sequel or expansion titled Metaphor: ReFantazio Retold. In a leak cycle this crowded, the difference between a joke account and a company statement gets blurred fast, and Atlus is now trying to reset that line before more false posts get mistaken for news.
Copyright strikes on images
Many people had also seen a deluge of potential Persona 6 artwork leaks, and Sega has apparently issued copyright strikes against the circulating images. Some users took those strikes as proof that the material was legitimate, which gave the rumor wave extra momentum even before Atlus stepped in with its warning.
Nate The Hate, a prominent Switch 2 leaker, added another layer of expectation by saying he was confident the game would show up at the Xbox Games Showcase. For readers trying to separate signal from noise, Atlus’s message is the cleanest rule in the story: ignore the parody accounts, watch the official channels, and do not treat platform strikes as a substitute for a real announcement.
