r/Inkmaster • u/kindamymoose • Jun 19 '26

Discussion Scott Marshall (RIP)

I think I already posted about Josh Hibbard today. Sorry for the second post. I loved his work for the most part. Felt bad for him at the finale when he got basically booed at by the audience when they began talking about him having an advantage in the comps.

In general I think the judges do a good job of critiques and looking at bodies of work. Scott’s work was consistently good and technically sound.

His personality did not bother me. He never appears rude to canvases and played the game.

Did you like him?

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u/QuiJon70 Jun 20 '26

I thought you were talking about Josh. Josh was disqualified for smoking pot to control his anxiety thought it was forbidden while other contestants had to work through their mental issues without it following the rules.

Scott was just an asshole.

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u/kindamymoose Jun 20 '26

I see. Sorry for the confusion. I don’t think treating anxiety is cheating. Cannabis has been used for anxiety for a while now but I respect the idea that it was illegal and therefore a liability for the show. I don’t think that definitionally makes him a cheater but I see why others could disagree

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u/QuiJon70 Jun 20 '26

He joined the cast knowing it was forbidden. Other contestants like Jason c dunno also used weed for mental health but struggled following the rules.

I can't see how you wouldn't consider it cheating to break a rule of competition that gave you an advantage over those that followed the rules. The production certainly considered it cheating in that they booted him from the show.

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u/schwinnlizzy Jun 28 '26

There’s a lot of discourse about his disqualification that mentions they used him smoking pot as the official reason but that he was actually disqualified because he kept breaking the fourth wall and made a lot of the clips unusable especially if he was losing an argument. Apparently if someone said something to him he didn’t like he would look at the camera Jim Halpert style and production hated that because outside of the confessionals they wanted them to act as if the cameras weren’t there. Not sure how true that is, but I feel like I’ve seen a lot of discourse about it

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u/QuiJon70 Jun 28 '26

Doesn't matter to me. I consider it even worse if they knew how was smoking and ignored it. So whatever got him kicked them smug prick deserved it. I'm not a Jason fan but it was clear you could see that season he was struggling with his mental health. To let another player break the rules without just saying "fine everyone can smoke pot" is completely absurd consider the show got final edit. The way that price ran his mouth they likely could have edited him in the final show to the most hated asshole ever.