If Eten, Lance or Scotch dont say it, dont believe it tbh. Some people kept throwing out fake spoilers, about shit like that and other stuff, it was really annoying.
People remaining statues even if the Mero Mero user dies is fucking broken, too broken! Even Sugars DF wasnt that extreme?!
I have a feeling we're gonna see people permanently petrified and wiped out from history that way? Maybe that was part of the great cleansing? It would be easy to destroy their petrified forms, their "self become statues" especially with...oooh...a QUAKE fruit too?! Maybe thats also why BB wanted it too?! That harmony with turning people to stone easily then also easily smashing them into nothing with his quake powers?!
This chapter is such a mindfuck, wtf?!
These people petrified by the fruit can even resemble the victims of the Pompeii eruption...