I’m sure the majority of you by now have figured out that because of popular demand,
we’ve been doing a whole lot of videos on Sonic.
And hey, don’t get me wrong, we respect the blue blur a lot!
But, as with any main stream pop culture legacy, Sonic’s history - and current state of being
- has it’s issues.
So today we’re coming at you with our list of the top 10 things that Sonic has ruined.
I’ve personally gotten a lot of messages from fans of the channel that were eager to
share their adoration of Sonic, so if that includes you, don’t be offended by this
list.
It’s in good fun.
Also Sega is awful and is mostly responsible for the majority of things we’ll be talking
about, so…yeah.
Blame Sega.
10 VRChat Vrchat describes itself as a place where you
can explore virtual worlds with other people from around the world, allowing for social
VR experiences by giving the power of creation to its community.
It encourages making friends, collaborating with other users to help shape the meta verse,
and expressing one’s self.
Then this happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTqmgFYYNI Tidiestflyer, the deviant art user who created
the 3D model of Gregzilla’s Knuckles caricature, has even stated his disappointment in how
the Uganda Knuckles meme has disrupted VRchat.
I quote, “VRchat has become a meme ground and I feel I have hoped to dig a grave for
Vrchat.
Soon people are gonna get tired of all the memes that now pollute the servers.
And with 500 people trying to just enjoy an event, they can’t because there just isn’t
enough moderation to hold down the rampant amounts of members.
So please…think about the users that you’re playing with.
Don’t let it be a second Second Life.”
In other words, this is why we can’t have nice things.
9 Cosplay Cosplay is pretty awesome.
It’s a thriving community filled with incredibly creative and imaginative individuals from
a wide range of backgrounds and skills, coming together to spread the love while dressed
up as one of their favourite characters.
But thanks to Sonic, Cosplay has been giving a bad reputation to groups of people outside
of the community.
How so?
Let’s take a look at a few examples.
There’s this.
And this.
And, most importantly, my personal favourite, Eat the Hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgYiGUr3WJk To be fair, it’s not only Sonic who has
tainted Cosplay’s reputation, but it’s definitely higher up on the list when it comes
to spreading the cringe.
8 Our editors browser search history You’re probably thinking either, a) yeah
sure, whatever, stop complaining.
Or b) that’s very specific, please do tell.
Well, I’m now going to hand over this number to our editors to present you with a slide
show of all things Sonic that they’ve encountered and had to include in the videos on our channel.
7 Shipping Shipping is a major part of any fandom.
In various communities, it can act as an outlet when a certain series is lacking in representation,
it can bring fans together through mutual beliefs about characters, or it can just simply
satisfy unexplored narrative that fans really wanted to see pan out.
It’s pretty great.
But then, you get ships like these:
This is yet again another case of tainting an aspect of fandom and it’s reputation.
It’s also a case of how the internet can latch onto a joke which then over pollutes,
meaning we all get stuck having to see images of Sonic fucking a my little pony character.
I think I’ll pass.
6 Shrek Riffing off our last point, I think it’s
quite necessary to bring to up the Shadow Shrek ship.
Yes, it’s a cargo ship - a ship that fans having jokingly made up for shits and giggles.
But, when you’re in the line of work that we’re in, and you see images of Shrek making
out or fondling Shadow, it’s gets pretty old fast.
Once again, editors, do your thing.
5 Adorable photos of animals Yes, every now and then, it’s cute.
But seriously, other adorable animals rarely get photoshopped into fictional blue characters
this often, so why do poor hedgehogs gotta deal with this?
STAHP.
It just makes them look sadder.
4 Deviant Art If the absurd shipping fan art didn’t do
it for you, well, that’s just the tip of the Sonic fan art iceberg, friends.
Deviant Art is known for having some pretty risqué works of art in it’s community.
Which isn’t a bad thing.
Art is subjective, and creating a piece that you feel strongly attached to or says something
is important.
Create more art!
BUT THEN THERE’S SONIC FAN ART.
And I’m not talking about the innocent Sonic fan characters that younger fans are making.
Oh no.
There’s a whole lot of furry erotic art featuring Sonic characters.
And REALLY FUCKING WEIRD FAN ART featuring things like Sonic as a urinal.
Sonic and Shadow as a toilet.
Birther fan art featuring Tails and Sonic.
And a whole LOT MORE.
Luckily, it’s a pretty large community, and a lot of the sonic fan art these days
seems to be popping up elsewhere on the inter webs, but at times, it really does feel that
spotting some unfortunate sonic erotic on Deviant art is more likely that most would
want it to be.
3 Chilli Dogs Do you really need more evidence than that?
2 Sega So, for those of you wondering why we have
some much disdain for Sega, let me sum that up for you.
The treatment of Sonic fans is abhorrent.
No other major game studio would release under developed half assed games filled with glitches
and consistently bad game mechanics.
But they can, because Sonic’s fan base is SO loyal, and they take advantage of that.
According to a blog post from an ex Sega employee Ben Andac aka jpeg, even Sonic Team are tired
of Sonic, and those who are employed at Sega have just as low of a morale for the company
as some fans do.
And before you throw Sonic Mania in my face in those comments, just remember that Sonic
Mania was developed by SONIC FANS and published by Sega.
Sega hasn’t released a quality sonic game that they’ve personally developed IN YEARS.
So where does that leave us?
When you have a company that doesn’t care to really do well by their main attraction,
of course it’ll be mocked by fans and other gamers who think little of the series for
it.
Which fosters the kind of stuff and treatment of the character that we’ve seen on the
ENTIRETY of this list.
Sega USED to be good.
And while Sonic may not be initially responsible for that, there’s an obvious correlation
between how crappy the Sonic games and franchise has become with the lack of effort that Sega
has put into Sonic games and pretty much everything else, minus it’s Twitter page.
Even with all that aside, there’s still one thing that Sonic has ruined that has us
saltier than our feels for Sega.
1.
This channel