The Bizarre Modern Reality of Sonic the Hedgehog

I love how Jakes parents messy divorce is a mundane fact of life, but Sega cancelling Dreamcast is a life shattering event.

"I have been quarentining for 5 weeks" oh, the innocence of the past.

learning for the first time that the "your actions have consequences" kid was actually ranting about Sonic has just made my day in a way i cannot describe

That reveal of Hesse being the redesigner for movie Sonic actually made me cry. What a way to start; memes made on irony, probably out of a love for the characters, to being hired for the official movie- it's really poetic and powerful! Fans make their fandoms, and fans grow up into creators for those IPs or their own creations inspired by them. It's comforting, it's beautiful

90s eggman: a legitimately intimidating villain 2020s eggman: I’VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT-

"The fanbase is.... Diverse." "You mean it's fuckin weird." "It's a matter of perspective, really."

the fact i played sonic in the mega drive, and got too poor to keep on with the releases i got, but then years later, work on the very movie of one of the first characters i've ever played a game with felt like a reunion with an old esteemed friend. sonic(and tails) shaped so much of my childhood. you did an amazing job with this video. sonic is a very important franchise to me, even if we got so many years apart.

I love Eyepatch Wolf's ability to talk about the absolute weirdest parts of a fandom and talk about the psychological parts of it in a constructive way. So, when are we getting a look into Among Us?

Man, seeing how Sonic and SEGA treat their fans' work vs how Nintendo treats fanwork is honestly depressing...

The level of thought and effort put into the hypothetical friend "Jake" worries me for some reason.

BRUH, when you mentioned "Super mario Bro Z" I got hit with a world of nostalgia. I remember watching that with my little brother. I didn't really know what it was at first, but I got more and more into it! Until I forgot about it later... Until now.

"A character struggling against a twisted parody of himself." A thing Sonic has canonically dealt with more than once!

Sonic is dead and we’ve killed him. And then we resurrected him apparently.

I just wanna know why Jake is a 10 year old smoker

The fact SEGA allows their fans to be so open and moldy with Sonic is what makes them a great company. It's amazing to see how far it's all came over the past (nearly 30) years. It really goes to show what good things can happen when companies actually listen to their fans. Like the Sonic movie going from a laughing stock to a blockbuster blowout, all because the executives sat down and said, "You know what? The fans know what they want better than we know what they want. We should let them decide what gets to happen with Sonic. He belongs to them now."

I remember there used to be a period of time on Google that it was near impossible to find a picture of knuckles on a human hand without the image results being flooded by the sonic character, and that you would have to use a very specific search term to bypass all the sonic pictures.

NGL, the character development of jake is what made me cry. " I don't play those games anymore"

When you think about it, "Super Eyepatch Wolf" sounds like a good name for a Sonic OC.

It's fun to think that the fandom and public perception on Sonic are now changing. Frontiers turned out to be an actually good game making bold, intelligent decisions with the characters. I wonder what the future holds for the blue hedgehog.

No mention of the fact that the famous Sanic image appears in the official Sonic movie? I think it really adds to the bizarre depth and bleed through of fanbase and reality.