![]() And the social media team have promoted a number of Youtubers in the past.Īnyway, Arin's not as over the topic Sonic hater as people make out. This isn't some kind of massive corporate strategy to suck up to Sonic haters. Making someone who hates Sonic the face of your marketing on more than one occasion is maybe not so fine. It's the Sonic series, you should be well aware by now that yes, it absolutely can be that bad.Īrin does hate Sonic. I implore you to actually research before going "weeeeell it can't be that bad". Jirard is there, true, but it's kind of mitigated when their focus has always been on Arin. Arin's pretty much the only Tuber they do suck up to, so Tornado's right. He's not even exaggerating - they do commonly suck up to Arin. Making someone who hates Sonic the face of your Sonic marketing on more than one occasion is maybe not so fine. Although I'd guess it's somewhat exaggerated.Īrin does hate Sonic. I know the Sonic Social Media somewhat, but I don't know too much about this self-loathing in terms of what they themselves post that's alleged. It was an implication that the Social Media commonly sucks up to Sonic haters when that's just untrue. But I've a cursory enough knowledge to think this is a bit over the top.īecause Tornado was making out the Sonic Social Media was flying out 'Youtubers' (just Arin) and sucking up to people who hate Sonic, when they don't. ![]() Reviewers all hate Sonic! Youtubers hate Sonic! Even the Social Media indulges Sonic hate, even when they try to promote him! It's so reductive and non nuanced.Īnd maybe the self-criticisms go too far, and I'm not an expert on the Twitter page, I haven't read every post. Again, it's part of the whole persecution thing I'm talking about. ![]() I think you are way, way reading into some kind of self-loathing going on. When Aaron and his team use these kinds of jokes, and mocking Sonic 06, they are just taking a light hearted approach to the franchise. It's based on the old cartoons, so it's obviously based on fan endearment. 'Gotta go fast' is pretty neutral, a lot of people use it, both fans and haters. A lot of fans make jokes about it too, because you can like a franchise while finding criticisms of it amusing. A lot of people do use Sanic as a pisstake, but it's not solely used as a form of attack. I think you're imagining some great self-loathing in the Sonic social media that simply isn't there. ![]() There's no doubt about that and that's a prime demographic for sure, even if they only care about the series for the purposes of mocking it. ![]() Making the Sonic series a self aware parody of itself that carries around a Shatner-esque swagger, even as it still struggles to put out actual product with anything resembling consistent quality, has been a rousing success for people who communicate in image reaction posts on Twitter. Even assuming I agree with your interpretation of how Arin conducts himself on Game Grumps, you're giving the typical YouTube viewer far more credit than they'll ever deserve. This isn't even the first time they've done it with this event thing, since as already noted it actually happened around TGS last year and they posted about it th en and made people confused.ĭon't know how to break this to you, but people that throw around "Gotta go fast" and "Sanic" aren't necessarily doing it out of endearment. This is not an isolated occurrence of forcing dank Sonic memes. And I think that's the bigger issue, because no matter what advertising angle they go with, it ain't gonna mean shit ass if sega keeps fucking up the games. I wouldn't mind the sonic humor they have, but the issue is the games. What will they think of next? Paying Jim Sterling to throw copies of Sonic Mania Plus into a woodchipper that has "Sonic 4 Green Eyes" spraypainted on the side? HOW WACKY!Ģ) While the self awareness was novel at first it has quickly grown into a means, while not intentionally, to try and wash criticism away. ARIN, PLAYING A SONIC GAME AT SEGA'S EXPENSE!? HIS SMUG IRONIC DETACHMENT AT THE PROCEEDINGS SURE PASSES AS HUMOR! It never ceases to amaze that the company that once came up with "GENESIS DOES" and "Welcome to the Next Level" has decided that the best way to advertise their Sonic games (even above and beyond memeing how much Sonic fucking sucks on Twitter) is to fly YouTubers famous for shitposting about how terrible Sonic always was all the way around the world to so they can get that sick internet meme cred from the people who still think there's anything about Game Grumps that is still watchable. ![]()
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