Google Just Posted a Downright DYSTOPIAN Sonic Thread

[@nathaneisler318]

- "Short king" - Uses the tallest and lankiest version of Sonic.

[@sonic_enjoyer]

who even says "ok short king"

[@froobleton]

@@sonic_enjoyer probably tons of people honestly.

[@Rajclaw]

It’s ai generated art too lol

[@Nova_theCat_]

​@@Rajclaw nah, AI making art wasn't a public thing around the time Sonic Boom was released

[@BoltFinnikenOfficial]

@@Nova_theCat_ I think Rajclaw means that it's a recently generated ai image based on Boom, not made to promote or for Boom officially

[@CosmicTornado1]

The official Sonic twitter account replying saying “What are you doing?” That got me the most, lmao

[@ICader7194]

it's eight in the morning "what are you doing" lol

[@tchomsdaguy]

Sega: wth you got every single image wrong💀

[@HealyHQ]

@@ICader7194 Making chocolate pudding.

[@variumi]

‘This is why sonic dream team isn’t on google play’

[@ICader7194]

@@HealyHQ i like chocy pudding can i has sum?

[@TimoIvvie]

I hate Brand Twitter but the official Sonic account coming in with “what are you doing” is honestly hilarious

[@pj1343]

one of the only good brand accounts on there, honestly.

[@HKG4]

They’re probably the best brand account other than Among Us

[@mattwo7]

I found the time Sonic twitter made fun of the Bubsy twitter and dragged the usually out of character Mega Man twitter into it to be pretty hilarious myself, especially Mega Man going "Bubsy Bobcat? Sounds like a maverick, I should ask X about this" lol and then Bubsy was offended by Mega Man not remembering him and retorted by claiming he was there when a certain picture of Mega Man was taken.

[@BrandonVout]

Sonic Twitter is the closest Sonic's gotten to being a mascot with attitude in decades.

[@beywheelzhater8930]

Ranks up there with the twitter’s “keep your Kentucky fried fetish away from me” line that actually uses the sonic adventure model dialogue box and everything

[@Mystik3eb]

Sonic's official twitter just coming in all no-punctuation lower case "what are you doing" and ratioing the thread just kills me.

[@Mabra51]

Ratioing ? Can you translate ?

[@Blue-jl1yq]

​@@Mabra51 Sonic got way more likes than Google

[@WackMaDino]

@@Mabra51in sonic terms they got more rings than google

[@Weirdomilkshake]

​@@Mabra51 in google play terms sonic has more downloads than them

[@RandommBoyo]

no punctuation always hits harder than some forced joke lmao Also god damn will people ever stop using words for made up meanings for words like "ratio"

[@JsYTA]

Short King = Tallest Sonic Design

[@AnarchoTak]

I was looking for this comment

[@HelloSayEm6]

I thought 06 Sonic was the tallest

[@ryko1478]

​@@HelloSayEm6 It's definitely

[@HardboiledBread]

Okay short king 💅 👑

[@albertoandroidain]

As soon as I saw that, I genuinely thought they were being ironic. Imagine them doing the same thing with Knuckles and posting his Boom picture and going "'96 Knux. He should work out more, know what I'm saying??? 😉😉😉😉😜😜😜😜"

[@E_Fig05]

This is the reason ChatGPT still says, "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Consider checking important information."

[@lancesmith8298]

And often the important information you should be checking is “you could get better engagement by paying your grandmother 15 dollars to write a Twitter thread”

[@Gelatinocyte2]

They should rewrite that as "ChatGPT *will* make mistakes."

[@GraveUypo]

except if you ask chatgpt to do this, it will do a very good job of it. try it

[@nickrayer3776]

You know what's funny?I At CHATGPT something similar and it's way better than this

[@belnonaodh1520]

low key I don't even think ChatGPT could be this wrong with every single word spoken. It's possible that it was mandated to be done by Google Gemini or whatever AI tool they have

[@RynimationYT]

This is why Sonic Dream Team was only released on Apple Arcade

[@rainpooper7088]

@rygamer9792 We were too blind to see. Forgive us, Hardlight.

[@optimumplatinum2640]

this might be the best line in a while, i don't even blame em if so

[@CoraCreates]

There was a Sonic exclusive on Apple Arcade?

[@joutakujo9773]

@@CoraCreates Yeah and it's surprisingly good.

[@leonoliveira8652]

fk it, I want it on steam.

[@salmence100]

When even the largest tech company can't figure out how to properly use AI, maybe it's a sign lmao

[@RClipsGaming101]

Agreed to some extent, I think we should all keep watch just in case Google accidentally starts a Terminator style Robot up rising or something. But I don't think AI in particular is bad, because, like anything else we've made, it's ultimately a tool. And a tool doesn't determine how it's used, a person does. It's when said tool starts doing that last part that we might actually be screwed.

[@kylespevak6781]

AI is a tool. Anyone who trusts it's output completely is dumb

[@palecaptainwolfkayls8499]

On one hand, there is likely an intern or two who care at all for a twitter associated with a subsidiary of the company On the other hand, this is technically one of the many faces of the multitrillion dollar company, giving us exactly what image of them is necessary, intentional or not.

[@chlorobyte_projects]

Google has been known for horrible management. From removing dislikes, to the KZbin "algorithm" that does not even attempt to comprehend what you'd like to watch, to allowing straight up malicious advertisements across their platform. I don't believe they don't have talent, but what's for sure is they're not allowing any of it to shine. I could unironically make better use of AI than Google.

[@kirbymaster5]

Stuff like this and Willy's Chocolate Experience have me convinced that some people think AI gives them the license to be braindead.

[@Poyomini]

The Unknown still lives rent free in my mind

[@semifollower1]

What is that? It's the unknown!

[@xandtheironminer602]

No seriously wtf was the unknown about

[@Manelneedsaname]

@xandtheironminer602 if you knew it wouldn't be the unknown anymore, wouldn't it?

[@Criz454]

@@xandtheironminer602 it represents the future with ai

[@Boooo]

normally I don't like jumping to "ai wrote this", but there is no chance a human had input in any of this.

[@oOSonicexeOo]

I feel like considering that a lot of newer sonic fans (from what I’ve seen anyway) are also not making sense when it comes to certain things it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if it was actually a human that made the thread For example 1. I’ve seen people try to claim that sonic characters and dragon ball Characters have nothing in common 2. I’ve seen people try to claim that fan fiction is canon but I’ve also seen people try to claim that fan fiction real as in irl 3. Theirs also the fact that a lot of newer fans don’t seem to realise how old the franchise is or the age range of the fan base so you end up with really questionable opinions on the timeline of sonic related things mainly from younger people and then they get mad when someone older than them or has been a sonic fan longer than them calls them out on their BS only to then try to gaslight people into believing things like oh sonic went super before goku and stuff like that 4. Theirs probably more but I can’t remember because I’ve seen so many incorrect opinions that honestly I kind of give up sometimes (Sorry for long comment)

[@samcandles]

@@oOSonicexeOo what is blud waffling about

[@oOSonicexeOo]

@@samcandles if your talking about me some of us have have been on the internet longer than most people on here have been alive so people like me have seen hundreds possibly thousands of examples of people being unreasonable and delusional if your talking about the other person then it is possible an Ai came up with the stuff in that sonic thread but it wouldn’t surprise me if a human did it (And before someone possibly says *hey your KZbin account is only 10 years old* yes this one is but I have another one I haven’t used in like 8 years or so that’s much older)

[@samcandles]

@@oOSonicexeOo 💀

[@Blazio]

Nono this is definitely a real person, I see a ton of it with these "trends/threads" on tiktok that are all completely incomprehensible and are usually made by teenage girls

[@BlueOrco]

The first one looked like it could have been an honest mistake, but then they just kept getting worse...

[@bcrossfire1219]

Describes AI art pretty well.

[@PokeMario-pk4ot]

The movie one could've been a mistake as well, but the rest makes you wonder how it could slip through

[@BrandonVout]

The first one at least had the right game, albeit a port. Its only mistake was calling it 8-bit instead of 16-bit.

[@MySnugglePuppy]

What makes the official Sonic account saying “what are you doing” so funny is the fact that despite all of the awful fake conversations that brand accounts usually have you can just tell that this is completely genuine.

[@Geneolgia]

It's baffling how they skipped from 2006 directly to 2018, even though the early 2010s is the period of time which saw a lot of original mobile games and ports for Android, all of them found in Google Play.

[@genericname2747]

I just know the person who runs Sonics Twitter was sitting in their chair a few minutes, trying to think of a proper response before they just gave up

[@islippedtheslime]

I also thought it was entirely weird that they skipped over the Dreamcast era and generations. Those two things are integral to Sonic’s history

[@PokeMario-pk4ot]

All of this, and they forgot to include the one section that could actually be relevant to their brand

[@ChaosRayZero]

@@genericname2747 " trying to think of a *proper response" a **witty* response If you've ever seen anything that comes out of that Twitter account, you KNOW they were there to make a joke. That said, even the simple _"what are you doing"_ was funny enough! 😆

[@CraitMerc]

This video depicts the gaming KZbinr "Scott the Woz" discussing the 2022 video game "Super Mario Bros." for the Sega Saturn.

[@neptuneash4617]

*Readers added context they thought people might want to know*

[@TheKintin23]

@@neptuneash4617 Ominous.

[@romeokukita277]

Wrong, this is the SMB rerelase for the leapster

[@KrimsonKattYT]

@@romeokukita277 Sonic 3 and Knuckles actually got a port on the Didj (leapster competitor) that was literally just Sonic 3 but without lives, but if you died you had to answer a simple math problem and if you got it wrong you got an instant game over. If you got it right you instantly revived. Very bizarre. There was also an exclusive Sonic game on Leapster made for babies themed around the 4kids dub of Sonic X that used bizzare combo sprites from Sonic 3 and Sonic Advance and weird MS Paint original sprites. It was also Mike Pollock's first role as Dr Eggman in a video game since Sonic X on Leapster released a few months BEFORE Sonic Rush and Shadow the Hedgehog.

[@smae98]

SCOTT MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯

[@CrashingThunder]

This is definitely one of those moments where you wish you could be a fly on the wall where these decisions are made

[@DonnieTheGuy]

does chatgpt have walls

[@MrMoon-hy6pn]

@@DonnieTheGuyif anything they would’ve used Bard/Gemini/Capricorn what ever it’s called now, or any of their other in house ml tools.

[@ThatKidBobo]

@@MrMoon-hy6pn Which confuses me deeply, because I'm sure Google's AI knows this shit better than whoever wrote these posts.

[@Monochrome2004]

@@ckorp666 imma be honest this the type of shit i could see someone doing as a shitpost. weird ass captions and all the information just dead wrong. the only reason i dont immediatedly jump to that conclusion is because this is a like an official twitter page from google of all things, so i doubt they would be shitposting

[@tornadoawe]

@@Monochrome2004 Like, if they did this at the *start* of the month? actually pretty funny April Fools gag. ... why the 27th of April, though?

[@adrianporter5749]

Can confirm that the Sonic Boom photo is an AI “enhanced” photo. Other characters have been removed and these strange clouds are in their place. They even edited out part of the ACTUAL clouds that were behind him. A shadow (not Shadow, a shadow) was cast on Sonic in that image and now that has weirdly been made lighter. And yes, this is 2014, not 1993.

[@joutakujo9773]

OKAY, THANK YOU! I felt like I was going crazy with how awful the image felt.

[@GoodGirlPeruru]

I KNEW IT FELT OFF

[@PepsiJCrazyfcker]

yeah some body parts are more curved for some reason

[@elianhg2144]

Just look at his quills

[@adrianporter5749]

@@elianhg2144 believe it or not, that’s how his quills look in that scene.

[@Fuhiro3]

1991 Arlo. The thumbnail? Rotund. Husky. 1080p glory.

[@variumi]

1993 Arlo: Bright red fur, quite the contrarian! 🤭

[@KhrektheDrek]

This sounds like the activation code for a sleeper agent lol

[@ghostyc04]

​@@variumi 2000 Arlo. Ok, short king 🤴👏😏

[@PiousMoltar]

@@variumi 1902 Arlo: He's 4D again! In this classic 2d sidescroller. It was a box office hit in the theaters!

[@mr.s4ndman]

Bro😭😭😭😭

[@FungiGamer]

Bit of a poetic irony for Sonic to break a machine, huh?

[@AdventuresAwait123]

lol

[@SkateTroe]

Best comment X’D

[@RollingCutter]

W comment

[@Danominator]

The machine was already broken lol

[@ChaosRayZero]

That took me a moment, but once I got it _I actually burst out laughing!_ 🤣 Congrats on being the first person to make me "literally LOL" today! 👏🏆

[@amateraceon5202]

The funniest thing about this thread is the very first post picturing Sonic 1 and calling it 8-bit

[@Poyomini]

The best part is that 8-bit Sonic DOES exist officially on the Master System and Game Gear. They borked everything in here, and I love this thread so, so, so much...

[@Gloomdrake]

The funniest thing is a “youngest to oldest” thread being arranged from oldest to youngest

[@mr.jitterspam9552]

​@@Gloomdrakei think it means "as you scroll the franchise gets older" since sonic (the franchise) was much older in 2006 than in 1993

[@nomuru2d]

Google Play makes a trainwreck of a Sonic thread, Sonic account goes "what are you doing", Google Play responds by DELETING THE THREAD. They forgot that the internet never forgets.

[@SmashCrafter321]

It has forever been cemented in history, on multiple sites, as one of the biggest brand social media disaster in years.

[@DerangedAngel10]

Calling Boom Sonic “Short King” Is incredibly ironic considering he’s the tallest version of Sonic.

[@samariathemaniac]

Yeah. He’s tall. Also, there are some things off with the picture compared to the screenshot. The clouds were cut out, and Sonic’s quills are further apart than in the Sonic Boom design and screenshot. And this is coming from someone who likes the Sonic Boom design.

[@theratman1997]

They Google Played Themselves

[@flameblastv5151]

Eyyyy yo see what you did

[@gameman250]

Comment of the day

[@siraaron4462]

Underated comment

[@theplayer1997]

😂

[@mrtrollnator123]

💀

[@bailey64]

Something that really comes across as AI is that the 'creator' of this list vaguely knew '2006' and 'Sonic' had a strong link but was unaware of what that could possibly be, so it just made something vague up. Since what are the odds that a human picked the year 2006 in particular yet makes no mention of Sonic 06?

[@thatoneguy9582]

i mean tbf they picked out 8 years over a 30ish year timespan it's reasonably like a 1/4 chance to have just been picked out randomly which very much isn't 0

[@Sponsie1000]

This was either written with AI or by an intern with a great idea to farm some clicks. Possibly both.

[@EditUnivers75]

Or an intern that had no clue what they were doing or what Sonic was.

[@spagheleton]

interns aren't allowed to post LOL, all these decisions are made by big teams of many people and we interns do not get to say anything no matter how out of touch their ideas are

[@Door227]

I feel like the social media guy was about to quit/be fired so he decided to go out with a bang

[@lancesmith8298]

@@Door227I’d totally believe that Corporate Brand Shitposters actually have ethical standards if the Steak’Um guy didn’t advertise their new property in goddamn Decentraland.

[@TheSomewareMan]

Either way, nobody was paid to write it

[@SdudyoyO]

This post managed to do something no other Twitter post has done, _unite the Sonic fanbase._ Every Sonic fan agrees that this was just a terrible post.

[@gn2677]

The last time the fandom was this united was the Genshin- frontiers war back in 2022 but we don’t talk about that

[@ethanwebster3764]

@@gn2677Ah yes, when they got decimated

[@liz_violet]

@@gn2677 we don't talk about the mutual botting...

[@wootmasterzorsx]

Fun bit of an update- Google Play deleted the thread. Unfortunately for them, the thread is immortalized in videos all over mocking them for this. Just commit to the bit and make more threads we can lambast. I wanna see how they butcher Mario.

[@SmashCrafter321]

I would prefer we *don't* get another thread like this. We don't want to encourage this kinda behavior.

[@floppavevo5920]

​@SmashCrafter321 Tbh, I hope morr threads like this happen as it shows major companies that using AI will just get them laughed at.

[@JakeRanney]

Love how it jumps straight from 2006 to 2018

[@snake_eater1963]

skipped the dark ages

[@Dante...]

This one of the most "How do you do fellow kids?" moments I've ever seen lol.

[@RClipsGaming101]

I understood that reference.😂😂😂😂 (Shaffrillas Productions Megamind 2 is bad video)

[@Graphomite]

Ok short king 👏

[@TheSomewareMan]

?dO yOu HoW dO fELLoW HuMaNs¿

[@omargaming5688]

you know its bad when the *OFFICIAL* sega sonic the hedgehog account sees it and says "What are you doing"

[@officialtollilion6627]

It's even more bad when you know the official Sega Sonic the Hedgehog account is known for memes, jokes and overall shitposts that sometimes makes no sense. Even they were so stunned by this thread to a point they didn't even bother to make it into a joke lmao

[@onebear6504]

With no uppercase too, they can't even bother to pay attention to any grammar xD

[@Dustin_VG]

If Google needed somebody to ramble about Sonic on Twitter, I’m already doing it for free

[@tappydani9378]

Sadly, they don’t give a crap about Sonic, much less Sonic Trivia. Or anything besides the financial prize from leading the AI race, human connections and community be damned.

[@patrickbaillargeon1933]

Now I want Google Play to make an AI thread about Arlo through the years just to see just how catastrophically they're going to mess up everything. "Arlo in 2008. He is playing Paper Mario Color Splash and is having a great time. Look at him smile"

[@ogpandamonium]

Look at him smile 😊😊😊😊❤😂🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😢😂😂😢😅

[@Mepelip]

The AI would try generating the fluff on Arlo and end up outputting a very large, very blue mound of sludge

[@EMLtheViewer]

“2000. Ah, the new millennium brings new beginnings. Arlo left Sesame Street to pursue his KZbin career! 🎉 🎥”

[@rainpooper7088]

"Arlo (red king) started his Tiktok career by praising the intricate gameplay style and sharp satirical humor of Sticker Splash Mario: The Origami Jam"

[@cometaHavoc]

look how happy he. is

[@Ace_Maus]

I don't have a job; I'm a professional Copywriter specialized in advertising, especially online writing. Stuff like this makes me livid and disrespected.

[@BronzeAgePepper]

"Dead Internet Theory" is just what it says, it's only a the- ...Dear God

[@WohaoG]

A GAME THEORY

[@HealyHQ]

@@WohaoG THANKS FOR WATCHING.

[@roxygaming5968]

Ugh, this fearmongering only serves to make people depressed for no reason. Dead Internet is still a long way away from happening- for god's sake, at least 90% of this comment section is humans.

[@Laurzure]

​@@roxygaming5968are you sure? Sounds like something an AI would say...

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

If we're not afraid of doing something about it now while it's still just starting then it's going to be too late by the time we do something about it after it's happened ​@@roxygaming5968

[@emulationemperor8924]

At first I didn't think it was written by AI because none of the pictures were AI generated. But after Arlo went through most of the thread, it dawned on me that they might have just used some kind of API to pull images from an official sonic screenshot database (You wouldn't want any chance of pulling from deviantart). And just told it to write a quippy line commenting on each post and Sonic's progression through the years. That is exactly what this sounds like. Sonic goes 3D again? There had not been a prominent 2D release in a long time at that point. He was just staying 3D. It's just such a weird thread.

[@AphidKirby]

The sonic boom image is 100% AI generated, look at the scarf and the weird hip

[@emulationemperor8924]

@AphidKirby whoops, thought you said sonic prime for a moment. I'll have to double check the sonic boom image

[@Baconator2558]

Remember Sonic Hitchhiking Simulator? It's a pretty underrated classic.

[@spencers5898]

Pretty much the only thing that could have made this better is if the AI *had* started pulling images from DeviantArt.

[@bagelisdead]

​​@@AphidKirby saw another comment saying it was another screenshot that was -enhanced- edited by AI, like the Prime image. so maybe not generated, but the AI use is still clearly there.

[@Naxal710]

Man. As a sonic fan, I am both offended that the only thing this AI seemed to get right was that these are all indeed pictures of Sonic. But also, as a sonic fan, this is freaking HYSTERICAL!!!! Like, holy crap I needed a laugh like that!

[@ChaosRayZero]

Sonic also is _technically_ a "short king," isn't he? I mean, there's no official height chart, but Sonic X and the first live action movie both depicted him as _smaller than a human CHILD._ I don't remember if there were any kid NPCs in Sonic Adventure, but the adult humans kicking around Station Square were also taller than Sonic, if I recall. Sure, Boom is the tallest-looking Sonic design, but being _the tallest short guy_ might not stop you from being considered short. 😋 Hedgehogs are tiny, including Sonic and friends. *TL;DR - It was also right about Sonic being short.* 😆

[@birdgamer7641]

Dude I can’t stop laughing. “Ok, short king” is going to be my new favorite catchphrase.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

It wasn’t written by AI. It was written by Sonic Boom’s Knuckles. Approved!

[@CoraCreates]

It’s been a while since I thought that meme was funny. Meme approved.

[@spamtonspamton3403]

Denied

[@nexter87934]

*reads the text* *put his lecture glasses on* "Oh yeah, I can't read"

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@spamtonspamton3403 _Not_ cool, Sonic!

[@Animefan8050]

Google Play after not posting in two weeks: "No, it's now illegal to make A.I threads."

[@Sir_Quirrel]

I remember visiting this thread and so many replies were just straight up insulting. One person was asking for the $25 they spent on a google product back and the funniest thing was that the Google Play account was responding to most of them, utterly clueless🤣.

[@fuzzydude64]

I feel like that's another flag for AI usage, an AI wouldn't get that and would just keep replying as if nothing was wrong.

[@Hithere-uz6wd]

Why would google have an AI thats capable of responding on twitter

[@warriorseamonkey1693]

This thread made me feel like i was having a stroke

[@kingsmithgaming8726]

The fact that Sonic the Hedgehog himself replied to this thread completely flabbergasted is hilarious

[@ThatKidBobo]

The fact that these even contradict information found on Google Play ITSELF is amazing.

[@camo6465]

3:43 “I’m not even Sonic fan enough to know what that means” Um… *I AM* a Sonic fan and not even *I* know what that means!

[@GUNUFofficial]

Mschf boots where a clothes trend that HAVENT BEEN RELEVENT IN 2 YEARS!

[@Artista_Frustrado]

thing is, there's enough Google Play products featuring Sonic you could have made an actual List & promote your AppStore, but that would require a human that actually gets paid

[@stardown77]

Interestingly enough, Google Play has since deleted their Sonic thread. They still haven't posted anything since then and it's been over a week.

[@hidden_block]

the social media manager probably just got killed by an exec for posting that thread.

[@jasond.b-w]

Two weeks now! And I couldn’t be more excited, because now we’re guaranteed another disaster in the future. Whether they choose to admit it was AI, make excuses, apologize vaguely without addressing what happened at all, completely ignore it and just start posting ads again, or whatever else exists in between, people are going to shred it to PIECES all over again and I genuinely can’t wait

[@LoneSpeedsterDX]

the best part of this thread is how the official Sonic account replied and cooked them LOL

[@ohno5559]

The use of Boom Sonic makes me think this was an intentional joke

[@jameslawrenson1208]

That version of Sonic IS the funniest.

[@titanic_monarch796]

It's the release date of sonic boom (the song) so it's likely not

[@TownDarling]

@@titanic_monarch796 yeah this was 100% an ai-generated thread

[@GreyRush]

You'd think that BUT that image of sonic boom sonic has been altered by AI, or recreated, as the colors are off from the shot of the show its taken from, with the background completely edited out.

[@ohno5559]

I dunno this just all feels like a joke playing off Sonic fans' propensity to correct people and argue online. These don't seem like the kind of mistakes GPT would make, usually it's pretty good at describing past events because it can basically copy Wikipedia. Plus, the fact that literally every single one is wrong points to it being a joke. If one or two of the descriptions were nonsense and the rest were just boring but true summaries of the history of Sonic, I'd be more inclined to believe it was AI. I'm not some big AI cheerleader but to me the inaccuracies here don't line up with something you'd expect from AI generated content. The flaws of AI generated text tend to be that it's repetitive and derivative, and it gets the little things right for the most part but falls apart when you consider the large-scale structure.

[@variumi]

Calling the boom design a short king when people were making memes around the time it was revealed about how lanky he was is very funny

[@Wublingify]

i’m 99% sure they used AI for the Sonic Boom image too. like, not only did they use the wrong Sonic for the year, but it is not even actual art from Sonic Boom media. there’s so much subtle wonkiness in the way he looks, plus the weird cloud background

[@Nakia11798]

It's possibly a weird in-between, but you could be right.

[@floppavevo5920]

I'm pretty sure they used AI to remove background characters and details from the original image. As if photoshopping a prominent character in an image is something that should be difficult for a multi-trillion dollar company.

[@ShockInazuma]

“He's not even short” I don’t know, a human could easily punt him if he allowed them to.

[@douglewis7946]

I saw the "8-bit Sonic" post and DESPERATELY wanted to find that old "Reach For the Stars NES Edition" meme (I think from one of the Sonic Compilations?), bit not I can't find it ANYWHERE. Google isn't even giving me VAGUELY relevant search results. I feel like I'm being gaslit.

[@ItsCosmoTewulf]

Have you tried putting "before:2023" in your Google searches? Google has been completely dropping the ball when it comes to their recent search results lately, so maybe that might help.

[@RichzardStudios]

I don't even like Sonic but even I knew this thread was completely wrong

[@paperdawn]

I was in an absolute laughing fit reading this thread the other day. It's so absurd.

[@AranMTesta]

hi paperdawn

[@paperdawn]

@@AranMTesta hi AranMTesta

[@thevioletbee5879]

Hell ye paperdawn

[@jakery1048]

Omg hi paperdawn!!!!

[@zack-pn6oe]

An intern went "We dont need the social media department, look at my AI creation" and did this lol

[@Pogüiro]

Or rather someone said "We need the social media department, look at my AI creation"

[@kami_in_the_skye]

*executive

[@Crow_Rising]

If it's AI it's just adding fuel to the fire that we should not be replacing real human beings entirely, if it's not AI it just shows that they have no idea what they are talking about and do not care. Either way, this is about as soulless and corporate as it gets.

[@DjDeadpig]

Someone at Google is tripping some serious balls. Perhaps they found Eggman’s weed supplier.

[@yakumorisuke9403]

After the scare of the past couple of years, it's nice to discover that the AI apocalypse is still a little way off.

[@gn2677]

Honestly I welcome the ai overlords however if they’re speaking like this I don’t want them anymore

[@Epicccccccccccccccccccc]

@@gn2677”hey humans! 😁 we are here to make you not have to work 🎉🥳”

[@aliasella488]

Unfortunately AI cannot comprehend that it is wrong

[@gn2677]

@@aliasella488 true that just means we have reprogram them ourselves I’m not about to let myself get replaced this incoherent mess If I’m going to be replaced it at least has someone with a decent intelligence

[@surfboy87]

What's even weirder is that AI hasn't been this bad in a while. If you ask chatGPT to do this exact thing, it would do a much better job. Maybe google is working on a more primitive in-house AI and is using their twitter account with 7.5 million followers to test it out?? That's even more baffling. I have no answers. It's hilarious though

[@PeeperSnail]

There’s some models that have begun a process of “inbreeding” since there’s so much AI garbage content online that they’ve begun to scrape content that’s not made by humans. The results are the programs getting worse and worse, going back to incomprehensibility since they’re pulling from content that was already pretty nonsensical.

[@Doub1eSpark]

Even without AI inbreeding there's some people who put a single obviously wrong fact into written works online now just to trip up AI. The humans reading it and know it's a joke, but AI takes it as fact. It's the modern equivalent to map makers making up a town just to catch people who copy their stuff.

[@Geo-Global-oz5kl]

@@PeeperSnail Examples? Because if that's the case, I would be noticing it, since the culture has some weird hate boner for AI. Of course they have to conspiracy theory type garbage.

[@acksawblack]

The posts were written by some SEA outsourcing firm. Nothing to do with AI.

[@Loifey]

I mean I heard that AI don’t know anything past 2020 which could say something about the newer ones

[@andy-opia4306]

I love it when media people fail to accurately portray game media. Especially in TV shows. It’s so funny to just go “YOU ARE SO WRONG.”

[@bctalicorn809]

I literally could not control my laughter at the "ok, short king" reveal. That was amazing. Even I could not have predicted that they would call Boom Sonic, infamous for his tallness, a "short king"

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

Same lmfao I snorted like crazy hearing that. This has to be ai generated cause ain't no way😂

[@treddox5880]

8:32 I laughed SO hard when you said this, because it made it sound like you were talking about Sonic himself, as if he were real.

[@Emery_Pallas]

Intentionally incorrectly doesn’t mean utterly incomprehensible

[@Ursi_]

if sonic, then only hedgehog!

[@dawsond4123]

if { Sonic } else { Hedgehog }

[@Jethcon]

@@dawsond4123 if sonic then: hedgehog else: not sonic

[@romeokukita277]

​@@Jethcon If sonic.isSonic = true { hedgeHog = true; } else { file_delete("system32") }

[@wiquid]

@@Jethcon if (sonic) { hedgehog = true; } else { hedgehog = false; }

[@heroicgangster9981]

Sonic fan: Wow... Finally! A quiet day in the Sonic community. Google Play: Sonic...

[@gn2677]

The chance of there being a quiet day in the sonic community on twitter Is the same chance Twitter will stop finding pointless things to argue about 0.0000%

[@heroicgangster9981]

@@gn2677 gotta thumbs up that comment cuz yeah tru XD

[@davi_is_random]

i was half expecting the start of the thread to say: I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot make a post on X (formerly Twitter,) but I can give helpful suggestions.

[@GaryOakPR]

3:42 Apparently MSCHF boots aren't even a Sonic thing, they're just some weird and obscure brand of overpriced giant red rubber boots 💀 The website looks like its straight from the 90s, I have no idea how the AI even found MSCHF or knows what it is, I think it's own known as a niche brand within the fashion community.

[@prinxen1733]

*MSCHF isn't so much a fashion brand as a kind of... absurdist project "brand"? My introduction to the company was the free game Chair Simulator

[@soogymoogi]

The MSCHF boots are way more Yume Nikki shoes than they are Sonic shoes

[@LS95774]

OH those damn astro boy boots?? How does that look like Sonic?????

[@SonicMovie3HypeGuy]

It might actually be a human, because in 2020, Google Play tweeted a "Guess That Song" post where it had footage from Sonic 1. But the music wasn't from Sonic and it DIDN'T EVEN EXIST

[@TheDreadedZero]

11:02 the rabbit and mouse references are awesome. Sonic’s character design was originally a rabbit. And the game was originally called “project NeedleMouse”

[@Dad_Shoes]

That's actually been debunked by the creators. "Needle Mouse" is a direct transliteration of the word "hedgehog" in Japanese, with both words combined meaning hedgehog. His name was just 'Mr. Hedgehog'.

[@TheDreadedZero]

@@Dad_Shoes he was still referred to as NeedleMouse online for years. It’s not like it’s not a real thing

[@Dad_Shoes]

@@TheDreadedZero You're not wrong, I was just sharing.

[@acronym.4328]

Ah, yes. The needlemouse before some dead girl from 1963 came around.

[@TheDreadedZero]

@Jucei. it wasn’t just popular to fans. Like you said, that’s literally the name in Japanese. So that’s what they called it there.

[@nonomen6665]

I am obsessed with the line "Who needs running at the speed of light when you can hitchhike"

[@nicholaspeters9919]

Especially considering that Sonic’s top speed unaided is the speed of sound. Hence the name.

[@PringoOrSomething]

“Shadow what the fuck are you talking about?”

[@jmaldonado790]

This is like a more PG version of the Norm of the North Twitter account.

[@Dudeman23rd]

The best part is now people are bullying the account's automated response system in the replies by begging it for help

[@-Jimini-]

2024 TopicArlo? Ok short king 👏🏻

[@Bricktados]

this kinda reminds me of the old "i played 50 years of video games" thumbnail, but that wasn't made by an ai

[@Manahina1]

(I haven't fact checked this myself, so take this with a grain of salt.) Apparently, Google Play has been making these sonic posts since 2020, before AI was popular. This just confirms that aliens are real, since no human being is that disconnected from society, even after being told numerous times they were wrong.

[@extremmefan7305]

6:51 the part that hurts me the most as a Sonic fan in specifically THAT post? They call 2020 a "strange year" and to leave it behind ("let's leave it at that"), when 2020 was actually a resurgence year for the franchise with the first Sonic movie being one of the best products in the entire franchise and revitalizing a ton of hope and mainstream goodwill towards it. While for the average folk it was indeed a rough year, for the Sonic FRANCHISE it was a VERY GOOD one. (Oh, and of course, for once the design match the year... but the frame does not)

[@happyschniblie7459]

I just wanna throw my hat in the ring and say I absolutely love this channel! Just short topical videos about things you care about on a regular basis are AWESOME!

[@supersquirrels7]

Arlo, Sonic is coming for your title of the husky short king.

[@komaytoprime]

I think it was a cry for help from Google Play

[@Mephiles200108420]

If this is AI-made, then the most insidious part is that they didn't disclose that. Companies lying about things being made by humans is where a lot of the distrust comes from, and this isn't helping.

[@kingrocky7519]

Sonic going through a weird time in 2020 might just be the AI sourcing a lot of 2020 commentary and applying it to Sonic. Very strange.

[@ChaosRayZero]

"Use the force, Harry," Gandalf said calmly to Eggman.

[@Odd_Designz]

The way the pictures were also so obviously ai??? That sonic boom sonic is VERY wonky

[@IronBrandon22]

What immediately stood out to me is that all of the screenshots were either from Mobile ports of the games, or movies/shows from Netflix, Peacock, etc… Which are things on Google Play. TL;DR they’re basically abusing their rights to a small part of the Sonic brand for a publicity stunt. The long explanation is that all those images are from things that would need to be shown on Google Play, which likely means that they were only able to use these images without Sega intervening because they have advertising/marketing rights to the assets, which is usually added to any publishing contract because Google Play needs to use the assets given to them on their store for screenshots, featured lists, search results, ads, etc.

[@mafiaboss3077]

The worst part is getting all this wrong gets them so much more engagement than a thread that was fully accurate and had effort put into it

[@notveryniceatall]

Who cares

[@mr.x2567]

It’s not positive attention thoug

[@stolenalt]

I reckon Sonic would take "fast as lightning" as an insult.

[@CuppaGi]

A few of the images were AI generated too. The Sonic Boom image was AI generated, and the Sonic Prime "screenshot" seems to have been AI generated as well, using an existing screenshot as the base.

[@misfire33]

The AI commenting that "2018 Sonic looks weirdly like 90s Sonic" is so hilariously self-aware and yet not. It's like a Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan bit where he comments on his own mistake without realizing it was a mistake. "Would you mind telling me how the plant would function on -10,000 workers?" "I DUNNO CHRIS, YOU TELL ME!"

[@Neopolitan_Ice_]

Speaking of ai photos was sonic boom Sonic's right arm always that allergic to his hip or am I tripping Been a while since I've seen sonic boom so I don't remember what the animation was like

[@InkVerseAnimation]

1993: "short king" Also sonic boom sonic: Is the tallest sonic

[@Ivytheherbert]

Google is one of the main pushers of AI pollution. I don't know what they were thinking because this absolutely puts a spotlight on how pathetic their product is.

[@MrHack4never]

At least they used official artwork, and not some of the more... _niche-oriented_ artwork

[@MowseChao]

I love that this channel lets you talk about goofy stuff like this

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Worth nothing that there was actually an 8-bit version of Sonic 1. I mean, that's definitely not it in the screenshot, but it does exist.

[@Cheesyfan.]

Kind of out of topic, but i do think the boom sonic image is ai generated. the clouds, and the bent leg. which probably proves that google play used ai.

[@ChipmunkiousD]

In the Sonic Prime image, they entirely decimated half of Big the Cat! I thought he was a building at first until I saw the one side of cheek fluff!

[@ShahroozSmith]

This just makes google more alien than Mark Zuckerberg.

[@RawrX32009]

He's a lizardman not an alien

[@ratmandraws]

I think sonic boom... I mean umm 1993 short king sonic... Might have been ai "enhanced" too judging by the weird space between the hand on the left and his hip, the backwards curve of his leg and the one jacked-up iris 🤨

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

Arlo: I think it's AI Me: How could you be sure? Me, a minute later: Oh...

[@ChadWSmith]

"What even is Sonic? Is this some kind of rabbit?!?" - Arlo, 2024

[@BritBox777]

There have been some projects for automated, timed AI content (usually photos and captions) cropping up since January of 2023 in that tech sphere (that I saw). This is most certainly Google testing if they can get away with letting the genie out of the bottle.

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

Even if they did label them correctly, he's getting younger and younger, not older and older.