Sonic fan animations TRAUMATIZED a generation

[@Shunks]

SONIC SHORTS 9: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH3Smml-jsiqqJosi=_SMZdCHLMibcFRUf

[@yoshihomie49]

just watched the premiere. congrats to you and the vas on being apart of the sonic shorts comeback!

[@Animated_Matty]

Your short was my favorite one on sonic shorts 9

[@Cowboycomando54]

Saw it and honestly thought it was meh, most the short's jokes fell flat and seemed like they were playing it too safe. It felt watered down compared to previous volumes.

[@Sonicthehedgeholol]

Hi man

[@mandrakeblake-tw1uv]

You forgot : •Euvoria's Sonic Animations •Mephiles VS Tails Doll ( 1 - 3 ) •Sonic VS Mario The Epic Battle •The Origin of Sonic.Exe •Sonadow I Hate Everything About You •Shadow x Shrek Every Time we Touch AMV •Silver's Nightmare •HOW 2 DRAW SANIC The following are not videos but are pieces of Sonic content people saw when small : •Project Love Potion Disaster X •Locofuria's Sonic's TF's •Babysitting Cream Unknown Videos & Other Media which Idk who created them : •Hand drawn Rouge the werebat & Cream the wererabbit TF TG comic •Amy giantess comic alongside Rouge, Marine and other characters.

[@FlopsoTheClown]

i learnt what virginity was from a sonic animation when i was like 6 because i watched that specific short and asked my mother if virginity was like a drink or something

[@gemwolfz2860]

when i was a kid i thought being a virgin meant you'd never drank alcohol before... same brain waves i guess. To be fair they do call non-alcoholic cocktails "virgin" so

[@04sonicfangaming22]

​@@gemwolfz2860 Hopefully that was what the mom answered edit: I didn't expect 50+ likes

[@Appalachiosaurus22]

Once asked my Dad, in public surrounded by people, what orgy meant because I heard it in a Minecraft video. He just told me to shut up lol.

[@TheBlockyNCheesyfan]

Once i asked my mom what "rape" means because Minecraft animations and KZbinrs💀 I cant remember what she say to me, but the things she was saying was unrelated to rape means

[@NOUH-my9kq]

And that’s how we knew how it will stay with us forever

[@TealOpal]

You need to understand that as an 11-12 year old who liked Sonic and Dragon Ball Z, Nazo Unleashed was the coolest shit I'd ever seen

[@toekneemart5597]

What about super Mario Bros Z

[@cashbrady4074]

True

[@yannlefrenchycat8642]

@@toekneemart5597 That too

[@Jukestar]

@@toekneemart5597 SMBZ baybeeee

[@azimochaa]

Same, got into both around the same time, made 8 year old me extremely happy 😭

[@juliangandara9552]

Wanna hear a sad story? Ben Hurst, head writer of Sonic Satam, wanted to make a movie that would marked the end of the series, and told Ken Penders, but he told SEGA that Hurst wanted to take control of the franchise, causing Hurst to be fired. And to make things worse, after Ben Hurst's passing, Penders called him a sad fool for thinking that SEGA would give him permission to make a movie

[@coyotix]

Then also Ken Penders thought he could make a movie. HE was the sad fool all along

[@juliangandara9552]

​@@coyotixif you can't even draw Sonic and gang right, then you shouldn't make a movie

[@juliangandara9552]

​@@coyotixalso Ken Penders's work feels like something from Wattpad or a Deviantart fan cómic, not an official product. Penders is the original fanfic creator

[@coyotix]

@@juliangandara9552 Mhm, his short pitch video for his "movie" was somehow even worse animated than some of the early Newgrounds shit

[@juliangandara9552]

​@@coyotixOne more thing, Penders wanted to write a story in which Sally loses her virginity with a character named Geoffrey. A sex story in a kids cómic book

[@coyotix]

It's wild how these all have so much heart in them, yet half the time they're also "Guess who lost their virginity? YOU DID!"

[@redchan_ebooks]

I used to think virginity was a poison 😭

[@jaydenlenzy3487]

@@redchan_ebooksWhat’s next you’re gonna telling me you thought marriage was a food?

[@pixie_sprite]

I remember watching that short as a kid and honest to god thought that she put his virginity in the bottle and I didn't know what virginity was either

[@redchan_ebooks]

@@jaydenlenzy3487 I was like 5 or 6

[@Nombrenooriginal]

​@@jaydenlenzy3487 bro is goku lol

[@skyrimlover777]

I learned what gay people were from a sonic animation

[@omega6749]

I learned about gay people from a Family Guy episode.

[@Sleepster]

what was it called?

[@skyrimlover777]

@Sleepster I forgot which I think it was a sonic short poking fun at yaoi art between either sonic and tails or sonic and shadow. May not have been a sonic short but there was definitely one in there that did it. If I watch it and remember to, ill update the comment

[@hyperslash2144]

Was it the sonic x shadow one where they look themselves up?

[@not.sentinel.87]

Thought of Sonic goes to chaos high school

[@Rae0814]

I usually kept to the SFW side of the Sonic Fandom. I grew up on ‘Ask the Sonic Heroes’ (and still watch the videos) and I like ‘Sonic Villains Fan Film’.

[@soniclodeon]

Same

[@greenstarlover1]

Omg yes!

[@theonewithnogender]

I grew up on both sides. I enjoyed watching Sonicsong182's videos and fandubs of the Archie comics, while also stumbling upon the darker side of the fandom and seeing the more crude animations that would end up scarring me for the rest of my childhood.😞

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

Still waiting for Sonic Villains to come out. It looks great. I hope to god we get a complete BRAWL between Sonic and Super Scourge, if that does show up.

[@ThatOneGhostRat]

I was on both sides tbh i love sonicsong182

[@mascottism]

the thumbnail with sonic looking disgusted at his watch gave me terrible flashbacks from when i was 6 years old

[@lifegame9542]

Sonic shorts was quite....something

[@Sejikan]

And this is how I accidently discovered project love potion

[@Shunks]

I cant believe you just made me remember that 😢

[@TheRealZXXZ]

At least Zeta is doing other things atm

[@igorex04]

Same but i played it and enjoyed it

[@thefungang4191]

You WHAT

[@igorex04]

@@thefungang4191 you Heard me

[@voety]

i remember i was so hyperfixated on dorkly's sonic for hire, to the point where during the tails mob boss arc i had a dream where i was yoshi and i had a meeting with tails, and for some reason he started yelling at me for getting something wrong and then broke down crying. idk why thats a core memory for me, but it is :P

[@mazzy2282]

shunks, u are literally my favorite creator ever, we had basically the same childhood with what we watched and I connect to you so much, you bring me so much comfort thank you for being silly

[@gulfcoastgaming6034]

Sonic the Hedgehog. One of the greatest and most attractive characters ever thought up. He can run at sound speed, take out enemies in a flash, and best of all, he's blue colored and knows how to handle the females. Speaking of females, the Sonic universe might also be classified as "Hot Chick Heaven" because there's such a mess of very beautiful and tough women that it will make you love the franchise even more! And since Valentine's Day is around the corner, I've been inspired to make a top 10 list of the most beautiful female Sonic characters. Grab yourself a snack and a glass of orange juice, and try not to reach through the screen because HERE WE GO!

[@BrainPower3GS]

Amy is a 12 year old

[@mantheray6109]

@@BrainPower3GSthat’s a reference I think they know that

[@SaiyanPride123]

💀

[@Flinch9000]

That’s the top 10 video

[@zenna6000]

You are a fool to call sonic the hedgehog series a “hot chick heaven” Has your dumbass ever seen ONE PIECE the women there are PHENOMENAL

[@samten6080]

I learned everything from Sonic Zombies stereotypes, Boobs, the disturbing Fandom, and HOOBA DOOBA!

[@abrahamambriz892]

Sex-crazed Amy and Ikea Vector 😂

[@BookWormYuri]

I never understood what the hornhog meant by "doing" everyone. Not the most subtle jokes.

[@samten6080]

@BookWormYuri if l were you, the hornhog is... a bit...disturbing

[@seilvox]

I saw Nazo in the thumbnail and immediately had the nostalgia wave of the century, lol. Jee, I haven't thought of that in a while, but I remember being hype for it as a kid!

[@peachesncharlotte]

My first encounter of vore was from dubbed(?) Sonic comic videos on yt. I was like 7 and didnt even learn what vore rlly was till later 😭

[@Emma_The_H0ppin_H00ligan]

Bro i learned about it through MLP fanart on deviantart when i was like, 8

[@KKHell]

oh god, kphoria

[@stickymallet]

this was a very common experience. not good

[@M4N14C4L]

I had the same experience 💀 But it was animated Blame unrestricted internet access

[@peachesncharlotte]

@@KKHell YES! This should NOT have been a common childhood experience 😭

[@Shroomerdoob7]

Sonic vs Mlp trauma contest, who winning?

[@joshuagonzalez4183]

definitely mlp ‘-‘😔

[@beans3977]

Mlp is because pony.mov exists

[@dr.mixer8930]

Mlp

[@greenstarlover1]

No one

[@Snickritz]

Yes

[@fadedflop]

The 2008-2013 sonic internet era was a wild but beautiful time to be a kid

[@LiliVonCute]

My neurodivergent self loves repetition so the sonic zombie saga was perfect for me!

[@namuwonderlingYT]

Same here!

[@Crackbimbo]

Me too as autism

[@lordtheodore13]

I remember being one of the kids with unrestricted internet access who didn't get any of the sex jokes. First time I've seen someone talk about animations I saw as a kid other than Brawl Taunts.

[@sonicultimateyt1090]

BIG GAY DANCE

[@VideoGameFan23]

You're not the only one.

[@Flinch9000]

MLP 🤝 Sonic Both traumatizing generations and fans since the 2010’s (But are much more tame nowadays Small note: I was very off on this. But, I gave an attempt.

[@Krusty_bot63]

And both of their fandoms being stereotyped as being utterly insane

[@Flinch9000]

@@Krusty_bot63 There are good people within the fandoms. You just have to look for ‘em.

[@NickMario1]

I was into both of them back in the early 2010s lol

[@Zachdude123]

What about all those weird Pokemon animations

[@Cowboycomando54]

"Much more tame nowadays", you sure about that bud?

[@mc.cheese6239]

BABE WAKE UP SHUNKS VIDEO JUST DROPPED

[@Barakon]

The thumbnail already brings back memories… The fat jiggles & skin folds still haunt me.

[@dereynharris9240]

Fr lmfaoo

[@legoferrari14]

DON'T REMIND ME!!!

[@ninlaw9810]

YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT

[@pos_myra]

SAME GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@palookadventures5694]

This video makes for a fairly good companion piece to wallaceprower's recent (as in a couple hours difference) interview with the Sonic Paradox team members! Said interview covers their general history and rise to prominence, while this video observes the works released by fans since said team's formation, regardless of association. Also, perhaps I heard wrong, but congrats Shunks on being able to contribute to S.Shorts Vol. 9! I sincerely can't believe it's been so long since the last volume was released, and I'm excited to see what's in store.

[@NickMario1]

Man I still remember all of the early 2010s sonic animations and artworks, what a crazy time period that was, not just for the Sonic fandom but many fandoms in general at the time tbh like Mario, MLP, Minecraft and so much more

[@moonflower6607]

Hetalia

[@KhakiCap]

I thank all the old Sonic fan animations and their animators for teaching me English language better than my Elementary school did. You have done well, fellas.

[@JumperTV33]

First off, I wish I had a massive playlist with everything you just mentioned in order, just for my convenience. Second, I was very much entertained by everything. I watched Sonic Zombies recently while binging all of Balena Productions. I never saw it as a kid but I found it incredibly funny even now. It’s a time capsule of the era and I’m sad that some scenes and jokes were cut for modern audiences. I’m glad you made this video and it was a wonderful way to celebrate Sonic’s 33rd Birthday. This dating my comment, lol. Hello Future people if you see this!

[@REDTREERED]

and you can't imagine how excited I was once you mentioned olgilvie, I love this guy without taking style into account, the animation itself is sooo well done

[@raelogan]

Fun little fact: A friend of mine made a little re-cut and re-dub of the Nazo cartoon of the DX cut, and I got to make the logo for that video.

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

Three of the Sonic Paradox shorts I remember VIVIDLY were both REALLY early internet in multiple ways. -A parody of the Sally robot episode, specifically the "funny kiss" scene. It was strangely well animated. -Tails doll credits scene that scared the shit out of me. -How to make a Sonic OC, featuring Trevor-I mean Jesus.

[@lrgogo1517]

Oh, you mean the one where you had to click on the Doll to make him continue the monologue? I remember begging my brother to stop clicking from across the room…

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

@@lrgogo1517 That one scared the shit out of me the first time. Especially since it was with the creepiest style.

[@m0thgh0st]

I used to avoid sonic shorts as a kid cause I couldn't remember which one had the tails doll credits scene in it and it scared me so bad

[@Leeloo-Foxx]

i remember the funny kiss scene. and the fact someone actually made the actual sex part of the joke a reality somewhere. the internet has ruined so many sonic fans.

[@RoseyStar24]

The Paint It Black animation is still one of my favorite pieces of Sonic fan media to this day. I'm so glad you mentioned it!

[@twindrill2852]

That “funny kiss” one is actually extremely horrifying when you realize that Tails is a kid. I also “fondly” remember the OC making one, if not how mean spirited it felt while “predicting” Forces’ character creation in a sense.

[@sketchanimations7464]

I grew up on this stuff and I have no regrets. One sonic animation that I used to watch that wasn’t listed was Sonic Halloween costume. I won’t spoil anything. All in all, I am happy I watched these animations as a kid.

[@XxxAshHazardxxX]

Honestly the sonic fan animations didn't actually traumatized me except for that dancing eggman clip. *shudders*

[@jaydenlenzy3487]

It traumatized Sonic and Tails too

[@gscsilvavaladares7065]

The only thing that really mess with me is that short off sonic using the dash pannel the wrong way , oof , it still gives me chivers

[@jaydenlenzy3487]

@@gscsilvavaladares7065 I mean Sonic should have known better than to step on a moving platform without any form of momentum.

[@Elec.Balloon]

Pretty niche, but the one short that got me so much as a kid was the "How to make your own Sonic fan character" short. That had me googling for "Sonic pix", expecting some easy Sonic picture editing program to show up (I didn't know how to copy + paste images back then soo). Then I took up drawing, made about 14 recolors (four of them being recolors of Ray the flying squirrel). Most of my imagination would be dedicated to story/animation ideas of them until like, 2015 xD Well it was that one, or the Tails Doll credits but eh

[@R3DBIT]

When it said "we'll be right back", I got an actual ad, then it said "now we're back"

[@benisunoriginal]

Sonic Zombie Origins just straight up a nostalgia trip for me lol

[@CrazeVerse]

I saw vore for the first time through old sonic animations when I was super young

[@GhosOfTheMoon-hj9st]

Was it a hippo girl with light blue hair?

[@CrazeVerse]

@@GhosOfTheMoon-hj9st it was Amy eating sally

[@lovleybones1921]

sonic breaks his neck was definitely that one fan made Sonic video that made me uncomfortable back then

[@moonlightinthesky25]

I've noticed that more recent fan projects from fandoms like Sonic or MLP are kind of the opposite of these early animations in a way. Mashed's more recent Sonic animations, for example, are more accurate to the canon games in terms of tone and characterizations than most of these earlier animations that generally relied on shock/meta humor or the fandom's charcaterizations. MLP feels the same, with even the recent infection au trend feeling less like horror for the sake of shock, if that makes sense? Of course the fan projects then and now are full of creativity and talent from the people behind them, but I feel the culture then and now has changed drastically because the current fans grew up with the "edgier" content and are now making content that tend to be more lighthearted or at least stay truer to the source material despite the darker tone (in the case of the infection au versus something like Cupcakes lol) compared to back then. There's nothing inherently right or wrong with either, but I do find it an interesting contrast.

[@OrangeToadGamer]

These fan animations are core memories for me, and I wouldn't have it any other way

[@yusifudo46]

2:27 No. The joke wasn't that Sonic X was bad or Sonic fans didn't like it. It was that 4kids completely censored it, altered and deleted scenes rather unnecessarily, cut down episode runtimes, and neutered the original version of the show, along other foreign properties that the company heavily altered; Magical DoReMe, Mew Mew Power, Shaman King, Winx Club, and don't get us started with the infamous story of their One Piece dub or their version of Dragon Ball Kai. Characters were saying lines the game counterparts would never say or just had their motives changed, they changed plotlines of some episodes entirely, greatly downplayed elements of the show like Amy's love for Sonic by making it one sided and Chris's trauma and abandonment issues were handled poorly in the dub (which led to most Sonic fans unfairly judging him harshly), and removed the real OST of the show completely for the same OST they used in all their other shows on their block.

[@Asta-Staria16]

Oh yeah that reminds me In the original Japanese Version don’t the characters like actually swear at each other?

[@yusifudo46]

@@Asta-Staria16 Yeah, I decent amount. They even censored important moments like Molly's death and made fights like how Shadow vs Knuckles was in the Metarex season seem like more of a wash than what happened in the actual version.

[@moonadoo1006]

2:19 WHEN I was a kid I thought virginity was a fluid and that the bottle was said fluid

[@CynicTV]

it's still crazy to me how the guy that did Nazo Unleashed animated the sonic paradox fan character creation animation, never would've expected that

[@LegionOfWorldWarriors]

"Hasn't aged well. Doesn't hold up by today's standards." *DUDE!* That what makes old media fun! Aspects of what made lots of these animations old are what made them fun and charming! Even if they did remake stuff like Sonic vs. Jaws, I forever prefer the original because sometimes remakes suck out the soul and charm of the originals. Screw modern standards, really.

[@RealSupreme-s6k]

when sonic made shadow eat his words it was peak humor

[@RealSupreme-s6k]

sonic for hire wa also iconic to me

[@mysteryman9488]

Traumatised? Hardly, those where fun as hell xD

[@lebest3062]

The new generation is soft.

[@mysteryman9488]

@@lebest3062 Compared to other fandoms in newsgrounds, the Sonic stuff was actually pretty tame in comparison hell I still miss that era of the community xD.

[@sonicultimateyt1090]

@@mysteryman9488 THERE'S WORSE!?!?

[@charlyalexlug8411]

Facts, I grew up with these and for me this was Sonic.

[@daddad9978]

Agreed the new generation would like to painted anything that is considered to be normal and paint it as Traumatised

[@2DI0pictures]

Nazo Unleashed was PEAK as a kid. Also you remember the SSS Show with those Sonic sprites. (Specifically Leon the Snowwolf, & 12gameschamp21)

[@SpongeBob_912]

Dial L for Luigi and Sonic for hire go insanely hard for no reason, better than most netflix originals.

[@evergreentimberwolf8867]

I think it’s neat that I found you for your mlp videos and that the more I watched the more I aquatinted you as a “lore master” of the fandom. And then I’m whiplashed by a surprise animation of yours during sonic shorts VL9. Awesome.

[@pastel-ufos]

the sonic gmod stuff is reminding me of shadow579 in a weird way ahah, they werent usually animated but were silly little gmod stuff that i find super nostalgic

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

shadow759 was one of my first interactions with sonic fan content lol

[@pastel-ufos]

@@wavelengthrecords-1 same here! i mustve been 10-11 watching their old stuff

[@peacockcrowe2718]

Shadow759’s Christmas Carol videos were the first thing that I watched of his

[@NicoleFlores-hq5nh]

25:04 the one who animated the secret history of Sonic and Tails is named Zeurel, he's a talented animator who currently has an indie animated show on KZbin, made other projects with Mashed and collaborates with youtuber/streamer Lythero

[@AnimaAnimals]

holy shit the Sonic Paradox Shorts...i loved watching those animations when i was a kid

[@dalejhunter1]

Fun little fact about Sonic Paradox. The guys who did quite a few of those animations would go on to make their own fancomics. One being a retelling of Sonic's adventure from the beginning with OC Tempest the Dolphin as a main character for the first five issues. They currently are working their way through the Sonic 3 & Knuckles arc, with Cassia from Archie Sonic's reboot being a hero instead of a reluctant villain. Their other comic is a 'What-If' future in which Sonic had vanished one fateful day, leave the rest of the cast to age, some even getting married, and live out their lives in seeming peace... until a strange new hedgehog appears who looks an awful lot like Sonic. The first fancomic is called Sonic Legacy. I would recommend it, though much like any freelance fancomic, it is going to be taking its time with its story.

[@thelogannetwork]

Here goes people who’ve hasn’t experienced the internet until he was nine complaining about animations that were made for adults

[@thelogannetwork]

I watched a bit of the video and I’m here to say I thought they didn’t like the animations

[@KirbyProductions]

Fun fact: I was gonna make my own spin to Sonic goes to High school, changing the name to Emerald High, still using the same intro theme... and then never touching it again

[@PilloTheStar]

That one animation where sonic keeps waking up to increasingly worrying characters sharing a bed with him saying "what a nightmare" was literally my favorite thing ever when I was 11 years old.

[@sinfulpuritan3430]

I feel like early Sonic Zombies feels like watching a kid who heard about a bunch of inappropriate topics on the internet playing with sonic toys. That's probably why I liked it so much as a kid. Being left with unrestricted internet access made me one of those kids. 😭

[@Seannemal]

I had an insane fat crush on nazo as a kid it wasn’t funny I genuinely thought he was a real sonic character

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

nastywork💀

[@NickMario1]

Oh

[@Seannemal]

@@AtypicalDunmer good to know I wasn’t the only one lol

[@emred4653]

sonic shorts unironically helped me learn english better by motivating me. Now im working on a translation and interpreting masters with thesis

[@moonwarrior3342]

Ah yes, all of those old Sonic animations on New Grounds. To me I would just burst out laughing since I stumbled upon them around when I was 15 losing it to some of the more unhinged ones like the Sonic Glitched series or Sonic and the McChicken. ( grade A shitpost back then. )

[@deltaace6426]

You’ll never understand the hype behind seeing Shadic for the first time as a kid🤷🏾‍♂️ that’s just a fact now

[@renamon5658]

Sonic fan made stuff is weird but fun

[@Ilaiyuka]

I’m pretty sure Faulerro voiced Knuckles a lot in sonic shorts. He’s also the voice of Yamcha in DBZA :D

[@misscalicogirl]

sonic uncut was my entire childhood 😭 i remember watching it around 2009 and i would go to school and infodump to my friends about it

[@aidenatorx99]

Sonic Numa Numa was one of, if not the first sonic animation I ever saw on KZbin and I wouldn’t have it any other way

[@demonicaturner]

Balenaproductions are the goat of Sonic Fan shows. Being in 4-5 grade watching Sonic Zombie, it was so dumb, but it was so good 😭. Though a lot of the stuff from the original was cut out cause of either copyright or because the jokes were over the line, like there was a joke in the space episode where Eggman was like, 'WHERE ARE MY HORNHOGS?!' And a Silver clone was like 'the hornhogs are busy graping each other' to which it would show the hornhogs humping eachother. If you watch the show now, you can't find the jokes, but if you watch old reaction videos, you can still find them. And another, which now I understand why he got rid of this joke, but the ship episode has a joke where Knuckles has a thing for Espio and he wants to sit on his horn, and later they actually agree to do the dirty and this joke is no longer in the video, but Espio tells Knuckles to let his dress up for him, and when he tells Knuckles he's ready, you see Espio with two watermelons as boobs and a KFC bucket around his crotch, I didn't get it at the time but that was a black stereotype joke cause Knuckles was given an Eddie Murphy voice and was referred to as black in some parts of the show.

[@Darkcallan]

Most of these animation channels marked my childhood! Thanks to them I'm becoming an animator too!

[@obsessivefrog]

Help you just unlocked a forgotten memory of mine where I showed sonic numa numa to to my whole class during music class

[@meth_raccoon]

The shorts are how I discovered the existence of Scourge and I'll forever be grateful for that. 'Paint It Black" Shadow is also a hood classic

[@DUCK_T0PIA]

Yeah Sonic for Hire mentioned! I rewatched it mostly for Earthworm Jim and the little Psycrow cameo but I forgot how much of fun watch it really was !

[@Scoober-km8kk]

"Color" is spelled as "Colour" because that's the Canadian way of spelling it.

[@borederlands5387]

I'm a bit too old to remember most of the early 2010s stuff in this video, but the flash animations really had a hold on me and probably traumatized me in some way

[@SCHERZOGREY]

god i'm so fucking tired of the "guys, seeing something somewhat unsettling online at a young age LITERALLY TRAUMATIZED ME guys" joke.

[@CollegeKidd]

True, trauma is treated like a buzzword thrown into every slightly uncomfortable/unusual situations. As a traumatized individual who suffered from every kind of domestic abuse, I have every right to "gatekeep" this term as people overused it to the point it lost its serious meaning.

[@L0rdOfThePies]

The use of the word trauma has expanded in recent years, probably due to hyperbole

[@sonicultimateyt1090]

@@CollegeKiddnuh uh

[@Cowboycomando54]

For real, it come across as some hyper ironic hipster who is super entitled trying to make them selves sound unique and special, when they only come across as weak minded and pathetic.

[@uwu-bebs]

Yes and no. There are different traumas, all weighing differently. Sure seeing some overly shrexual jokes or gore as a kid isn't the same as abuse, but it can be traumatising either way.

[@toffiie]

as a very young kid i used to watch "sonic eats amy" and stuff like that. i realized it was vore years later. oh well

[@judahnorman7727]

3:44 I saw the “Funny Kiss” short and thought maybe Sally just told Tails a scary bedtime story using a lit match or something, only to learn years later that…umm…they did the, uh…you know what? I dare not say it. Tails is literally eight years old, guys…I just…I need to go to sleep…

[@dariendude17]

26:53 Its pronounced "OH-GILL-VEE" by the way. A reference to when the Archie comics implied that that it is Sonic's real name.

[@lewisstrongofficial]

I can’t thank you enough for making this. Such a throwback and I can’t believe how many of these I forgot about..

[@greenprimevabby]

When I was WAY younger, maybe 10 or 11, I remember stumbling across this web series called "Sonic GX" At least, im pretty sure thats the name. It was kind of a sequel series to the SATAM show as well as Sonic X cuz it brought the freedom fighters into the Sonic X continuity. It was animated via pixel art, in the same vain as Super Mario Bros X. I remember being super invested as a kid and super pissed cuz it all ended with a cliff hanger. I haven't even THOUGHT about this series until now, this video unlocked a memory.

[@SaddieMoon]

I wish you mentioned that Scourge appeared in the final episode of Sonic Zombies. Not because he was special in Zombies, but because it’s Scourge.

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

I almost forgot some of these animations.... kinda wish it stayed away from my brain ngl lol

[@SaddieMoon]

25:18 Clarification: Obviously “Dark Tails” is Secret History Tails. And yes, Something about Knuckles is related to the Something About Amy/Secret History lore.

[@The_Real_Raidou]

Watching those videos as a kid really made me glad that I was a man of God and not Sonic. What people did to that poor bat…

[@bestwitch4414]

It took me until this video to notice that in the Sally and tails clip,sonic is under the bed WHAT

[@azimuddin1890]

Sonic Shorts and others from 2010 - 2014 are nostalgic.

[@demimuilenburg5036]

These animations always felt like a fever dream when i was growing up, i always thought i was the only one that knew they existed

[@creamery299]

The only thing that traumatizes Sonic fans is Forces... OH GOD

[@lautarogomez9711]

well not for me, for i already have my mind destroyed by the worst fanfiction ever made which involes sonic, one that the game grumps already covered..... Sonic Ultimate Harem

[@josuebarba9361]

These are the same fans that complain about 06 anniversary being remarked as negative, while they go about complaining about a mid game... Just stop

[@glowdonk]

Sonic Shorts ingrained "Chaos Swissroll" into my mind to the point every Swiss Roll I see instantly made me audibly say "CHAOS SWISS ROLL"

[@Morales3088]

It's actually impressive how mashed turned tails into one of the most terrifying and disturbing villains in the sonic fandom

[@Newtid]

i've thought for a while that "i wasn't really that into sonic as a kid" but this just unearthed a vault of buried memories

[@Valtronix_Sonic]

Tails being temporarily killed by Nazo scared the shit out of me when I was younger

[@normalichu]

Does anyone else remember that one animation where Sonic is... Huh... "Squeezing the hog", and Tails accidentally sees him? Yeah...

[@parmesanbrawler7183]

Was it the one where he's watching the video of the Star Fox gals stripping and after tails, knuckles comes in as well?

[@normalichu]

@@parmesanbrawler7183 Yes... That one

[@brokenbrocky]

i would'nt say they traumatized me, i would say they.... opened my eyes

[@paolaanimator]

I grew up on the internet and these shorts takes me back. Thanks for making this video!

[@trollsome]

The Shadow sneezing sonic shorts skit Predicted Covid

[@La_Win69]

Being a sonic fan is both a blessing, and a curse

[@keyboardkets379]

3:41 how can I forget this infamous animation 😭 I remember scrolling thought KZbin as a kid just searching "Sonic" that was kid me's first mistake. Old KZbin was a wild place.

[@Asta-Staria16]

As someone who sadly knows where that image of Rouge in the thumb nail comes from. I’m so glad you didn’t mention it at all in this video That shit was disgusting and deserves to be treated like it never happened I hate it for very personal reasons I won’t get into but I will say. I’m happy it’s not getting any acknowledgement

[@mikdan8813]

I once read all of Tails gets Trolled, and I honestly think I have become a worse human being since.

[@ZacharyMurray-xe8nu]

*better TGT is unironically good

[@mikdan8813]

@@ZacharyMurray-xe8nu at first it's a Shakespearean masterpiece, but it gets vile by the end

[@deadmeme7030]

5:59. I have the exact same experience. Years later still love the song.

[@blessingsoke8291]

You said it,sonic shorts were one of my introduction to the franchise.