The Bizarre Tumblr Saga of Sonic For Real Justice

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Today let's take a look at the bizarre, drama-fueled world of Sonic For Real Justice. Launching in 2015, the blog went viral not only for it's bizarre premise but for the constant infighting and arguing among mods, and has become well-known throughout the internet as a classic Tumblr tale of drama, scandal, love, loss and betrayal. Let's dive in!
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[@Izzzyzzz]

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[@kayliejmoore3996]

Could you do moviestarplanet?

[@chocomelo454]

Im sold I'll take their whole stock

[@Evycakez]

more tumblr soap operas pls!

[@Bicth97]

I think in the video you said mochi as "moe-key". It's pronounced moe-chee btw. Sorry I'm a Japanese major

[@mekman4]

This was brilliant! Great Stuff, as always!

[@horricule451]

"Am I going to hell?" "You sound annoying so yes" Literally one of the funniest conversations ever

[@callerunknown]

As a fictive, that interaction made me laugh my ass off

[@horricule451]

@@callerunknown weirdly thinking a lot about what the theological implications of fictives going to hell would be. If all the fictives in a system go to hell, does everyone else in the system go to hell or is it just the fictives? If different members of a system can go to different afterlives, do they have different souls or is it one soul shared by a bunch of different people? Is a system's soul like an Xbox where you have to beg mom for your turn to use it?

[@spiritsys]

​@@horricule451 as a system, yes our soul *is* like an Xbox /j that had me rolling

[@horricule451]

@@fudgysundaee you know nothing about anyone in this comments section. You have never met anyone in this comments section in real life and probably never will. You have no information about any of these people to go off of so assuming that they're faking it is extremely presumptuous. Do you think that's it's like literally impossible for someone to talk about their experiences with DID in a casual way instead of going "oh my god I am in agony my life is horrible and incomplete because I have been traumatized" 24/7 or are you so arrogant that you act like you know everything about people you've never met? For fuck's sake my man this ain't a video of some tiktok influencer pretending to switch in the middle of dancing to shitty music, this is some youtube comments with a couple of likes where someone went "yeah I'm a (common type of alter) and I found that to be funny" and then I made a joke about multiple people having to share one soul. That's... Remarkably banal. Where in any of this could you have possibly detected ill intent

[@spiritsys]

@@fudgysundaee okay first off, why the hell would anyone fake this disorder, it is literally a debilitating disability and not fun. Second off, OSDD EXISTS. third, go to therapy

[@maxgosselin62]

The idea of an anti-sjw blog made by teens who all identified somewhere in the LGBT matrix and were all larping as sonic characters is just so funny to me

[@mikuenjoyerXD]

Thanks for the explanation lol

[@2PRO_4U_2NO]

The LGBT Matrix? So the Matrix?

[@Fizzymilkshakee]

@@2PRO_4U_2NO the… gaytrix?

[@janevim11]

"banned for generally starting drama and being edgy" now thats something Id like to have on my tombstone

[@BagelBoyboss]

Same.

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Lol

[@XwX1001]

RIP in Peace Shiningstarbless: Banned from life for generally starting drama and being edgy. They will (probably) be missed.

[@lailaallen6285]

To be honest it been like that

[@LannyLeArtist]

😂😂

[@enough2715]

"I was trying not to look suspicious, dumbass. Our relationship attracts weird attention and I'm bicurious, anyways" why is this so iconic.

[@BierBart12]

It sounds exactly like a Sonic Real Time Fancub line

[@hesmeisay]

Wow, he’s bisexual! I didn’t know that.

[@cousinted]

The only way this could have been a better piece of internet performance art would be if they were simultaneously running an in-character pro-social justice Eggman ask blog that was 100% polite and drama-free.

[@MMumbles]

Imagine Dr. Eggman saying something like "yeah I think women should be paid equally" and leaving it at that, would be amazing.

[@WeebishSwed]

Isn't it part of Eggman's description in one of the game manuals that he's a feminist?

[@perro692]

@@WeebishSwed i heard that was a bit of a bug in translation because "feminist" in japanese means something like "ladies man"

[@trash_irl3314]

@@perro692 honestly thats still golden

[@gildanonofyabiznez6430]

@@perro692 A feminist ladies man

[@josiebianchi3481]

"Like I give a shit, I was spacekin anyways" is absolutely the STRONGEST power move I've ever witnessed

[@businessmudkip4548]

@@skrandelg someone who believes they are from space/half alien

[@maisiemaise5505]

shadow is honestly my favorite

[@mabelsan1133]

It's such an iconic moment 😂 the character who was the most "I don't care about these sensitive libs and their identities" going "I'm spacekin bye". Possibly the turning point of the whole saga

[@poisonedyoyo]

HOW DO YHOU TYPE A DISGUSTING WORD WITHOUT USING ASTERISK POUND SIGNS, EXCLAMATIONS POITNS. NEVER EVER TYPE THE ACUTAL WORD OR SAY IT EVEN IOF YOU'RE QUOTING SOMETHIN G. Disgusting people ont he INternet.

[@Fritz1105]

It was such a plot twist! He was the least likely anybody would expect to be spacekin!

[@sonictennyson2201]

Not gonna lie,Mod Silver being revealed as the mastermind behind it all was one of the best twists of all time alongside the killer reveal at the end of Scream.

[@niclasneziru1854]

Scream 1 is so good

[@Multi-Waves_Sketchbook]

I'm a tad sad KZbin gave me this as the second comment, but it's still hype reading this reveal

[@HeavenlyMercury2800]

Top 10 anime Betrayals

[@brasteryakintosh9418]

I think this is proof you can make really fun and compelling ARGs without any horror elements whatsoever

[@xqranon]

Yep.

[@nymphaea22]

there needs to be more non-horror/comedy args

[@8pierrot89]

Shout out to the Siivagunner Reboot ARG

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Horror ARG's are cool n all but we need more comedy ones

[@jackalobowaitthisnameistaken]

Hyperrealistic subtweeting

[@hityawiththepunktactics]

"I don't give a shit I'm space kin anyways" has got to be one of the most based statements of all time

[@jambove]

based and hogpilled

[@ashikjaman1940]

It's very real-time fandub like

[@vivictinimoved]

@@ashikjaman1940 😭

[@CoolBird420]

What the godamn is a "space-kin"?

[@thatoneguy9582]

@@ashikjaman1940 -Memphis Tennessee, probably

[@TheNixChan]

I honestly love this idea that this group of kids were hanging out in a Skype vc like 'guys guys guys wait, what if we turned him into DARK Sonic' and just having a good time with it

[@JuiceMade3603]

THATS SO FUNNY OMG

[@Fritz1105]

I wish me and my friends could do that

[@xroxannex3591]

Sounds like a thing me and my friends would do lol

[@Jovian12]

Exactly! Or one of them cracking up, the others hearing that they're typing a post, deathly curious what it's going to be...and then it's the banning of Knuckles for doing absolutely nothing.

[@02pinkdiva62]

i have this EXACT SAME FRIEND GROUP THAT DOES THIS KIND OF SHIT but with madness combat

[@TigeriPlaysGames]

I'll never forget the time i went to a con in a sonic cosplay while all this nonsense was happening and someone i didn't know shouted "justice for mod silver" at me

[@calicoreal]

I would cry if this happened to me

[@Gafafsg]

@@calicorealtears of sadness or joy

[@calicoreal]

@@Gafafsg All ofthem

[@SatyrToon]

"I relate to Shadow's hatred of humans!" Homie, his first video game appearance was him learning to see the good in humanity and wanting to protect it.

[@NebulaBubbles]

Mod Shadow really thought they ate 😂

[@honkstheclown8631]

​@@NebulaBubblesmod shadow DID eat

[@games_on_phone89]

yeah but i don't think sonic fans and conservatives are known for having a good level of media literacy, combine both and…

[@DevastatedLimes]

🤓

[@MHurley21]

Actually, they knew exactly what they were doing. Mod Shadow initially claimed to hate SJWs, but later came out against the mission of the blog, saying "I'm an SJW" which parallels Shadow's arc in SA2, from despising humanity to understanding the value of life so much that he sacrificed his own to protect it. That bit about being spacekin (which apparently means identifying as alien) is also golden because Shadow the Hedgehog _is_ part alien. Mod Shadow respected the lore.

[@taichifujisaki6695]

Damn, Amy really gaslight gatekeep girlbossed her way onto the throne within an entire week. No choice but to stan a problematic queen.

[@sciencey2858]

Love this comment. lol

[@supercoolaether]

Hello chihiros dad

[@superoriginalusername.]

I want to show this comment to a victorian child

[@Biotear]

@@superoriginalusername. I'm fairly certain their head would explode lol. I'm only 21 and I'M barely able to comprehend this shit lol.

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

@@superoriginalusername. they would die. you just killed a child.

[@Cybershell13]

I don't think this is canon to the games...

[@krxxc.kk6]

cybershell just be on 60% of videos I watch and i never expect it, kinda scary

[@sergiorubens8475]

Oh look its cybershell

[@NeoGraena]

The legend!

[@familyfun359]

Or is it?

[@killerbug05]

@@familyfun359 *vsauce theme*

[@marsherzberg1907]

"it was summer vacation and we were bored" reads like the end of some 80's movie. the saga is complete, they all grew up and got jobs, never to speak to each other again. it kind of puts things into perspective as a teenager with internet friends.

[@snail-teeth]

"It was summer vacation... and we were bored." *don't you forget about me starts playing*

[@possum2203]

A stand by me remake but they own the sfrj blog

[@catboymiles7224]

so yeah no thats not what happened. what happened was apparently worse 😐

[@dreaming-]

@@catboymiles7224 what

[@catboymiles7224]

@@dreaming- long story short it was revealed recently that the person who played the role of mod sonic grew up to be a creep and a shitty person to say the least

[@ravenousbear]

The reaction images really gave it away. Could you imagine having someone insult you and then scouring through dozens of images to find an obscure reaction images lmao

[@errortryagainlater4240]

That's still somehow better than trying to use Tumblr's broken-ass reaction gifs 💀

[@noizepusher7594]

To be fair, the people on 4chan do it all the time

[@eightbitfeline1415]

so discord?

[@JaraelMoonsilver]

You underestimate roleplayers lol

[@seal8092]

I was like, "Oh this must of happened in the span of several months!" But then Izzzyzzz said this happened in a week- *Like oh my god this the most highschool thing ever.*

[@bruhmoment5974]

*must have

[@seal8092]

@@bruhmoment5974 😑

[@burrito288]

@@bruhmoment5974 must of’ve*

[@arielithart2758]

Divine Comedy vibes✨

[@rachelflickinger102]

Izzy is straight up just out here flexing her PhD in internet history

[@nymthetyrant]

Wait that makes me wonder if someday in the future there might be people who actually study internet history. Oh my god

[@Penoatle]

What's up with people from the southern hemisphere and Internet talk? I like it.

[@colasupernova2196]

Izzy, Strange Aeons, and Whang are pretty much Internet archeologists.

[@wuvumgywgy]

@@nymthetyrant I'd totally try to get my PhD for it

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

@@nymthetyrant I guarantee you that right now there are at least thousands of people working on a sociology or anthropology thesis for a Ph.D - it's a vast new field of human interaction happening right in public and developing at an unprecedented speed. The only reason it isn't more popular is because in the 2-3 years it will take to put together a decent thesis the group of study will have probably mutated to the point you need to start a new one just to explain it. In small subcultures it ends up almost as live social archaeology.

[@uhcrinkle9787]

I so badly want no NEED a voice over with people who can imperssonate each character to read over these posts so I could listen to it like a podcast over and over again whenever I am sad because WOW this video improved my mood

[@jstarstudios7110]

I could do a passable Amy, I think...anyone else wanna jump on this?

[@BerryArmageddon]

The snapcube staff voicing this would be amazing

[@abstracttredd]

i’d so be down

[@-Cray0n-]

@@BerryArmageddon YESSSS

[@Sleepster]

@@BerryArmageddon YES

[@beatofromuminekorealnotcli4574]

it's just like wrestling. i knew it was scripted, but damn if i wasn't invested in the storyline.

[@NebulaBubbles]

reminds me of that one episode of south park where the kids make a wrestling show and Cartman dressed up as a girl

[@invadertech141]

why are you right actually wth@@NebulaBubbles

[@JohnDoe-uf3lj]

Surprised Eggman didn’t appear, considering he’s listed as a feminist in one game’s manual. But that was a mistranslation and he’s actually a womanizer? Both are hilarious 😂

[@AtOutoftheBlue]

IIRC feminist carries a different connotation in Japanese

[@nictomahawk7018]

How is Eggman a womanizer. I guarantee that no woman would want to sleep with his egg shaped ass, let alone have any kind of romantic relationship with him.

[@softandwet7584]

@@nictomahawk7018 he has money

[@WeebishSwed]

And then Knuckles came out as a feminist in the Sonic Boom cartoon.

[@Biotear]

@@WeebishSwed the based kind.

[@anagheorghita9548]

its so funny how they were an 'anti sjw' blog but would have easily fitted into the 2015 tumblr 'sjw' definition 😭

[@VCheesey]

Literally some of the mods were nonbinary while one of the rules was p much "its okay to make fun of peoples gender and sexual identity and pronouns." Knowing Tumblr it's hard to tell if it's even satire lmao.

[@advantgardeboy2007]

@@VCheesey they literally said it was a joke

[@ColdBaltBlue]

@@VCheesey Honestly, I’d take that age of Tumblr over the current age of Twitter. People can’t even laugh at themselves anymore.

[@Hambo325]

@@ColdBaltBlue right?

[@damien678]

@@ColdBaltBlue yeah, especially since the way tumblr is built it doesn't push people into fighting nearly as much as twitter 💀

[@JeromeSankara]

Izzy: covering anti-sjw people Also Izzy: respects their pronouns Be like Izzy.

[@Rei322]

1% does 40%

[@norealmagicever3292]

theyre not anti-sjws it was a huge joke

[@cocogoat1111]

Uh oh... someone didn't watch the whole video.

[@JeromeSankara]

@@cocogoat1111 Yeah I hadn't when I commented, but the idea is still nice

[@MasterSunnyEX]

@@Rei322 Azzaro-

[@clowneryjohnson5208]

Imagine showing this to someone in a retirement home

[@peachbubble8652]

Nah, Victorian child

[@henrynelson9301]

@@peachbubble8652 hey roach

[@ohdeer-sabrina8132]

7:10 there's just something so fucking funny in a hypocritical way about "no special snowflakes" being right above "be kind to mod silver" lmao

[@AxxLAfriku]

I was a boy. They were two girls. Can I make it any more obvious? I am KZbin's ALPHA MALE. Acknowledge it, dear ohde

[@DemeterBio.]

@@AxxLAfriku qkwjwojwakak- I'M LAUGHING PLEASE- ALPHA MALE????

[@Frick8375]

@@AxxLAfriku are you good 🗿

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@AxxLAfriku Glad to see you back AxxL. No one ever missed you.

[@coocooformycocoapuffs3235]

@@AxxLAfriku what are you on lmao

[@Mitsaya]

Part of the issue with this entire SJW/anti-SJW war Tumblr had going at the time was that no one seemed to agree about what was what. Being anti-SJW could mean anything from pretty much being a nazi to being against Tumblr's particular brand of "everything is problematic", and being an SJW could mean anything from being vaguely leftist to being a communist to being the kind of person who bullies people of the site for drawing a character in a way they disapprove of.

[@MMumbles]

I feel like SJW became like "Karen" or "pick-me" where it became so overused, it lost it's meaning.

[@pellinko]

even the definition given in this video isn’t what i think of when it comes to the term “SJW” just goes to show how outta wack political buzz words can be

[@SelemaTatsuhiko]

Oh absolutely, back in the day the only SJW blogs I knew about (because someone I followed reblogged them) where incredibly mean spirited and borderline violent so I just assumed the term meant somebody who took social justice way too far like a Karen of today.

[@earthwormjim91]

@@SelemaTatsuhiko het definition was supremely generous

[@pellinko]

@@SelemaTatsuhiko exactly, SJW to me, meant those people who support violence, dox people or try to ruin lives over politics

[@darkmetal2412]

Mod Shadow may have been an edgy gun loving teenager.... But my god he went out like a badass

[@bibblyboing]

A true anti-hero

[@LannyLeArtist]

Yerp

[@nekochan3231]

*She but yeaa

[@jackalobowaitthisnameistaken]

They weren't a teenager...they were...a spacekin

[@dingdongfootball5331]

I’m sorry but the fact that Mod Shadow posted an image from Tails Gets Trolled and captioned it “For Mod Sonic” should’ve let literally everybody know this was a parody lmao

[@yuxaredd]

"Popular mascots hijacked for viewpoints that are almost certainly inaccurate to the original character's" has got to be the KEY ingredient for some properly batshit stories

[@garrett_69777]

heh... hehe.... Chris-Chan...

[@couchbug]

reminds me of people who use sailor moon for terf shit... usagi loves EVERYONE and that includes trans women

[@ddjsoyenby]

so every time 4 chan uses an anime girl.

[@Anonymous-bi5pv]

Except the Sonic being bicurious part, that's canon (j)

[@dimples9746]

@@couchbug oh so usagi likes nazis too? of course she’s a nazi who enjoys the screams of dying children /j

[@Liam-mf4fl]

something about "it's summer vacation and we were bored" is just kind of iconic. all this was because they were ✨bored✨ and now it's a part of history

[@DissedRedEngie]

"hey, wanna implode the internet?"

[@phz7107]

"Hey Ferb i know what were gonna do today!"

[@liammclin5722]

Liam club and also yeah boredom is a force for motivation

[@PatchyThePirate_]

phineas and ferb be like

[@Taylors_version_from_the_vault]

@@phz7107 HAHAHAJGHjHyHhHyH

[@casinopolis]

the transformation from mod sonic to mod super sonic to mod dark sonic is so fucking jarring and hilarious to me. she was really going through it

[@papus615]

The fact that it starts with Silver being bullied is probably enough to feel like it could be canon sonic content

[@UnknownSpy]

I can't believe this is the legacy my crying Silver art will leave behind. Help-

[@b5m3_mov]

sploot

[@ZimLikesPastaAnimation]

holy crap, that was YOUR art? Wow, you learn something new every day.

[@_BubblGum_]

sploot

[@electrocast]

LMAO that was your art? thats WILD. a friend of mine used to use that same art & crop as a reaction image on their silver rp blog long before sonic for real justice was a thing

[@brotehrood9320]

THAT WAS YOURS???😭

[@JamesTullos]

Isn't every Tumblr saga a bizarre one?

[@jellitas]

As someone who is on Tumblr everyday, yes..

[@recitationtohear]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX7GoGp9o99qgZo yes fax :}

[@randomtinypotatocried]

Basically

[@fairycat23]

hi James

[@neutralclownpose3928]

That's the nature of Tumblr

[@asteraceae]

God this is hilarious, I’m getting flashbacks to the “your fave is unfuckable” discourse as people started to compare it to SFRJ

[@doityourselfbombs]

omg yeah, I somehow didn't know about this but I was following urfaveisunfuckable when all the drama went down and they're really so similar

[@asteraceae]

@@doityourselfbombs I have a friend who was a mod on the tumblr acc and I was just live blogging it to them because they had left a month or two before all the shit went down

[@doityourselfbombs]

@@asteraceae omg glad they got out before everything went down

[@THEDeathWizard87]

That’s the first thing I thought of

[@garrettbates9124]

Still can't believe that actually happened. Iirc it wasn't even staged. One mod got called out for making NFTs and it domino'd into the entire blog falling apart like a house of cards

[@themae_ale]

As one of the people that was originally supposed to play Mod Big, Mod Cream, and Mod Vector in this stunt, I was shocked that people were still talking about this today. Thank you so much for covering something stupid me and my friends did I guess...

[@gabbo7101]

sfrj cut content 😳

[@morcego7712]

Sfrj directors cut

[@starlesscitiess]

WHATTTT THATS WILD

[@Sleepster]

there was going to be more mods? sheesh

[@lamibonxd]

me when i lie on the internet for fun

[@allison2725]

The fact that this was all an orchestrated joke is the funniest part to me, for so long I thought these people were being serious.

[@taylovesfun]

…it was all orchestrated??? I feel lied to

[@tykamen5588]

I'm not too surprised if it was orchestrated just the thought of Sonic characters being anti-sjw is just funny

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I want to think Mod Shadow was 100% serious

[@badtzmaro]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 i also want to think that they had TOO much fun doing this lmao

[@Caelinus]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 It would be really funny if it was all an elaborate prank on Shadow that roped in a huge audience.

[@miles.1203]

I have to live with the fact that I was the person who originally sent in the ask wondering if anyone on the blog watched MLP. I had a hand in the entire fucking narrative of this shitshow. Oh my fucking god.

[@castaway2850]

thank you for your service

[@sergiorubens8475]

What the fuck

[@FoxSqueeArt]

Yuck brony. Yall ruin everything

[@miles.1203]

@@FoxSqueeArt Former, I haven't participated in the fandom since late 2017. I still really dig the characters/older episodes though, the show shaped my childhood 😔

[@FoxSqueeArt]

@@miles.1203 smh

[@juro7854]

I would pay anything to have the voice actors read all this in character

[@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123]

The line "It was Summer Vacation and we were bored" in explains SO MUCH shit omg

[@Zulf85]

There are two shocking reveals for me here: 1. They actually said this was fake 2. People actually believed this was real and not parody. That being said it was also hilarious at the time to me

[@yuki97kira]

Never had tumblr but that wouldve really gave me a headache lol

[@denjidenji9162]

I was also on Tumblr at the time and didn't follow this blog actively, so from the few scraps I believed it. That website was batshit insane back then so that's why lmao

[@doityourselfbombs]

a situation just like this happened on tumblr like two months ago that seems like it's real (the blog existed for a year or so before the drama too) so it's not too hard to believe people thought it was real. tumblr drama is insane.

[@Hambo325]

To be fair, I've seen much worse

[@lich6018]

@@doityourselfbombs was it your-fav-is-unfuckable

[@robinnewbold7745]

Being around for this saga as a 13 year old was absolutely surreal

[@chuchvv]

ikr

[@milktortoisewisdoms3449]

For this sega*

[@robinnewbold7745]

@@milktortoisewisdoms3449 This made me laugh out loud, I appreciate it

[@westheriault3797]

Agree

[@bingflop81]

pls same 😭

[@AdamOfIngolstadt]

Getting a Knuckles mod to be a peacekeeper was a move for sure...

[@Natizilda1]

I love how this was all a bunch of bored kids having fun, this is what the internet should always be about

[@Proasha]

Something absolutely insane is I was active on tumblr during this time. Mod Amy’s avatar is actually my old artwork. It was so surreal to me during the drama and it’s even more surreal now to see it in someone’s video about the subject.

[@lemonsmug]

FR???

[@Proasha]

@@lemonsmug yes!! It’s the one of Amy shaking her fist (in the thumbnail). It’s still on my deviantart under the same name as I have on here.

[@lemonsmug]

@@Proasha that's actually really cool

[@Poedoco]

yOo

[@sadtitties222]

@@Proasha Your pfp is too funny and perfect for this video's topic. 😆

[@SpanielTower]

“I chose Shadow because of his hatred for humans” Does this person know how Shadow originally died? He died sacrificing himself for humanity, after remembering Maria tell him explicitly to “give (humans) a chance to be happy”

[@almondwaet7966]

jesus the hedgehog

[@sarinabina5487]

i mean 2 be fair it all turned out 2 be satire

[@SpanielTower]

@@sarinabina5487 yes but in my defence I didn’t know that when I made this comment And in my offence, I should have waited until finishing the video before making it.

[@ToaArcan]

Mod Shadow was definitely based on the Ow the Edge memes, and the rather wrong-headed portrayal of Shadow that permeated his own game that gave rise to said memes, more than the actual character.

[@sarinabina5487]

@@SpanielTower slkjdj dw ur good. hope u have a nice day:)💖

[@rcscooter4162]

After watching this I feel like Dr. Doofenshmirtz when it looks like he's run away in a cloud of smoke but when it clears he's just standing there and says "What just happened?"

[@frangipanii]

Can you imagine how funny this must’ve been behind the scenes?

[@Blacknight8850]

I was giggling throughout this, but I actually squealed out loud "THREE?!" when you revealed how much of this had happened in *three days!* I'm just lucky my co-workers can't hear me at my desk or I'd have had to explain... all this to them.

[@Eveliane]

I KNOW RIGHT? I assumed it was months worth of storyline

[@pinkiepielunagirls4541]

i'll never get over the fact that the entire blog took place over the course of about a week. it's incredible

[@tape-6]

much like a shaksperian drama, what can happen over the course of days is truly amazing

[@Riley_HawkinsOSRS]

Get back to work.

[@wuvumgywgy]

Watch it when you get home

[@unfathomable3434]

Sonic stuff is either the greatest of all time or the worst most depraved rabbit holes you will find

[@holyboiamethin2790]

Like Chris Chan?

[@-AirKat-]

Sometimes both

[@tykamen5588]

Why can't it be both?

[@commiefornian7496]

@@holyboiamethin2790 yes specifically chris chan shout out geno Samuel a true christogropher

[@wuvumgywgy]

"worst most deprived rabbit holes" yeah like tails gets trolled

[@SKmaric]

There's something so funny about a Sonic themed blog being "anti-woke" when Sonic himself hates oppression and Eggman is canonically a feminist. (yes I know the feminist thing was a mistranslation of "womanizer" but it's fair to say Eggman's feminist stance has been made canon especially now that he canonically respects pronouns in Frontiers)

[@Peasham]

Nah dude the ecoterrorist Communist totally isn't woke what are you talking about

[@wolfiuhmmm]

their entire drama is the epitome of “what on earth, is going on, in the house of commons.”

[@aeddiefarmer]

Fake or not the SFRJ saga is like the perfect illustration of what being 13 feels like. If someone asks you what being 13 feels like just show them this vid. I have a stress headache now.

[@madelinevlogs5898]

I was 13 when I was watching the SFRJ thing go down, perfect timing

[@kidd8344]

29:40 - I genuinely would've believed this whole thing was real, purely because I had/have a friend that acts so much like Mod Sonic, it's uncanny. The dude's totally serious too, he has a discord where he does stuff just like changing his avatar from Sonic to Dark Sonic and shit. Moral of the story, people like that really do exist 💀💀

[@Tavares0709]

The emo sonic phase seems way more common than I thought

[@theundergrounder9333]

I need to know. Is his name cam???

[@monbub]

omg my friend does that. it's so cringy and no one takes her seriously

[@mikeyhamato2012]

Sorry for being that kind of person.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Ikr. I know so many people with designated "I'm sad now" pfp's 😭💀

[@insomania1840]

Yo, I’m 14 minutes in, and this already seems like a singular person writing a Sonic fanfic in real time. I’m calling this being one person playing out all the characters.

[@henrynelson9301]

You were wrong lol

[@mind-scaped]

you were so close lol

[@neobell9511]

Quite close lmao

[@GagaLuvr15]

I did see some "forrealjustice" blogs faceclaiming fictional characters before this, so they didn't invent it but it likely made it more popular. I do remember while it was happening someone said "maybe it's being written by George RR Martin."

[@joshraid1550]

The funniest thing here is that every single one of these people would get called SJW by some big anti-SJW KZbinr out there.

[@user-gp5yz5yz4x]

Tbf they were faking it

[@sachsoup]

what even is a sjw

[@astracrits4633]

@@sachsoup Whatever *insert drama youtuber here* doesn't like at any given time.

[@sachsoup]

@@astracrits4633 why do people dislike SJWs?

[@b4rflady623]

@@sachsoup Its like asking a latin why they all dislike feminists, (Myself included) sjws are absolute clowns that disguise themselves in a rainbow colored blanket and force their thoughts on everyone giving real gay, trans people a horrendous look

[@camilocardona1105]

This is the kind of story that could vaporize a medieval peasant.

[@sciencey2858]

lol

[@illogicalparadox]

😂😂😂

[@russelljackson2818]

Medieval peasant? Dude my Dad would be obliterated by the sheer what-the-fuck-ness of this

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

@@russelljackson2818 hell, I was there when this all happened and I'm still confused

[@maestrol6771]

In all honesty, the stories they could tell to us would vaporize us as well, I do think..

[@sackfu7952]

Wherever these kids are now, i hope they're all doing alright and living their best lives.

[@Nalhirrim]

Silver shutting down the blog's ask feature before posting anything is strangely in character.

[@sillyd0g]

usually if a trainwreck of this scale were revealed to be a hoax i'd be disappointed but somehow sfrj turning out to be a bunch of bored teens orchestrating history's greatest tumblr drama for shits and gigs makes the whole thing even funnier. i was like 15 when this all went down and i still think about it fucking constantly

[@Squiddo]

Oh my god seeing this happen live was the wildest experience

[@DemeterBio.]

BEESCHURGER WHAT ARE YoOoOoOoU DOING HEREeEeEeE

[@IQorJustQForShort]

when

[@i_little_red3483]

It was genuinely so entertaining

[@GaiaTheLeafwing]

SQUIDDO??

[@35bam]

OMG SQUIDDO???

[@bingus4169]

“They were destroying their friendships, their blog….” “POPEYES JUICY CHICKEN SANDWIC-“

[@rosieholstein3233]

The people who were caught between anti-SJW content and yet still having a desire to be progressive are kinda the funniest examples to me, the types of people who were like "Pronouns are stupid! Except for these specific pronouns like she/her, he/him, and they/them, those are fine for some reason, but anything outside of that is bad and just SJW propaganda!"

[@mammoneymelon]

that was me back in 2015-2017 and that's honestly so funny in a sad way

[@Graknorke]

are there people who are against pronouns in general? sounds like a difficult way to live

[@marvelousTUD]

@@Graknorke I'm against pronouns in general. I simply do not possess any pronouns at all, because I am not an SJW. My pronouns are / . Do not refer to me. Do not perceive me.

[@CasualSunGod42]

@@marvelousTUD Well, I mean, if that's what want, respect , but do think that, wait a minute, know that's what wanted for , but why are also gone?? Wait, no, didn't agree to AA Batteries

[@ma.2089]

Reminds me of that one trans woman who rejected and shit on the people who’d accept her, and sidled up towards people who didn’t and would literally insult her to her face. Politically, you don’t have to approve or understand everything. You just have to respect it. I’ll never truly understand trans people, but I respect their human rights and their right to exist.

[@juneharrison327]

No one remembers this blog as satire because after mod dark Sonic's goodbye post a LOT of people assumed the blog died + Tumblr moves at light speed with inside jokes that the blog was buried instantly Mod Silver's return is like DLC most people on Tumblr didn't play and don't know existed 😭

[@Rosesofblood]

just like the Sonic 06 DLC 💀

[@reiphas]

As a Sonic fan, what the fuck is that Shadow mod introduction, lmao. Not only is it hysterical, I literally teared up, but it's also a butchery of Shadow's character I find difficult to forgive. But your Shadow impression is amazing, Izzy.

[@mephilestenesse5101]

Agony

[@kaliek5281]

He is trying to be edgy. But he's as edgy as a pizza cutter: all edge with no point.

[@b0ltun0]

@@kaliek5281 OW THE EDGE

[@firegirl1452]

"The watchful eye of mod Knuckles" has an energy that I cannot properly comprehend or describe with words, and I love it

[@turntechgodhead1975]

'Like I give a shit, I was spacekin anyways." is never going to leave my head. I will carry this with me for the rest of my life.

[@xenoncantread]

My dying wish is for voice actors to read these posts in their respective characters' voices and in character, I'd cry tears of joy

[@justine4581]

Gotta ask SnapCube and crew, it would be golden!

[@xenoncantread]

@@justine4581 Yes! They'd be perfect!

[@tykamen5588]

I would pay good money to see that

[@tallgeek1131]

I remember being in high school hanging out with some friends and one of them getting a notification for SFRJ posting. He then explained everything that had happened and let me tell you him finishing with "and the blog has been up for three days" hit me like a truck that was a wild time

[@AmeLilith]

I would like to point out that unfortunately, while Sonic For Real Justice was satire, actual anti-SJW character RP blogs were a very real thing on tumblr at that time and predated SFRJ. In fact, I'm pretty sure the reason for SFRJ becoming a DanganRonpa askblog for a bit is directly inspired by the fact that for some fucking reason, DanganRonpa characters and Komaeda very much in particular were VERY popular with many anti-SJWs on tumblr. The whole "Mod * character name *" thing with reaction images on each post was something you'd definitely see on an unironic anti-SJW DanganRonpa blog too. A dark time indeed.

[@Olivviaooo]

Something about people pretending to be Nagito Komaeda to shit on SJW-s is hillarious, I wonder if they were aware of that

[@samt3412]

@@Olivviaooo I feel like Nagito would be a Discord troll account that's way too active in every server he hasn't been banned in yet

[@brawler5760]

@@Olivviaooo I find it to be hilarious and pathetic.

[@YoWhatUpSussy]

This is one of the most saddest online communities I've ever had the displeasure to learn about.

[@CAPES4CHRIST]

I really distinctly remember a Pokémon themed one with the gen 3 legendaries, I’m pretty sure they were all separate blogs but they were run by either the same person or one small group of people. 100% unironically by the way

[@sashawallace1916]

The turn from Mod Super Sonic to Mod Dark Sonic with the "it's for your own good" justification fucking sent me. Some brilliant writing right there.

[@rulesofrose]

i remember when this was all happening, someone i followed reblogged something that was along the lines of like "omg STOP making fun of sfrj! they could be ONE PERSON having a BREAKDOWN! show some COMPASSION!" despite the fact that it was the most obvious troll blog in existence, which i feel like is simply the most 2015 tumblr discourse ever

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Tumblr's insistence on giving absolutely EVERYTHING "the benefit of the doubt" explains why they fell for so many scams.

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

@ferret4111 do it it sounds fun as fuck

[@benadical222]

I feel bad for people who got caught up in the anti-SJW craze, the term was unfortunately many people’s gateway into politics and equated terf, wokescold type leftists with anyone who believed in feminism and lgbtq rights. It turned a lot of potentially progressive minded people away from the good arguments in favor of minority rights and pushed them to believe the only alternative to unreasonable sensitivity was far right reactionary views. I’m glad the term and its stigma has faded away with time.

[@huuuuuuh2057]

As ashamed I was to have been part of them once, i'll admit it was fun while it lasted.

[@thanatoast]

It's like how Karen used to be a term for a very specific type of person, but then it slowly devolved into any woman you happen to disagree with. SJW used to refer specifically to the type of people who use the veneer of social equality to bully and harass people who "deserve" it.

[@richiejobro5639]

The whole reason I even got involved in that dumbass movement was because 16 year old me was told to pick a side and I found the other side too annoying. I still cringe whenever I look back on that phase of my life. At least I didn't do anything extreme outside of calling people stupid for obsessing over stuff that didn't matter at the end of the day like the whole "Where are her organs?" thing.

[@MsDancecommander]

I think with some people, they gotten pushed into one side through external circumstances, so you have people who blame the progressive side for radicalizing them. So like, a weird nail in a bridge moment. But otherwise, it's fascinating that I ended up with chronic skepticism instead of anything major. I questioned stuff on r/tumblrinaction and they have a dedicated question subreddit for asking questions like, "What are trans?" And stuff generally in that vein. I think of this ask blog as like a weird reaction to things they couldn't fully understand at the time. Weird, yet historically fascinating.

[@MsDancecommander]

Okay. So I didn't know it was fake. well. huh.

[@izznt]

IMO it's exactly like a performance. The pictures in the posts add a comic feel, like there's a thoughtful script behind it, characters thought out and even coming out after the curtains close for a little cast Q&A . Honestly really well done for some kids over a summer break.

[@willsith9762]

Ngl Shadow's my favorite character here. He was just being a general asshole, then just out of the blue comes out as Spacekin, stirs the pot and fuckin dips. You get the sense he was just fucking with em the whole time.

[@ArekusaSan]

As a Sonic fan and someone who (unfortunately?) grew up on Tumblr, this story is absolutely iconic. The Sonic characters being anti-SJW just feels, incredibly ridiculous to anyone who’s familiar with the characterization of these characters; they all have different motives, but a lot of them fight against oppression and injustice, so I have no idea why people think it was all genuine. Me and my friends quote from the blog from time to time. Dramas wish they had as much development and intrigue that this blog had

[@reiphas]

I mean, the introduction of Mod Shadow was a dead giveaway that something wasn't right. Like, how can you butcher him like that unironically? But the whole thing is ridiculous and I had a blast getting to know about it.

[@garn4579]

@ǞЯƮΦЯiǞ РęПDЯǞgΦП chief people claimed that the gears of war writing became 'leftist sjw' with 4 when the game story is a massive critique of the gulf war and in general the american's war for oil. It's people that cry 'bout stuff

[@GoreHusbando]

NEVER FORGET MOD SHADOW’S ICONIC EXIT

[@berry-bj4py]

Ok but is silver actually delicate? 🤔

[@princeapoopoo5787]

I feel like people will generally oppose justice on some fundamental level, but the moment it leans too hard into 'uncomfortable territory' or whatever, folks get their panties in a bunch.

[@longlivetheking69]

i wasn't directly involved in any way, but i remember seeing this dumpster fire live. it was legitimately HILARIOUS to watch everything play out and the curveballs of different non sonic characters appearing was like getting hit with a sack of bricks. also i like to imagine that there's at least one fanfiction where someone wrote this as the actual characters having this argument, and if there isn't i'll create it with my own hands.

[@melpmaz7041]

I'm sorry but the fact that the first response is a bot screaming MOANING SOUNDS is so hilarious, i can't breath lmao

[@skyrimlover777]

Yo you got 2 bots! Lucky! :3c

[@Dhjjgghjbf]

do it. write the fanfic NOW

[@arandomladywithabadsleepsc1748]

Glad to know it was a joke by them all.

[@cringeassnaenaebaby4804]

"most of the admins later changed their pronouns" is so.. Funny to me. They grew up and accepted themselves and stopped spewing hate online which i remember doing as a person who hated themselves a lot and good for them

[@cringeassnaenaebaby4804]

Nvm i did in fact not know it was a hoax that's hilarious i wasn't following them at the time

[@getsouped]

the similarities between mod amy telling mod silver to contact her and mod silver telling mod classic amy to contact him .. priceless

[@Jabrils]

Yo lol. I low key love this theatrics lmao but I thought it was going to be only 1 person responsible for the whole ruse 😂

[@sofiipote7]

Same. I always love the image of someone running multiple accounts that hate each other which are just one person arguing with themselves

[@_Chessa_]

@@sofiipote7 I felt the same way. XD Great ending though.

[@friendlysleepparalysisdemon]

toby

[@imnot9orsilentgamer437]

@@friendlysleepparalysisdemon oh my god toby

[@setsers1]

Huh...neat

[@charlievanbeek3053]

I repressed this to the point where I read "Sonic For Real Justice" and screamed NO. This channel is nostalgia and haunted tumblr memories, and this is definitely haunted. Mod shadow was truly a menace to the TL.

[@DaisyKeehl]

Honestly though. I audibly went "oh no"

[@ThatChristianMetaIhead]

This anime had so many twists I'm surprised that M. Night Shyamalan didn't direct it.

[@anubislover8989]

Honestly the most shocking thing about this situation is that none of the mods "doxxed" one of the others as part of the pseudo-drama since just about every other rule on their list was broken.

[@olioliveoliver1513]

Getting to the part where the blog went from anti-sjw sonic characters, a danganronpa blog, then a GAY YUGIOH BLOG absolutely made me lose my shit. There was no way it could've been more chaotic, this story rattled my brain around in my skull like the die in a magic 8-ball

[@catboymiles7224]

it’s kind of wild how this insanely silly internet saga ended up having a pretty uh. “reality hits in the worst way” ending too (bc of the recent uncoverings of why the blog with the sfrj url was deleted last year)

[@urieldaboamorte]

@@catboymiles7224 just saw it on know your meme was not expecting that holy shit

[@MyFatherLooksLikeAPallasCat]

“This is day seven, the blog has been up for just a week” This is the most drama accomplished in a week since the biblical creation itself

[@ZComiX]

I’m surprised no one figured out it was bait immediately, several the thr plot threads rely on Sonic Canon relationships. Like it looks like roleplay, perhaps I would have had to be there to be tricked, but a lot of the controversies clearly rely on having knowledge of deep cut Sonic lore, such as Sonic and Sally’s relationship and knuckles being useless at his stated goals (protecting the blog/ master emerald). Good video either way, thanks for the tale!

[@garrettbates9124]

I now want to see a video about "Yourfaveisunfuckable" and how it went from a semi-popular blog with one (1) joke to a trainwreck in the span of one day. From "*ugly/evil character* from *insert series* is unfuckable" to "Guys I'm sorry I made NFTs I just wanted money it was an accident" to "Apparently the blog was actually making lots of money but only one mod (The one who was making NFTs) was getting any of it." within 24 hours. I've seen it compared to Sonic-for-real-justice and I've watched the downfall live and can safely say that that comparison an understatement.

[@goldenlightning8842]

The only thing that makes me mad about this blog is the fact that SHADOW DOESN'T HATE HUMANS his entire life and existence is based around his love for Maria and all of humanity like c'mon if anything Sonic is closer to hating humanity before Shadow would he literally said even if the entire world hates him and wanted him dead HE WOULD STILL FIGHT FOR THE PLANETS SAFETY ....I read way to deep into that bio but god being a sonic fan does that to you

[@mephilestenesse5101]

Mhm

[@malikarsyasakani]

If Shadow ran for President, his slogan will be “Make Humanity Great Again!”

[@isadoracesario192]

I love how you went on a rant about his and then was like " Or I'm just overthinking this little detail. " Relatable

[@LezbeOswald]

the thing that gets me going is that they had canonical sonamy in their group with Sally potentially breaking them up, as if the comics weren't the other way around lol. like i know it was a joke and they obviously decided to have two canonical sonamy mod pairs as a wink to the sonamy fandom but if they were following the comics' lore it should've been sonally...

[@goldenlightning8842]

@@isadoracesario192 god in such a dork I hope she covers more sonic stuff in the future. I love hearing about other fanbases and the stories around them but I can't connect fully unless it's sonic cause I'm a geeky dork who likes the series way to much Safe to say this goofy blog that was basically just tweens arguing with each other while poorly roleplaying sonic characters is my favorite video of hers I watch it religiously while headcanoning the actual characters going at it like this! 😭😭😭 I'm weak

[@StrykerMagnum]

I'm gonna be honest, I feel like "tumblr soap opera" is a perfect descriptor of what it was, and I think it's just great! Its something that neither a book or television show can truly capture properly, it's so entrenched in the format of the medium it's presented in, and I *love* stories told in unusual mediums!

[@jasperjazzie]

the fact that tails and knuckles did pretty much absolutely nothing throughout the entire situation is funny in a way i can't describe, i kept forgetting they were even involved because they both had like 3 posts

[@toothfairy10133]

"Like I give a shit, I was spacekin anyways" lives in my head rent-free

[@AldenEmroch]

The funniest part is that everything feels in character for the Sonic characters lmao

[@ls-rk6hw]

"I was spacekin anyways" made me laugh so hard my chest hurt

[@LunarRaevyn]

I remember being on tumblr to watch this go down live, it was genuinely the best drama online for weeks and it was the entirety of my dash for ages. The entire thing was just SFRJ drama posts and the remains of the drama of the first bone thief person, so honestly what an insane moment of time You hear that there was just basically a SFRJ 2.0 recently? "Your fave is unfuckable" recently had a meltdown between mods when one turned out to be an NFTbro

[@minidusa]

I know some people thought it was an obvious hoax from the beginning, but I’ve experienced stupid dramas like this irl. I was totally convinced

[@ventrirose3738]

I’m OBSESSED with how they’re anti-sjw but several of their views contradict this. And half of them coming out as some form of non binary? A true character arc

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

It's worth noting that a lot of anti-sjw people in the internet at least claimed to not hate the goals so much as the people/attitudes, in a "I think Women should be treated equally but women marching in the streets is just going too far!" kind of way. It's not inherently contradictory to be part of a marginalized group while also thinking that people advocating for said group cross certain lines.

[@BenDover-xw7dv]

Somehow the fact that it was all a jape in the end caught me completely off guard, I was ready to accept these people as genuinely all realizing they're LGBT

[@steamboatwill3.367]

@@DuskoftheTwilight ) i don't understand how "marching on the streets" is "going to far"?

[@PeterGriffin11]

I thought a SJW was just a person that was easily offended and wants people to be politically correct at all times.

[@Homodemon]

No, no you see they're not like "THEM" tho... They're "the good ones" /s I imagine that when you're like, in that fringe age between young adult and still a teenager, your view point is still divided in like, black and white, so that dissonance is proof that these "anti-sjw" people were really just pissy kids not really understanding how complex and vast the world and it's people were, and were all just reacting in the same way a little child would when someone they think is odd breaks the "rules" (in this case, societal norms) And in the end most of them turned up to be gay or like, part of the community they so fucking hated and fought against, you could say all the needed was to fucking grow up.

[@nothankyou4752]

haven’t seen the video yet but i just wanna say “like i give a shit, i was spacekin anyway” was an absolutely legendary sendoff EDIT: YESSSS IT GOT MENTIONED

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

Please cover the Ms Scribe saga and all the epic drama from the HP For Grownups Fandom back in the early internet days. The Harry/Hermione and Harry/Ginny shippers were total in total WARFARE with each other and so many fanfic archives were dragged through the mud and into this chaos that it was INSANE!!! The online fandom world of HP before the 4th book came out was a crazy time. It NEEDS to be covered.