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Overview

Sonic For Real Justice is a Tumblr Blog featuring anti-social justice written from the persona of Sonic the Hedgehog characters. The blog reached over 10,000 followers[13] within the first 24 hours of its launch after one of its moderators was banned for attempting to censor the site’s “Ask” feature.

Background

The Tumblr blog was created on May 30th, 2015 by a group of anonymous friends on Skype.[5] Each moderator took on a persona of a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe and used them to engage in a faux-conversation advocating extreme political correctness, a.k.a. social justice warrior practices, using the character traits of the Sonic characters.[1] The blog quickly began garnering attention after Mod Shadow’s edgy self-introduction (shown below, right), which got over 6,800 notes in under a day.[7]



Notable Developments

The blog increased in popularity after one of the moderators, Mod Silver, was banned from the blog for disabling the “Ask” feature,[9] which violated one of the group’s code of conducts, according to one of the co-moderators Mod Amy.[10] Furthermore, the group’s tongue-in-cheek rule, “Be kind to Mod Silver”, was also removed from the blog’s rules page[11] as a result of the ban. The ensuing drama was largely met by negative and sarcastic responses from the blog’s fans and followers on Tumblr.



Meanwhile, Tumblr user radicalruster released a number of parody voice-over recordings of Mod Shadow, with all of them featuring some form of rock music in the background. The most popular version to date has received 2,500 notes in just a few hours.[4] On May 30th, Tumblr user Transyuri created a music video detailing the blog’s formative events, which received over 21,000 notes within 18 hours (shown below).[3]



That same day, Tumblr user Gemwarp also explained the situation surrounding the Sonic For Real Justice mods in a text post, accompanied screen captures of the discussions among the moderators (shown below). The post received over 22,000 notes within 24 hours.[8]



On May 31st, Mod Tails resigned from the blog after claiming he was harassed by Mod Amy.[12] A few hours later, Mod Sonic revealed he and Mod Amy had been secretly dating,[17] which caused suspicion amongst the blog’s followers over the integrity of the mod team. Later that same day, Mod Knuckles was recruited into the group, claiming to “play as the peacemaker of the group” and became the only mod allowed to change the rules (shown below).[14] A few hours later, Mod Tikal was banned for breaking the “no special snowflakes allowed” rule after expressing herself as a demigirl.[15][16] On June 1st, another mod was recruited, known as Mod Sally.[18] On June 2nd, Mod Shadow was banned from the blog;[19] followed by Mod Knuckles a day later,[20] which in return also made the “master rule” void (shown below); with Mod Sally resigning that night.[21] On June 4th, Tumblr user manic the bpdhedgehog made a post with a hypothetic diagnose that Mod Sonic could have Borderline Personality Disorder, which Mod Sonic later accepted.[23] Finally, on June 6th, Mod Amy was banned from the board,[22] leaving only Mod Sonic as an active moderator. During the process of the bans, Mod Sonic also changed his name to respectively Mod Super Sonic, after the Mod Knuckles ban; and Mod Dark Sonic, prior to the Mod Amy ban. However, 6 days later, on June 12th, Mod Dark Sonic’s sudden inactivity got him banned, after which Mod Silver and Shadow returned along with a new moderator, Mod Blaze.[24] On June 16th, two new mods, Mod Classic Amy[25] and Mod Classic Sonic,[26] were introduced and were said not to be the original duo. On June 19th, Mod Shadow created a post claiming that Mod Silver’s initial behavior prior to his original ban was an act in order to make the original Mod Amy appear bad.[27] On June 22nd, after a slight period of inactivity, Mod Silver denied the post and apologized for said inactivity. [28] After that post, the account was inactive for over a week which meant it should’ve been deleted, but only Mod Classic Amy and Mod Classic Sonic were banned. [29] Mod Silver then made a post about the asks sent to them over this period of inactivity were deleted by the classic mods, [30] but Mod Shadow made a post saying the “real” reason for the removal will be shown eventually. [31]




Various Examples



Search Interest

External Links

[1]Tumblr – Sonic For Real Justice

[2]Tumblr – Search for sonic for real justice

[3]Tumblr – Transyuri

[4]Radicalruster – requested by classiccocacola

[5]Sonic For Real Justice – Sonic’s the name!

[6]/r/OutOfTheLoop – What’s this sonic for social justice blog on tumblr?

[7]Sonic For Real Justice – I’m mod Shadow.

[8]Tumblr – Gemwarp

[9]Sonic For Real Justice – Silver…you haven’t even fucking posted

[10]Sonic For Real Justice – Attention

[11]Sonic For Real Justice – Blog Rules

[12]Sonic For Real Justice – I’ve made a decision…

[13]Sonic For Real Justice – BY THEWAY, WE HIT 10,000 FOLLOWERS

[14]Sonic For Real Justice – I’M KNUCKLES

[15]Sonic For Real Justice – I’m sorry Tikal but this is the last straw

[16]Sonic For Real Justice – I’m afraid sonic is right this time

[17]Sonic For Real Justice – Our relationship attracts weird attention

[18]Sonic For Real Justice – Sally Introduction

[19]Sonic For Real Justice – Shadow is next on the ban list

[20]Sonic For Real Justice – Why am i off the mods page

[21]Sonic For Real Justice – I think most if not all mods are asleep now

[22]Sonic For Real Justice – I’m banning Mod Amy. For her own good

[23]Sonic For Real Justice – I know what’s happening

[24]Sonic For Real Justice – Mod List on June 12

[25]Sonic For Real Justice – Mod Classic Amy Introduction

[26]Sonic For Real Justice – Mod Classic Sonic Introduction

[27]Sonic For Real Justice – I’m tired of you, Mod Silver

[28]Sonic For Real Justice – We’ve been really busy lately

[29]Sonic For Real Justice – PSA

[30]Sonic For Real Justice – I was hoping to answer asks that were left

[31]Sonic For Real Justice – You’ll see what happened


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