Sonic For Real Justice

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]

After a brief dispute between the two remaining mods, Mod Sonic and Mod Yugioh (formally Mod Shadow), the blog was split into two on June 28th, 2021.^[32] Mod Sonic took the URL "sonic-for-real-justice", whereas Mod Yugioh was able to take the content of the blog, including its followers, and renamed the blog "googioh".^[33] Whilst Mod Yugioh largely kept their blog on-brand, Mod Sonic would initially privatise their blog for some time, using it as a personal sideblog occasionally before rebranding it as a "milgram sideblog",^[34] which was to be the final form the original URL would take. Over time, Mod Sonic's posts would become increasingly antagonistic towards asks that they received.

On November 7th, 2022, the "sonic-for-real-justice" URL would be terminated for breach of Tumblr's Harm to Minors guidelines, after Mod Sonic posted content depicting adults and minors in inappropriate situations. Later on, on December 21st, 2022, Mod Yugioh would speak out on their "googioh" blog, revealing that Mod Sonic pranked them by pretending that they, a 22 year old, were dating a 14 year old.^[33] This caused the end of their friendship, after which Mod Sonic continued to harass Mod Yugioh in private. In response to an ask about the situation, Mod Yugioh also revealed that Mod Sonic had close ties to someone who admitted watching real life CSA content.^[35]

Various Examples

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