I couldn’t understand why posts on Sonic Twitter left me enraged and exhausted, but now I know. As an older fandom adult with some sense, I am one who just wants to enjoy the fanart, the minor to moderate obsession with characters, fanfiction, and general fun discussions. I don’t get that on Sonic Twitter. I am at the point where I don’t even want to play Sonic Crossworlds Racing because of fandom.

Every week, there is a discussion revolving around a character and why their current design looks bad, why the writing is bad, why certain characters getting their shine is bad, why certain characters NOT getting their shine is bad, why are fans racist and homophobic/transphobic, why do we hate black fans, and so on and so forth. It’s nauseating.

I feel like I’m back in middle school, online on forums and websites, where the teens and adults at the time were fighting about Sally Acorn and Sonic and still being ugly towards Amy Rose, even THEN! At that time, it was people going after those of us who weren’t Sonally fans and basically treating us like shit. I feel like I see the same resemblance in other characters in 2025 and people being run off social media, mainly Twitter, because of their factual opinions. It’s ugly as hell, and I’m tired of it.

I truly want better for this fandom, but I realize I won’t get it. I have to stay away to enjoy my beloved characters, make my own worlds and stories, and learn how to draw so my ideas can come to fruition. I know this. I know this from Dragon Age fandom and its treatment of Black characters and fans. I know this from the brief outburst of nonsense with the Guild Wars 2 fandom when Path of Fire was released, and we were in a fictional African/Middle Eastern setting.

I think I will just sit and enjoy my favorite ships and characters in the Sonic fandom without getting caught up in fandom antics, because it’s just too much. I’m too grown for this shit. I don’t want to deal with teens and 20-29-year-olds whining about shit. I don’t. Curtail your space so you can be happy, and PLEASE stop arguing with yourselves and take that shit up with Sega. PLEASE. Ya’ll are killing me.