Sonic on Reddit

I haven't seen any sexy fanart on r/sonicthehedgehog, but I did once post an Infinite vs Shadow meme that got deleted so that's no fun. Did you mean r/sonic or r/sonicthehedgehog?

 

That's news to me...

 

Not that I’ve seen which is unfortunate as that sub is indeed awful, it’s dominated by fan art and defense force kinda fans going on about the usual things they go on about to the point where actual Sonic news gets buried under it all. The Frontiers sub is decent though I’ve seen a healthy amount of technical discussion about the game there.

 

They merged years ago.

Anyway I'm on the Sonic subreddit a lot, but not because it's good. Reddit is kind of a circlejerk in general, and so is Sonic fandom among people in their 20s, so a lot of the popular_opinion.jpg shows up there, or even stems from there in some cases (youtube dudebros definitely spread the most, though). Lots of love for Adventure and the 2000s, lots of "wah Pontaff Meta Era Boom", et cetera. I don't even totally disagree, it's just that I've seen the argument hundreds of times. The most I can say is that it does have moderators, so it's better than twitter.

...But mild, surface-level discussion is the best you're getting. It's the nature of reddit, even Sonic fans there aren't going to be the kind of fans to make profiles on dedicated forums...because otherwise, they would.

That's not to say it's worthless, I mean I like Sonic fanart, and obviously I post new DDZ episodes there, but I don't really treat reddit as a repository for stuff like that.

As for the cheesecake art...I dunno, I'm honestly not that bothered, it's what I expect from a fandom full of furries. It's the comment sections, full of people with overexaggerated reaction gifs and "you're a porn addict" and "delet this" responses that make me feel like I'm walking through a middle school lunchroom where some kid just said "boobs". It's completely juvenile and embarrassing.

Most of my time there is honestly just spent trying to help out new fans asking about where to start, correcting myths and rumors about canon/SEGA/Penders, and...getting DMed because apparently me saying "I can link you to a digital collection" is google's top result when for looking for the Archie comics. They're just on internet archive! But now for some reason I've become the de-facto Penders peddler. Oh well.

 

Demographic is extremely younger on the subreddit, so naw.

 

This definitely does not apply to all of reddit. For example, r/oculus was for a time by far the best source of VR developer information on the planet, the single best resource for it even beyond hardcore enthusiast forums like MTBS3D. It was absolutely filled with leading industry professionals, like michael abrash and john carmack and alan yates and so forth had accounts where they'd post multiple times a day, every day, for years.

Reddit doesn't have to be surface. It very honestly depends on the subject and community. Sometimes Reddit can be the single best, most hardcore discussion board on a topic.

 

I didn't know about this, but there's apparently a TCRF subreddit. Probably the closest match to what you're looking for, that I can think of.

 

Yeah, I never go on r/sonicthehedgehog anymore either. They did a survey a while ago, and the average age was about 16. That fully explained why I'd been feeling more and more weird about hanging around there.