Google Play’s weird Sonic appreciation post

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Play’s weird Sonic appreciation post

In what feels like an out of left field move,

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Play suddenly started spouting off a thread about Sonic the Hedgehog. While not particularly a bad thing since the Blue Blur’s having his own cultural moment, a lot of it was wrong.

Over the weekend,

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Play’s

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posted a thread detail Sonic’s extensive history with each post signifying him getting “older.” The problem is it was rife with false information from the very start. In the first post, it details the original game being 8-bit, which famously it’s not — it’s 16-bit. Furthermore, as pointed out by

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, the screenshot was from a 2013 mobile game while other posts were also stemming from mobile titles. While thematic to the ********* tech company’s platform, it’s kinda disingenuous, to say the least.

Sonic, but as you scroll he gets older and older

a thread

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To top all that off, the last post in the thread appeared to be some poorly modified screenshot of Sonic Prime’s Season 4. Frankly, it was kinda silly seeing just how jaunted it all was, but at least it seemed like

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Play knew that it was a wacky thread, even if — hopefully — it didn’t know just how wrong it was with the lore.

It got so much attention that ***** itself

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asking what the tech giant was even doing.

what are you doing

— Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog)

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#Plays #weird #Sonic #appreciation #post

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