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Okay, now for the final part.

Q And A From The Sonic Fanbase

If you haven’t already read these, please read them before reading this Q and A:

http://thepopcultgamer.tumblr.com/post/151542619802/a-message-to-the-sonic-fanbase-who-knew-me-back

http://thepopcultgamer.tumblr.com/post/152093585812/a-message-to-the-sonic-fanbase-who-knew-me-back

Q & A
Please listen to the following song as you read further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs

Question and Answer #1: Since you make those Karaoke Videos where you act silly in them. Would ever consider making Freakout-type videos like wafflepwn and McJuggerNuggets?

Yeah, I would love to make Freakout videos just like them. I can actually imitate Stephen and the mom very well. Yeah, I have seen the newest one where he became a painter like Bob Ross.

Question and Answer #2: Why did you quit the Sonic franchise? There many reasons why. The main reasons include:

1) I think Sega and Sonic Team doesn’t take good care of the series. In fact, Sonic Team seems to be proud of the fact that their games fail. That’s not a good thing. If your games are failing, don’t you think you try to do something to improve it? The head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka seems to have a bad attitude towards the series and other developers. He actually stated when Sonic Boom got bad reviews, “Only we can ruin this franchise.” According to Bob Rafei, Takashi Iizuka acted “traumatized” because of Sonic Boom’s redesigns to where he refused to look at the screen. In my opinion, that is very unprofessional and childish. It’s fine that he doesn’t like it but to act “traumatized” because Sonic was drawn differently? I am not trying to be blunt but that sounds like something Chris-Chan would have done.

2) The writing is bad. I don’t mean just the games from 2010-onwards. The problems I have with it include: trying too hard to be funny, it’s very unbelievable (even in cartoon standards), very little explanation for anything/lack of detail in writing, Sonic is extremely overpowered for his age to where it’s not believable (I don’t even think Goku, Naruto, Ichigo or Luffy were that powerful when they were 15), Sonic’s personality and how he is portrayed as a character is unlikable, the other characters are treated like jokes (I honestly think that there is no point in having them if all they are going to do is treat them that way), etc.

3) The Sonic Social Media accounts have also contributed to why I quit the franchise. The pages are run by Aaron Webber. His job is to promote and advertise Sonic games and merchandise. Instead, he is taking advantage of his job. What he does on the accounts is make a mockery out of the series, characters, fans, fanart, fanfiction, etc. He kills memes and jokes like there is no tomorrow. Some of the stuff he posted was in really bad taste. The JFK one was probably the worst one. He said “Let’s Blast Through With Sonic Speed!” with crudely pasted Sonic eyes on JFK with a “Darude - Sandstorm” byline. https://mobile.twitter.com/Tracker_TD/status/639860149319004160/photo/1 I can’t believe I posted this and I had to see all those “Sanic”, “Big” and “And Knuckles” memes all over again! People have complained about this his posts for quite a while. It’s not hard to see why! Who wants their newsfeed getting spammed with “Sanic”, “Big” and “And Knuckles”? Gaming critics and journalists think he is an idiot. His posts have also been getting negative attention from transgenders. Normal people are even wondering what is up with the people who run the page? Sonic fans are getting annoyed by it. Even interviewers are calling him out on it! He tries to justify it saying “There hasn’t been any Sonic games to announce!” (I know, he could have been promoting the games that were coming out soon.) And he even used “What’s how Sonic acts!” As an excuse! If Sonic jumped off a cliff, would he do it too? Not to mention he also defamed Keiji Inafune too! There was a misunderstanding about him saying “It’s better than nothing.” But it wasn’t him who said it and it has been proved by the original translator. It was someone else on the development team! Aaron is lucky that he isn’t being sued for that. Because that’s defamation of character. Aaron insists that is what happened but all the other news sources have corrected the misunderstanding. You know? Aaron Webber is like 30 something and he acts very childish. He acts like he is still in middle school. The whole Mighty No.9 post was very juvenile.

Even though I have quit the Sonic franchise, I am not giving up on my Adult-redesign Universe. I will make it a real-game someday. And I promise you guys that, it will cater to fans. It may be a bit different, but it’s to cater to us 90’s kids who grew up on Sonic as kids and are now adults. I want to move onto the new question.

Question and Answer #3: What is your fixition with people or characters beating up each other?

Haha! Ever since I was little, I always found that funny. Shows like Ren and Stimpy, Rocko’s Modern Life, CatDog, Ed, Edd, n, Eddy and SpongeBob made me get into that humor. I also played tons of fighting games growing up. I been playing Mortal Kombat since I was 4 years old! But of course, I don’t laugh at the fatalities or at any serious moment in any other fighting games. I just simply don’t care because it’s fake and unrealistic violence.

Question and Answer #4: It seems like any character or anyone could appear in your Smash Fight Videos?

Yeah, that’s true. But there are certain series and people that will NOT appear in the videos for reasons provided:

1) Sonic the Hedgehog - I used to make Smash Videos where random characters fought Sonic for laughs. But because the Sonic Social Media accounts posting distasteful content usually to mock the series. These videos became “Funny Aneurysm Moments.” I deleted the videos because of it and I am no longer going to have any Sonic characters (except my Adult versions) in my videos.

2) Politics including Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, etc. - Even though Super Smash Bros. is an unrealistic fighting game and the videos are meant to be funny. It can be considered a threat and I could get in trouble with the FBI for it?

3) Controversial people on the Internet - If I made a fight where for example, Chris-Chan getting beat up by other characters or people. It would violate both Miiverse’s Code of Conduct and YouTube’s Terms of Service due to it being considered harassment.

4) Any series and/or character/person I don’t like - I am not going to do that because that would be a waste of time and I could be doing something else I like with my time.

Question #5 What are the series and people you don’t like?

Yes, a few. I will list the series I don’t like and have a brief explanation to why I don’t like them. WARNING! What you are about to read is extremely disturbing. Please listen to the next song read further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0C0E0KvY68

1) Steven Universe - I had no opinion on this show at first because I have stopped watched the regular Cartoon Network a long time ago. But after I found out about the Zamii incident, I disliked this show. That disturbs me that people who harass someone so much over something so trivial to the point where she wanted to kill herself. I dislike Rebecca Sugar too. I know she was probably just a kid at the time she said she did Ed, Edd, n, Eddy pornography and didn’t know any better? But she drew other various cartoon characters engaging in sexually explicit acts. That’s disgusting and disturbing. If she continues to draw Ed, Edd, n, Eddy as an adult, she has got to be fired from Cartoon Network and have the FBI arrest her. The other crew members (fans call them “Crewiverse”, I apologize if I spelled it wrong?) of this show enjoy lolicon. If I was one of the important people at Cartoon Network, I would have pulled the show from the line-up, fired the “Crewiverse” and contact the authorities. I can’t imagine how parents are going to react to this? Hot Topic would remove all Steven Universe merchandise from the selves.

2) Kill la Kill - Before the show aired on Adult Swim, every anime fan talked about how amazing this show was. With anime, I tend to force myself to watch them even if they are boring. But when this show aired, I was scarred for life. I only watched like 4 episodes and I was too disturbed to watch it anymore. I never thought I would live to see the day where I disliked an anime! It was so disturbing. They did horrible, disgusting to the main character who appears to be 14-16 years old. There were grown men getting nosebleeds over her and the father had his face in (I can’t explain it, it is so disturbing.) Her sidekick who is even younger, was hanging upside down in agony (I can’t say it because it is too disturbing too) and everyone got a nosebleed over it. I can’t believe Cartoon Network would ever allow a show like this? Or Funimation could ever dub a show like this? How did the voice actors/actresses not think the script they were reading was creepy!? Or how did the people on the V-chip not think what the show was doing was disturbing? Someone looked at the show and gave it a rating!

3) Gurren Lagann - I actually like this anime when it was airing on Toonami…….until I found out it was made the same guy who made Kill la Kill. When I found that out, I was furious and refused to ever watch this show ever again! I regret ever being a fan of this show! I know they aged up Yoko Littner as an adult in the second arc but still that was really creepy that they had her the way she was in the first arc! I understand that Yoko could be interpreted as much older, people would fawn over her and not believe that she was the age she really was due to who she was drawn. But regardless, she SHOULDN’T have been drawn like that period. I know everyone is going to say “What about how they draw Ariel from Disney’s Little Mermaid? Or Jasmine from Aladdin? Or Debbie from The Wild Thornberrys? Or Vicki from The Fairly OodParents? Or Kim Possible? Or Jenny XJ-9 from My Life As A Teenage Robot? Or Frankie from Foster’s Home for Imagine Friends? They are all showing their midriffs!” The thing is because they are not drawing them in an inappropriate manner nor are they doing inappropriate things to the characters.

4) Justin Bieber - He annoys me. I would rather hear nails on a chalkboard!

5) Miley Cyrus - Her music is annoying, is overly exposed, her acting is bad and she is a bad role model.

6) Selena Gomez - Same as Justin Bieber.

7) Jonas Brothers - See Justin Bieber.

8) Fall Out Boy - See Justin Bieber .

9) One Direction - See Justin Bieber.

10) Vocaloid - See Justin Bieber.

11) Sword Art Online - I admit that I barely watched the second arc of the SAO I because I thought it was boring. When Toonami got SAO II, I decided to give it another chance. But the beginning of the second episode dropped the ball! Some military solider in his late 20’s or older was trying to hit on a 16 year old and stared at her inappropriately! I shut off the TV right there and refused to watch the show anymore.

12) Michiko and Hatchin - Portraying child abuse is disturbing. I know you are probably thinking, “You love The Simpsons and Homer strangles Bart all the time!” But the thing is, Bart is misbehaving and Homer is disciplining him. I agree he shouldn’t strangle Bart, but he should still smack him for misbehaving. Anyway, the foster family abused Hatchin and she was kidnapped (or should I say rescued) by Michiko. There was one episode where Hatchin got in a fight with Michiko and ran away to the circus. The people running the circus had her and other children do laboring work and were rather abusive. It gets worse as the clowns from the circus are seen taking inappropriate pictures of the children! A woman shot one of the clowns dead. I got angry again that another anime show on Toonami did something like this and refused to watch the rest of the episode and the show anymore.

13) Akame ga Kill - Oh boy. Where do I start with this one? Because of the title, I thought this show had a connection with Kill la Kill. It turns out it doesn’t. In the show’s 6th episode, it starts off with Yakuza-like gang members have a human trafficking assembly of some sort? The blonde, furry chick and the teenaged boy put a stop to it. Then a few minutes later, the blonde furry chick LICKS his ear and says “You’re going to be mine when you get older!” I got pissed again and didn’t finish the rest of the episode on my DVR. I deleted it and refused to watch the show anymore. I don’t care how much the other characters of that show thought she was hot. She’s a pig! If I were a cop on that show, I would have arrested her! I can picture her trying to talk me out of it and attempt to seduce me. I would say “No matter how much people think you’re hot, you are NOT above the law!”

14) Samurai Champloo - I have forgotten that Adult Swim had aired this show in the 2000’s as I didn’t watch it back then. After I saw two episodes of the show, it makes me wish I never saw it. There was this girl who was part of the two Samurai guys. Several older characters called her a “babe.” I was getting suspicious about her age because she looked younger than 18. There was one part in the second episode where the two Samurai guys wanted to “strip her and dump her in the river.” I was getting very suspicious about it and I looked up the character’s age and…….just as I suspected, she was underage! Because of this, I refused to watch the show anymore.

15) Parasyte: the maxim - Oh boy, where do I start with this one? Towards the middle of the show, the main character sees a dead Labrador Retriever puppy in the middle of the street and throws it in the garbage. Although, his girlfriend/love interest calls him out on it. The idea of him throwing a dead puppy in the garbage is disturbing. Then later on, the show dropped the ball BIG TIME when the main character and few other people were taken to an integration room in the police station. The reason why he was taken there was to see if this serial killer recognized him as a Parastye? The serial killer was being perverted towards a woman before he main character and she was taken out. Then when it’s finally the main character’s turn, the serial killer says “I am gonna rip you a new one!”, masturbates to him and tries to picture the main character in a dress (at least I thought that happened with the latter?) I was disturbed and refused to watch the rest of the show. I got very pissed off that the show did that!

16) Dimension W - I am going to make this one short. I didn’t even last the first commercial break it was THAT bad! Oh my god, I remember they just kept shoving that robot girl’s butt towards the camera over and over again and there were men fawning over her!

17) All American DiC Sonic cartoons and Archie Comics - I will make a long story short. I have disliked these since I was a kid.

18) NSFW material - There isn’t anything wrong with adult jokes and humor or suggestive humor. All the 90’s - early 2000’s Nickelodeon, Kid’s WB and Cartoon Network shows I watched when I was a kid had a suggestive joke here and there. But they never actually showed anything NSFW. Even South Park and Family Guy have to can’t go too far with the raunchiness. Even Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas wasn’t allowed to have the Hot Coffee Mod. They had to recall the game to remove the NSFW mod to get back it’s M rating and it turned into a gaming scandal. The reason why I dislike NSFW is because it is disgusting and disturbing. Why do NSFW do what they do? What are they gaining out of it? I know you guys are going to “It’s the Internet!” I don’t think it is an excuse at all. Do people they know in real-life know they make stuff like this? I doubt they approve of it at all. In fact, I think they would get their asses kicked in real-life. People hate stuff like that.

Question #6 What are your thoughts on Sonic Mania and the Sonic 2017 title?

I am unimpressed. I am sorry guys but the Genesis Sonic games have aged compared to other games on the console and other 16-bit games of the era. If I play the Genesis games, I feel it is a chore to play while other games, I have lots of fun with it. And honestly, why is it such a huge deal that Modern Sonic is canonically older, taller and has green eyes? How come no one cared when Mario’s original colors changed after the Original Super Mario Bros. on NES? Or when Link looks different in every Zelda game (they are never the same Links as they take place in different times)? Or any other video game character looking different? The Boom redesign of Sonic caused Chris-Chan to vandalize all those copies of Sonic Boom in public and pepper spray an employee that had nothing to do with Sonic! It makes me wonder what is going to happen when I have my Adult redesigns as a real-game?

Question #7 What would happen if people on the Internet verbally abused you at Karaoke while you were performing on stage?

Everyone in the crowd would boo them and they would get thrown out by the bouncers! They told me that if anyone harasses the other patrons, they would be thrown out and banned! Trying to start something would be a bad idea because this place is partially a bar!

Question #8 What do you think of today’s kid cartoons?

Please listen to the next song as you read further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBfygUiS50g

My Little Pony, Adventure Time and Regular Show are the only good cartoons. I don’t have an opinion on Amazing World of Gumball. But everything is else is garbage with Steven Universe being the absolute worst. I think it’s because I am 22 now and I have outgrown Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

Question #9 What would you do if anyone sings Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Fall Out Boy, One Direction, Selena Gomez or Vocaloid at Karaoke?

People have sang Wrecking Ball at Karaoke. I just leave the area and come back when it’s over. My friend however did a hilarious satirical take on Wrecking Ball and made it good!

Question #10 Why do you like hostile and crazy shows like Jerry Springer, Judge Judy, COPS, truTV shows, etc. so much?

Because it’s funny to see people yell at each-other, throw chairs at each-other, hit each-other in a slapstick way, get arrested, get in trouble, etc. All those shows except COPS and Judge Judy are staged. I wouldn’t watch Jerry Springer and truTV if the shows were real.

Question #11 Which Grunge band’s songs can you relate to the most?

Alice in Chains. I will list the songs I relate to with an explanation why:

1) Dirt (song) - This song is how I feel about the Sonic fanbase badmouthing me. I can totally relate to it except I am not suicidal. The lyrics “I tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me” is how I tried to hide myself from the Sonic fanbase as I sought out their hate towards me, making me feel awful about myself despite people telling me not to seek them out. “You have the talent, to make me feel like dirt” is how I feel about Sonic fanbase defaming and slandering me.

2) Nutshell - This is exactly how I feel word from word about the Sonic fanbase defaming and slandering me. Humiliating me all over the Internet and how much negative attention the Sonic fanbase gave me. “My gift of self is raped” is how I felt about all the unwanted criticism I got over my art. “My privacy is raked” is how I felt about all the bad publicity the Sonic fanbase gave me. “And yet I find, and yet I find repeating in my head” is me thinking about all the things the bad things have said about me. But the very last lyric, again I will never consider throwing away my life. Because that is selfish. It would greatly hurt my family and friends. And everyone else on the Internet who aren’t Sonic fans. Because I am very well respected in real-life and on the Internet by people who aren’t Sonic fans.

3) Down in a Hole - This song is how I feel about my self-esteem. “Look at me now, I’m a man who wouldn’t let himself be.” This, THIS. “I’d like to fly, but my wings have been so denied” is how I feel about feeling like I failed as an artist and again all the unwanted criticism I got.

Question #12 Have you met any celebrities?

Yes, I have met Good Charlotte back in 2007. The Guitarist gave me his pick and I think I still have it somewhere? I also met the Christian-Metal band, Stryper. My father worked for them back in the 80’s. I also have seen Chef Gordon Ramsay up close but did not talk to him. He’s really tall in real-life and he looks and sounds like he does on TV! And last year, I met Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family at an Improv Club. He’s really funny! But who I really want to met is Ben McKenzie from Gotham, Jimmy Kimmel, Jerry Springer, Maximilian Dood, Stephen Quire (the Greatest Freakout Ever guy), Les Gold, Judge Judy, Justin Wong, etc.

Question #13 What is it like when you have Anxiety?

It feels like you are suffocating. It can also felt like you are trapped or carrying the world on your shoulders, feeling like you are slowly being crushed by it. Other times, it feels like you are going to have a seizure (I don’t suffer from epilepsy.) Other times, it feels like you are going to die for no reason at all out of the blue. If I get anxiety I tell myself “You going to be okay, Brandon.” A symptom of my Asperger’s is that if I am in one spot for a long period of time. I get fidgety and feel the need to move one part of my body such as twitching my leg. When I am in the car for a long period of time, I get fidgety and feel the need to desperately get out. I know it sounds like I have A.D.D. People ask me why I am always pasting around or wandering around everywhere in sight? I tell them that “I get fidgety when I am in one spot for a long period of time and it makes me feel uncomfortable in my own skin.” Hell, every single time I am online. I am NEVER on the computer. I am in various different places either at home or outside in public. Come to think about it? This may be a good thing because I am getting a lot of exercise due to constantly wandering around everywhere!

Question #14 How do you think you are going to die?

Please listen to the next song as you read further: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg

Stroke. That’s how I believe I will die from someday.

Question #15 Why do change your profile picture and cover photo so much?

I change it every Saturday. I just think it’s interesting to see what I will use as my next avatar and wall cover!

Question #16 Are you really 22? In all your selfies on here and your Karaoke videos, you look so much younger than 22?

Trust me, everyone have questioned my age in real-life. EVERYONE! I guess you can say the reason why I look so young is because I don’t smoke, drink or do drugs!

Question #17 Is there anything funny you want share are with us?

I watch Toonami and watch bands play before hand every Saturday night in a VIP room. When it’s a commercial break or when Gundam is on. I watch the rest of the bands play. And see the crazy mosh pits! When I watch anime in the VIP room. I comment on every single scene in the show to make everyone else laugh in there! I tell everyone that I pretend to get mad whenever there is a “wallbanger” moment just for laughs! When I saw the premiere of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, I got mad when Dio Brando kicked Joestar’s dog claiming that it was trying to attack him! I said “No it didn’t! You freaking liar!” Or the part where Dio Brando kissed that chick, Erina against her will as her first kiss! And when he knocked into the mud puddle! I jokingly got mad! When Joestar’s confronted Dio later on, I was jumping for joy (no, not literally) when the former got the upperhand! I swung my fist to pretend like I was punching Dio Brando for being such a douchebag! Trust me, I was so satisfied that he got his just desserts! I recently had a viewing party for Gotham when Penguin got elected mayor of Gotham! When Bruce and Selina kissed, me and my friends clapped and cheered! I also remember watching an old Christian movie about a Jewish woman getting taken by Nazis to a concentration camp with my small group. I was making everyone laugh by commenting on every single scene. We were all commenting on every scene. I thought this one Nazi was a man due to her masculine facial features. My small group leader was like “Ha! No Brandon, that’s just a really androgynous woman!”

The only time, I would get angry at a TV show for real is if they did what the other anime I don’t like did.

Question #18 Is anything you want to tell the Sonic fanbase in defense of yourself?

Yes. I know I can’t change the Sonic fanbases opinion about me. But I am not who they think I am. I am not a guy who is obsessed with anything Sonic related. I am so much more than a guy who liked Sonic. I don’t like the Sega Amy because it’s 12. I only like my Adult Amy that I drew and other Adult redesigns that inspired it. And it was a celebrity kind of crush and it I admit that I exaggerated a bit with the fawning. I only did that just to be funny. I don’t “not accept opinions.” I just didn’t want people going on my stuff to write negative comments. And I also didn’t want people intentionally going on stuff they hate to write hate comments. Because that would be rude to the artist and it would provoke a flame war in the comments to the people who are enjoying the work. On Gamefaqs, it would be considered “trolling.” Back then before I was on deviantART, I would sometimes say on the Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 boards on Gamefaqs “this game is awful” as the title and bash it on posts. It would get removed and the reason why is it would say “trolling.” Same thing on the Facebook page of Marvel VS Capcom 3 at the time. I would spam it to get back at the trolls who were trolling the page and being vindictive that Capcom still didn’t put in Mega Man or other Marvel characters. I am not proud of what I did back then on Gamefaqs nor about spamming the Facebook page of Marvel VS Capcom 3 and I regret it. And the funny thing is I actually play Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 on a regular basis! That’s why I tried to convince Sonic fans not to intentionally go on what they hate to write hate comments. I had good intentions and I didn’t want them to make the same mistakes I did. I just want people to make the right choices in life because I care about other people.

Conclusion
So yeah, I hope you guys read both parts before reading this Q and A? If you guys have anymore questions, I will update this prose with your question and with my answer to it. I hope you guys have a good rest of the day and God Bless!

Songs Used
1) I Stay Away - Alice in Chains (1994)

2) X.Y.U. - Smashing Pumpkins (1995)

3) Unsung - Helmet (1992)

4) Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden (1994)