After seeing Friz’s makala about leaving the community I decided I should once again put some effort into looking for Sonic shabiki Character creators who may be interested in joining our community. I would usually go to communities on Facebook but I decided to at least window-shop at DeviantArt for once seeing how it’s the most maarufu location.
I assumed it was all because Facebook isn’t known for communities as much. I assumed fanpop was simply too low-key and not well-known. Now that I’ve checked on DeviantArt, I’ve realized what’s actually happening… au maybe I’m finally opening my eyes to something that was in front of me to begin with.
Our community getting smaller and smaller… the rate of which this has happened is a miracle. It isn’t just our group that’s getting smaller. I tried Sonic shabiki groups, normal Sonic groups, and went to areas I had previously visited. Many have been stalled, either dead au on hiatus. These groups do not have the “limitations” of ours. They are worldly groups that do whatever, but they are inactive au shrinking.
I can only assume this continuous decline is due to the failing quality of the Sonic Franchise. Sonic Boom was a gigantic flop, sending mashabiki away zaidi than gaining them. Sonic Lost World in the main series had many faults, also driving away fans. People all around the world continue to bash the franchise and the fanbase constantly. The Archie Comics just went through a retcon and while some mashabiki stuck around, it clearly had an effect on our numbers.
I realize how rare our community was. I found our layout to be the most specified to work with fandom in general. Most other groups I found rarely roleplayed if at all, and almost entirely focused on pictures. We all know that stories are rarely aliyopewa attention. With our group we had roleplays all the time, foramu included. The stories were not aliyopewa attention usually unfortunately, but it was active at the very least.
Unfortunately everything from our group to many others lacked the drive to stick to it; not in the sense of staying with the community, but seeing every even through. “Hey I made a contest. Who wants to join?” “Hey I’m making a comic” “Hey I’m making a game” “Hey, Art-trade” “Hey I’m uandishi a story” “Hey I ilitumwa this new roleplay/forum”. Rarely were these things finished. I know of VERY few people that actually finished any of my roleplays personally, and I’m sure others feel the same.
Yes I had an impact on this community, but what about people like NumnumnYellow? She had the same religious mindset and she left. Her reason? Well the same as many others. They grew out of it. They got bored. It wasn’t amounting to anything.
That seems to be what is happening nowadays to everything. I don’t want to believe the Sonic Fanchise is dying, au it’s fanbase, but I have found such a small amount of activity on the internet concerning fan-characters that it’s… depressing.
We can all start up as large groups, but those groups shrink, then break up, and become smaller groups, and those smaller groups DON’T mix. With each fall a percent (lets’ say 20%) of members go away. So let’s say 100 members start out. That turns into 80 which turns into 40 for two different groups. That’s already less than half. Then those groups lose 20% which is 8 members leaving two zaidi lesser groups from that making 12 for each group.
So what do wewe want? To leave? If wewe start anew I wish wewe all the best of luck but this is not a good omen.
To those who’s minds are made up and want nothing zaidi to do with this, I understand. I will not attack wewe for wanting to leave but I cannot help but feel upset that there are now less people to talk with.
To those who are willing to discuss what is right and wrong; what is required and what it is simply something being clung to regardless of it not being required, we can discuss.
To those who plan to stay here, the life of our community depends on you. I hate to say this but I am tired of pulling the weight from almost everything here.
This isn’t just our group, this is the Sonic Fandom.
I assumed it was all because Facebook isn’t known for communities as much. I assumed fanpop was simply too low-key and not well-known. Now that I’ve checked on DeviantArt, I’ve realized what’s actually happening… au maybe I’m finally opening my eyes to something that was in front of me to begin with.
Our community getting smaller and smaller… the rate of which this has happened is a miracle. It isn’t just our group that’s getting smaller. I tried Sonic shabiki groups, normal Sonic groups, and went to areas I had previously visited. Many have been stalled, either dead au on hiatus. These groups do not have the “limitations” of ours. They are worldly groups that do whatever, but they are inactive au shrinking.
I can only assume this continuous decline is due to the failing quality of the Sonic Franchise. Sonic Boom was a gigantic flop, sending mashabiki away zaidi than gaining them. Sonic Lost World in the main series had many faults, also driving away fans. People all around the world continue to bash the franchise and the fanbase constantly. The Archie Comics just went through a retcon and while some mashabiki stuck around, it clearly had an effect on our numbers.
I realize how rare our community was. I found our layout to be the most specified to work with fandom in general. Most other groups I found rarely roleplayed if at all, and almost entirely focused on pictures. We all know that stories are rarely aliyopewa attention. With our group we had roleplays all the time, foramu included. The stories were not aliyopewa attention usually unfortunately, but it was active at the very least.
Unfortunately everything from our group to many others lacked the drive to stick to it; not in the sense of staying with the community, but seeing every even through. “Hey I made a contest. Who wants to join?” “Hey I’m making a comic” “Hey I’m making a game” “Hey, Art-trade” “Hey I’m uandishi a story” “Hey I ilitumwa this new roleplay/forum”. Rarely were these things finished. I know of VERY few people that actually finished any of my roleplays personally, and I’m sure others feel the same.
Yes I had an impact on this community, but what about people like NumnumnYellow? She had the same religious mindset and she left. Her reason? Well the same as many others. They grew out of it. They got bored. It wasn’t amounting to anything.
That seems to be what is happening nowadays to everything. I don’t want to believe the Sonic Fanchise is dying, au it’s fanbase, but I have found such a small amount of activity on the internet concerning fan-characters that it’s… depressing.
We can all start up as large groups, but those groups shrink, then break up, and become smaller groups, and those smaller groups DON’T mix. With each fall a percent (lets’ say 20%) of members go away. So let’s say 100 members start out. That turns into 80 which turns into 40 for two different groups. That’s already less than half. Then those groups lose 20% which is 8 members leaving two zaidi lesser groups from that making 12 for each group.
So what do wewe want? To leave? If wewe start anew I wish wewe all the best of luck but this is not a good omen.
To those who’s minds are made up and want nothing zaidi to do with this, I understand. I will not attack wewe for wanting to leave but I cannot help but feel upset that there are now less people to talk with.
To those who are willing to discuss what is right and wrong; what is required and what it is simply something being clung to regardless of it not being required, we can discuss.
To those who plan to stay here, the life of our community depends on you. I hate to say this but I am tired of pulling the weight from almost everything here.
This isn’t just our group, this is the Sonic Fandom.
age: 16
backstory: cather was made kwa dr.eggman's grandfather before shadow but was somehow destroyed kwa sonic,her mission was to destroy sonic but now dr.eggman remade cather and made her stronger then sonic and his Marafiki kwa puting zaidi abilltys like this: fire,earthquakes,destrution,and zaidi impossible powers,she usally has a crush on shadow but doesnt onyesha it,later she teamed up with shadow in the early days.....now she walks alone and no one seen her again,but shadow has ture feeling for cather and will avenge her on any cost.......
inayopendelewa color: bloody red,
evil au good: darkness evil
likes: shadow,darkness,mephiles *cause their BDF's that the word best darkness friends*dr.eggman,rouge *Again another BDF*
her BDF'S *best darkness friends*: mephiles,rouge,dr.robotnik,nazo,metal sonic,and tails doll,
Meh....
If wewe didn't know, I'll break the sad(in my opinion)news. MephilesTheDark, an awesome artist and a close e-buddy to me, is leaving this spot. Sure I cried, but now...I'm getting kind of angry.
She mentioned this: "It's so damned with recolors...", along with other reasons that she knows herself.
I, now am slightly mad with recolorers. Yes, this issue is argued about constantly, and people just are tired of it. I'm tired of it too, so I'll let this go after a while. So don't expect me in the recolor "war" anytime soon.
But this is not a "PLZCOMEBACK!!!!" letter, that would be....well, stupid, to say the least. I just felt the need to say this. I can understand why she decided to leave, and will not swali any further.
...I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
~Jeremiah 31:13
If wewe didn't know, I'll break the sad(in my opinion)news. MephilesTheDark, an awesome artist and a close e-buddy to me, is leaving this spot. Sure I cried, but now...I'm getting kind of angry.
She mentioned this: "It's so damned with recolors...", along with other reasons that she knows herself.
I, now am slightly mad with recolorers. Yes, this issue is argued about constantly, and people just are tired of it. I'm tired of it too, so I'll let this go after a while. So don't expect me in the recolor "war" anytime soon.
But this is not a "PLZCOMEBACK!!!!" letter, that would be....well, stupid, to say the least. I just felt the need to say this. I can understand why she decided to leave, and will not swali any further.
...I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
~Jeremiah 31:13
Danny the hedgehog
Species: Hedgehog
Sex: Male
Hight: 3.3 ft
fur, manyoya color: Blue and Purple
Shoes: Black boots with a light blue tip
eye color: Blue
Family:...dont ask him, hes whole family died
Power: Controls all matter
Things he likes: Running, relaxing, Reading, uses power to save his friends...it happens all the time, being with Ame.
Things he hates, Death, Fighting, Evil, That freaken Blue running version of him..sorry to all the sonic fans, guns, seeing ppl sad.
Skills, Sword fighting, using matter, landing perfectly, helping ppl out.
Short bio: After his whole family died he had 2 save someone that was trapped inside a rose for 200 yrs and reclaim his broken, pointless life and help her out of the rose.
Species: Hedgehog
Sex: Male
Hight: 3.3 ft
fur, manyoya color: Blue and Purple
Shoes: Black boots with a light blue tip
eye color: Blue
Family:...dont ask him, hes whole family died
Power: Controls all matter
Things he likes: Running, relaxing, Reading, uses power to save his friends...it happens all the time, being with Ame.
Things he hates, Death, Fighting, Evil, That freaken Blue running version of him..sorry to all the sonic fans, guns, seeing ppl sad.
Skills, Sword fighting, using matter, landing perfectly, helping ppl out.
Short bio: After his whole family died he had 2 save someone that was trapped inside a rose for 200 yrs and reclaim his broken, pointless life and help her out of the rose.
hi guyz im bak. sum1 ban me so i make new acount. i also hav english lesons now!11
i may make the od typo but dont buly me plz.
aslo wat iz up with ppl hateng reclors?? i luv thm so evry1 shud luv them. spred teh luv <3333
this acont also gut baned but itz unbannd now so im bakc! :) but if u ban me agen i wil kepp comign bakc so no zaidi ban plaese?
i wil continu to maek charicters and u wil luv them all! i will submit sum of them soon they are soooooooo kawaii =^_________________^=
i hope no 1 bans me again bcuz i done noting rong.
if u do ban me i wil get u nd it wil nut b pritty.
i luv u all. but ppl with orignal charcters must haet recolors so i dun, waliopelekwa liek wewe ppl who try hard wen yuo maek chars.
c u arond the culb!111
i may make the od typo but dont buly me plz.
aslo wat iz up with ppl hateng reclors?? i luv thm so evry1 shud luv them. spred teh luv <3333
this acont also gut baned but itz unbannd now so im bakc! :) but if u ban me agen i wil kepp comign bakc so no zaidi ban plaese?
i wil continu to maek charicters and u wil luv them all! i will submit sum of them soon they are soooooooo kawaii =^_________________^=
i hope no 1 bans me again bcuz i done noting rong.
if u do ban me i wil get u nd it wil nut b pritty.
i luv u all. but ppl with orignal charcters must haet recolors so i dun, waliopelekwa liek wewe ppl who try hard wen yuo maek chars.
c u arond the culb!111
Age:19
Gender: female
Race:Squirrel
DARK, HERO, NEUTRAL: hero
Special Power (if any): nothing unique
*Flight, Speed, au Power: Power
Silly was born into a family of pirates, and most of her life was spent on the family ship, named the Crusader with her father's crew, the Straw Hats. she has two brothers that are twins, Monkey and Brick. she has one older sister, who is now the captain of the Straw Hats, Lilly Crusader. Silly has excellent fighting skills, and is pretty good with a hand gun. right now, she lives in London, England with her friend Shadow DCE. until Lilly decides Silly is ready to take over as captain, Silly will be a member of the chaotix. her best friend is Vector. as wewe might of guessing, adores sailing of any kind.