There are times when the Internet gives us moments of absolute wonderful incomprehension, as if all the errors in the world came together in one gigantic and impossible to avoid. This is the case of what Google Play has given to the world today with its particular tribute to ‘Sonic’, taking advantage of the success of the Knuckles series on HBO Max. And I assure you that you didn’t see this coming.
Cute Sonic
The idea was that the more you scrolled, the more the character would age over the years, and it was fun. The problem is that from the first image, where they were supposed to talk about Sonic from 1991, they included Tails, who didn’t appear in the saga until the sequel. But the errors were just going to accumulate one after another. One. After. Another.
Just to give a few examples: to illustrate the Sonic Frontiers, they uploaded an image from season 3 of ‘Sonic Prime’, which appeared this year; the illustration of Sonic from 1993 was from ‘Sonic Boom’ (2014); the one from 1996 was from ‘Sonic Dash’, the mobile game from 2013 from which the terrible image from the movie was originally taken (and modified) in 2020; the one from 2003 was a promotional image from ‘Sonic Jump’, from 2005… Well, you get it.
So much so that even the official account of the blue hedgehog replied to them saying “What are you doing”. Some believe it was a thread written by artificial intelligence, and that even ChatGPT provided the links to the images, and some think it was a strategy to anger the fans (for some reason) taking advantage of the character’s popularity.
In any case, Google has not given any explanations or deleted the thread, so we can only assume that someone on their team is really enjoying the chaos. The community manager is a fan of Nintendo. It couldn’t be anyone else.
