I've been hesitating to post this personal thread. Maybe it's redundant. Maybe it's just not worth bringing up somebody that brought me so much emotional pain in the past. But as of what happened recently with someone in my social circle, I feel that it's the right time to vent.

I will start this comprehensive thread by saying that it's 100% valid to feel burnt out by drama. It's also 100% valid to wanna take a break from social media just to escape from that said drama. I'm saying this because I've been in that position before. Many times actually.

Even though this account is only two months old, I've actually been on Twitter for much longer than that. I joined the Sonic fandom at around 2016 but didn't have a Twitter account until around March of 2018. Little did I knew that things would eventually turn south.

I don't usually like doing call-out posts but this (hopefully) will be the only exception. If you don't know who Dumbsville is, chances are anybody that's even aware of the shippy fandom side of Sonic, will tell you all about him.

Dumbsville is a SonicTuber well-known for his 3-part rant series on Trueloveheart94. I think everybody by now should know who he is. TLH94 was infamous for sending out death threats towards the Sonic Boom cast/crew for not getting the Sonamy moments he wanted.

True also made fun of somebody that had cancer, harassed the Cartoon Network staff, harassed Nintendo to add Amy Rose into Smash Ultimate, as well as harassing anybody that disagreed with him. He was an all-around toxic person that will carry this burden for a very long time.

You may think to yourself that Dumbsville is a saint for calling out a toxic person within the fandom. But what if I told you that he and many of his bystanders actually went out their way to continuously troll and harass Sonamy fans? Because that's what exactly happened.

When I first joined Twitter, it was during the whole RoomForOneMore movement surrounding Mania Plus, as people were wondering and speculating as to whether Amy will be playable in the DLC. So yeah, it was arguably a crazy time period to join the Sonic Twitter community for me.

And unsurprisingly, I was quite vocal during this movement. In fact, I was chatting and discussing this to a few of my former mutuals, as they were just as, if not more passionate about it than I am.

To spoil it, this experience was god dreadful and one I still to this day, wish to forget. Me and my former mutuals were constantly the targets of trolling and harassment by many of Dumbsville's followers. It seemed like every single day, we were met with more drama with them.

Dumbsville himself would constantly poke fun at the movement and the people supporting it, as well as even shoving down his own Sally Acorn/Sonally bias in the process. The people Dumbsville and his supporters targeted, mostly consisted of children and the mentally-ill.

These screenshots were taken from sonisis, who is one of the Sonamy Week Discord Server Admins. I hope she doesn't mind me qrting her thread on him, but I wanna prove my point on him targeting children and those that are mentally ill.
https://twitter.com/sonisis_/status/1224676805862232064?s=20

Speaking of Sonamy Week, he and his bystanders raided the server back in the day and sent out countless amounts of sexually explicit messages to the people in server, most of which identify themselves as minors. He joined to find new targets, and encouraged others to do the same.

I know what I'm talking about because I WAS IN THAT SERVER. And I had to witness it firsthand, just like everybody else in that server back in the day. I guess when he said it was time for anti-Sonamy Week, he really meant it.

He has made at least three videos calling out the Sonamy Week server, while also mentioning it countless times in his mixtapes. I think it's absolutely disgusting and creepy how despite his comment here, he still did what he did anyway. With some obvious backup.

He is the sole reason why I was so fucking afraid to like Sonamy back then. Some of us were lowkey tryna vibe, but because Trueloveheart exists, we had to suffer along with him.

Literally every single piece of vitriol aimed towards either Sonamy, Amy Rose, or their fans, or all of the above, were all associated with both TLH and Dumbsville. You really just have to be either a Sonamy fan or one of his victims to actually witness this whole ordeal.

And the thing is, I don't get the overall hate towards a "week" of something, when I just see it as a fancy name for a community of people that just happen to like the same damn thing.

I don't think ships are a bad thing at all. Not even back when I first got into Sonic.

What if Sonamy Week is literally the only form of happiness in somebody's life? Maybe their life sucks. Maybe they find school miserable. Maybe they have abusive parents and a shitty home life. Maybe they have no one to talk to and are all alone in this cruel world.

MAYBE they just see Sonamy as the only form of escape and their only light of happiness in their miserable lives. It may have gave them hope, gave them comfort, gave them encouragement to do whatever there is they wanna do in life.

I don't fucking know.

But no, all they get for simply being a fan, is getting dogpiled and having their only shot of happiness fucking ripped right out of them because some LEGO fuckwad on the internet normalizes this behavior in the first place.

It's absolutely ludicrous how the Sonic fanbase are constantly whining about how toxic and annoying Sonamy fans are, yet they still go out their way to belittle those same fans they claim to be toxic, even though some of us haven't even fucking done anything.

It's also ludicrous how Sonic fans are constantly whining of how the gaming community treats their fanbase just because people like Chris-Chan exists. But whenever one or a few toxic Sonamy shippers exists, people immediately jump to the conclusion that they're all the same.

It's like the fanbase is completely lying to itself by saying how friendly they are towards all kinds of fans, whether that'll be fanworks, OCs, artists, you name it. But no, Sonamy is completely out of the question and anyone that likes it are all absolute garbage human beings.

If you think I'm making all this shit up, THIS is the type of shit I had to put up with. I'm not cherry-picking here, these are all things I literally witnessed that I had to go out my way to dig up for these stuff, just to show it to you all.

And no, I ain't censoring nobody here because one, they literally put all of this out there for the world to see. And two, I want people to see how bloody immature and asinine these kids are.

@/TheAmyRoseFan was one of my former mutuals I've spoken about, who I still follow to this day. He got dogpiled a lot for participating in the RoomForOneMore movement. He wasn't even attacking anyone, yet he is constantly the target for these trolls just because TLH94 exists.

And yes, @/sonnyyoung972 was my old account before I deleted it back in 2020. I did eventually tried to call out one of these trolls, but I ended up getting dogpiled as shown a couple of tweets before.

It wasn't the fact that there were some toxic Amy fans during the RoomForOneMore movement, or that TLH participated in it. That's not the point. The point is how Sonamy fans during this time period, have become the Sonic fanbase's biggest punching bags.

People just love to take the piss out of Sonamy as well as its fans for virtually no reason, other than it makes them feel good about themselves. I had to wake up and deal with this shit EVERY SINGLE DAY of being on this bird platform, and it eventually took a toll on me.

I certainly wasn't perfect back then. I took my love for Amy Rose and Sonamy a bit too seriously. I put Amy in a high pedestal most of the time, and I couldn't take criticism in a mature manner. But nobody deserves to be harassed like that. Not to the level these people took.

Sonamy has always been my childhood OTP growing up. I wasn't even aware of what the Sonic fanbase was like back when I first got into Sonic. Everybody has childhood favorites and I can tell you that it DOES hurt when people step all over them for 100,000 other people to watch.

When I see stuff like this, it ruins my mood and day completely. You could argue that I could've just ignored them, but when you faced with this sort of content EVERY SINGLE DAY, it really does get to you and you lose a lot of your enjoyment and self-confidence.

And this shit is very personal to me, because I actually grew up living up like this. Yes, I was talking about myself. I did grew up in an abusive household with abusive parents. I was born autistic. I was bullied and alone most of my time in high school.

I was literally kicked, punched, slapped and had my head banged by the people of my own blood and I even wanted to run away at one point. So of course this shit's gonna make me uncomfortable. Especially towards a series and a character I have some emotional attachement to.

Using a children's video game character to mock an entire fanbase's intelligence is extremely insensitive, which goes to show how much this person lacks self-awareness.

This guy takes his hatred so disgustingly seriously that he even lashed out at an artist that's not even supporting the RoomForOneMore movement nor is an Amy in the traditional sense.

I have nothing else to say about these trolls other than that I hope they grow the fuck up one day. I hope they look back at this and realize how cringy they used to act. I hope so, because I can't imagine anyone acting like this unironically.

When I was watching through Dumbsville's channel, I was getting sick of him taking jabs towards Sonamy fans on his mixtapes. I was getting sick of cutaway jokes. I was getting sick of shoving down his Sally Acorn bias. And I was getting sick of seeing that fucking mug.

I was also getting sick of all these fucking people taking random Sonamy artwork they found on the internet, that artists spent a lot of time and effort into making it, only to put them under a negative light, if that means slapping them on top of a 9/11 photo.

I'm sure Amy fans would love to give Sally a chance, I know they would. But only if they were actually given a chance to actually indulge her rather than being harassed and spoon-fed into doing so.

The thing is, I wasn't around during the peak of the shipping wars. I wasn't a Sonic fan during the 2000s. I don't and will never speak for all Amy/Sonamy fans out there. I will never claim myself to be the definitive Amy fan.

So maybe you won't take me seriously. Maybe you'll think I'm just another stinkin' Sonamy supporter that doesn't care about anything in this franchise. Maybe you hate me for just existing. And you know what, that's fine. I don't care if you hate me or "muh precious OTP".

All the toxic shippy stuff from the 2000s are still out there. You just either have to look for it, or be unlucky like I was. But the thing is, I'm not holding back my feelings anymore because I'm just so sick and tired of this fucking bullshit.

Almost every single day, I wake up to another discourse within the fandom and people inside my social circle nd it completely ruins my mood.

I think we all have biases, which are all formed by our own opinions. I know I'm biased, as I myself have strong opinions. But I don't support this behavior at all.

I genuinely worry about all the values that kids younger than me will get from watching his videos.

I'm clearly not an optimistic person. I did ended up hating the Sonic fandom for a huge amount of time, and I was constantly afraid of entering any other fandom. I was in a depressive headspace. My final high school year was miserable and I felt nothing but resentment and guilt.

My Twitter presence I feel is completely opposite to my real-life. My opinions on here often appear as bold and I don't hold back from speaking my mind, whereas I'm completely introverted and awkward in real-life.

However, there is background behind my cynicism. Behind my resentment. Behind my distaste towards ships and character wars in general. And I'm just of it all. All the hate. All the drama towards a fictional character that's supposed to bring people joy. It's stupid.

I don't exactly blame the people that didn't witness any of Dumbsville's past actions and behaviors, and from the looks of it, he seems to be moving away from the Sonamy rant format and into movie reviews.

But I know for sure that he will eventually go back into making Sonamy rants. I just know it. That's what he's most well-known for. That's what his audience is expecting out of him.

It makes me sick how someone could make money off normalizing cringe culture. I'm not kidding.

As much as I detest him, I do hope that maybe, JUST MAYBE, he can finally move away from shitting on Sonamy for the fun of it.

I just have to see it. Feel free to say I have trust issues, but I'm just really really tired.

Deleting my old account at June of 2020 was arguably the best decision I could ever make on this platform. Not only because of how my old account has a lot of bad sticky stuff in the past that I no longer go by with, but I was overall burnt out by Sonic Twitter.

I was extremely grateful and lucky to get the help I wanted and needed. The therapist I talked to did help me open my mind on things and helped me be more comfortable with whatever interests I'm passionate about.

The friends I've made at my college also provided me a lot of emotional support and I'm happy that I have them. I wouldn't have them any other way.

I was kinda skeptical about going back into Twitter. I initially planned on just restricting my social circle to just @Syogren, as he's the one friend that helped go through this hardship. He understood me more than anybody and we have a great friendship going on.

I figured that if I wanted to start fresh, this is the way to go. But I'll admit that I do kinda miss the engagement I had with the fandom back then. I guess the Sonic fandom is like a fatal attraction to me. Loathe it, but somehow still wanna piece of that pie. Can't escape it.

Despite my break off Twitter, I was still *on* the site and I was surprised to see quite a modest group of Amy fans, which is something I never seen outside of my old mutuals.

Even though I still saw some toxic stuff, the lack of a Twitter account helped me fight the urge to not create one just to lash back at someone out of spite.

I guess for me, it's more to the question of how can I provide something new in this community while at the same time be a respectable human being.

People are more than welcome to disagree with me, I just had to remember every single time I post an opinion here.

I was 17 when I first joined Twitter. I am now 20, a fully-fleshed on adult going into an animation/3D modelling class. So I guess the main important thing for me to remember is just to be careful, because I certainly don't wanna end being another target of trolling again.

As somebody that was never really involved in the overall bigger fandom, I must admit that seeing people noticing and caring about my Amy Rose opinions does warm my heart a little.

I also forgot to mention that I checked back on the Sonamy Week Discord server before I left Twitter and I remember one of the rules stated that people must verify themselves, so that the admins don't let in bad apples.

This can mean anything, but I honestly see this as a sign of fear. The fear of suffering another Dumbsville apocolypse.

I just can't imagine. The stress, anxieties and traumas these people had to deal with, when trying to avoid trolls entering their server.

Dumbsville may be exposing them in the name of teaching them a lesson, and if that's the case, then he pretty much taught me to never trust any Discord servers ever again. This gatekeeping, elitist bullshit continues to destroy my soul to this very day.

Fuck Dumbsville. Fuck his channel. Fuck everything about him and everything he's known for.

Fuck EVERY SINGLE PERSON that threw a single penny to him, because they're pretty much enabling him to continue doing this shit and telling him that this behavior is a-okay.

I'm fucking sick and tired of having this guy come back into my mind every single time I look at OCs, fanart, fan communities, whatever the fuck people make and do in fandoms.

Constantly taking Sonamy artwork that real-life people sent hours and hours of their time and effort into making, only to use it to shit all over an entire fanbase for hundreds and thousands of people to see. What a sick cunt.

I had to go to fucking therapy because I couldn't find enjoyment in ANYTHING because of the fear of getting fucking dogpiled again.

I had a mental breakdown during quarantine and I even to this day, still had to block a couple of people because they thought it would be funny to post fanart of Sonic hitting Amy in a fucking SONAMY post.

My heart and soul hurts the more I repress my feelings. Some rando out there could see this thread and poke fun at me, but I don't care about that shit no more. I'm using this brid platform to expressing my heart and soul, whether those feelings would be positive or negative.

Dumbsville is the Arin Hanson/Egoraptor of the Sonamy community and nobody will convince me otherwise.