Sonic For Real Justice Meme Review

Will Eland | They/Them

It’s been five years. I need to get something off of my chest. What the fuck was Sonic For Real Justice?

The day was the 30th of May, 2015. A new Tumblr blog was created with one goal in mind: answer asks as Sonic characters while promoting how much Social Justice Warriors sucked. 

The blog gained notoriety for Mod Shadow’s introduction being one of the most earnestly pretentious and asshole-ish things to be floating around at the time. The blog became a sensation when Mod Silver got scared of the amount of asks they were receiving and, within 24 hours of the blog’s inception (and before he introduced himself!), closed the ask box. Mod Amy immediately banned Mod Silver, started bullying him, and reopened the ask box. Honestly, this is the crux of the matter, but a lot more happened after that.

Tumblr decided Mod Sonic had BPD. Mod Knuckles was hired to make peace, then banned within a week. Mod Tails claimed Mod Amy was harassing him. Mods Sonic and Amy turned out to be dating. Mod Tikal came out, and was banned for being a ‘special snowflake’. After about a month, the blog faded into history, became a Naruto RP blog. Then that died and it became a Sonic blog once again.

If you are confused, dear reader, then congratulations! That is the correct way to feel. I could explain more, but I fear that would only raise more questions in your mind. 

Witnessing this train crash in real time was surreal, and only compounded by how obsessed everyone was with this weirdly bigoted Sonic blog. ‘Justice for Mod Silver’ was everywhere, despite the fact it later turned out Mod Silver had orchestrated the whole thing to prove Mod Amy was an asshole.

And therefore, all of Mod Silver’s actions were a performance. Making Sonic For Real Justice… performance art. So, without further adieu, I present;

A review of Mod Silver in Sonic For Real Justice (as a performance art piece).

I do not think that anyone suspected Silver. I mean, what little interaction we had with him before The Ban was very convincing of someone… meek. Of a Silver scared of what hubris his group had brought into the world, in the form of an overflowing askbox that could never be emptied. 

The original rules of the page supported this depiction: “Be nice to Mod Silver” was there from the start (and very quickly changed to “Be mean to Mod Silver”). It was also successful in colouring the public opinion of Mod Amy, with hundreds of callout posts within hours of The Ban and many more demanding justice. 

I cannot in any good conscience recommend this as a course of action, but it was undeniably a well-done performance. Silver destroyed Mod Amy’s reputation, his friend group, and eventually, the page.

Out of the ashes of the old mod group rose Silver, in control now and having achieved everything he wanted out of his performance.

I really hope it was a performance.