17th September, 2020: Cancel Sonic Twitter
Channel: D The Hedgehog
Date: 2020-09-19

This video is meant to be completely educational and in no way should incentivize witch-hunting, calling anybody out, or bringing any public issues to light(aside from the fact that charging for your fangames in any capacity is a pathetic, foolish practice and will put us all at risk.) I implore you read the disclaimer at the start.

People don't understand, that in order to make money while doing what you love, you have to make sure that it is legal. And in the case of fangames, that unfortunately can't happen. Monetizing creates competition against any developer company; since it takes away revenue or stock. It's a sad truth, but it's what's enforced with most publishers.

There is a balance between us as fangame devs, and SEGA as a publisher/development studio. People have fought tooth and nail to maintain this balance. Please don't make it worse.

As a footnote, I wholeheartedly apologise if anybody thought that this hashtag was meant to do harm. As stated within the video, it was nothing more than harmless fun which had spun out of control. Getting it trending was unlikely, but the events that took place resulted in a perfect storm.

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