Welcome to /sssr/'s very own Sonic Underground thread! This thread is for posting links to Tamers' latest videos and for discussion between the 4chan threads. The occasional NSFW image is allowed provided you tag it as NSFW.
Links: >Tamers' YouTube: //youtube.com/watch?v=Tamers12345/videos >Archive of everything Tamers-related https://www.tamersarchive.com/ >Tamers' current Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTamers12345 >Tamers' Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Tamers12345
FAQ:
What is this? Tamers12345 is an artist with a single burning passion: the revival of the hit TV series Sonic Underground. Empowered by his love of SU and Bardonic (Bartleby x Sonic), Tamers has been working tirelessly for over a decade to raise the popularity of SU and force Sega to continue the show. Tamers' continuation of SU takes the form of animations released fortnightly that follow the cast's ongoing adventures. If you can look past the text to speech voices you'll find a genuinely compelling show that's a mix between Always Sunny (where everyone's an asshole yet still likeable) and The Venture Bros (with its surprisingly deep lore and a running theme of the present not living up to the expectations of the past).
Is Tamers being ironic? No. Tamers has been making videos since 2010, and has hundreds of hand-drawn SU comics dating back to the early 00s.
Are the fans ironic? Also no. While most of us started watching it out of morbid curiosity, we came to love the characters and their struggles.
Okay, but how do I get into it? Just watch a few of his recent longer videos to see if it's something you're into. This playlist is a bit outdated, but has all of the main episodes up until 2021: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0U9kJDLvLDwDJ66rmlSyaqYsB8MPxCH0
So who is Tamers really? A small number of people seem to fixate on just who the guy inside the cardboard Bartleby costume is. The answer is he's just a guy that really likes Sonic Underground.
>>683 We all know this would just get deleted too >>684 The board's name is cyrillic for The Super Special Sonic Ride, which ends up with the same acronym for the cccp/ussr
In case anyone is wondering about why so many posts are deleted on 4/co/, it's because of an unhinged janny we refer to as IDWkun or Archie-schizo. He's an obsessed loser that's been kicked out of every Sonic forum on the internet that took up a janny position for 4/co/ and 4/vg/ a few years ago. He's got backing by the mod ABIB (40+ Nintendofag that's still living the console wars of the 90s and hates Sonic) and has been given free reign to shit up any and all Sonic threads. Fun fact: ABIB is the mod that told /sthg/ anyone discussing the Sonic movie would be banned and is suspected to be the one that kept deleting all the Sonic movie threads on 4/co/. We eventually had enough of him shitting up the Sonic Storytime threads on 4/co/ and moved our main discussions here where we're actually allowed to talk about a blue hedgehog without our posts being deleted or him spamming gore.
Oh, and here's the archive of the post where he fucked up and got outed as a janny: https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/414233664/#414242537 I'd be careful posting this link on 4/co/ since it'll get you a 3 day ban
>>704 >>705 Yeah, plus4chan's very comfy for relaxed discussion. It's pretty much 4chan but before the rot set in. Being able to post audio files and videos with sound is nice too >>708 Close! There's a NSFW button you need to press. >>710 That's it!
>>721 To be fair, he's an old man with lots of practice. You can tell that he's put tremendous time and energy into making art by looking at a catalogue of his pieces. If he wasn't able to break the rules that Loomis tries to put down, then he wouldn't be nearly as awe-inspiring as he typically is. I'm just glad that he's on our side. I couldn't imagine /co/ threads without Rick motivating everyone to take a stab at drawing. AleenaEnjoyer is probably the most improved artist that Tamers threads has, and other artists have popped out of the woodwork on Newgrounds in celebration of Sonic Underground. For a hot minute I took a stab at drawing MSPaint doodles, but I needed to give it up due to a lack of free time and privacy. There's nothing worse than being forced to share a dormitory room with a stranger because university is too cheap to rent out single rooms.
Gonna do my annual rewatch of the whole series for the third time. Every rewatch I always find something new to enjoy, also it's crazy to see how far Tamers has come in terms of storytelling and animation. Too bad the pumpkin patch video got taken down.
>>723 He's got a wonderful style that he's put a huge amount of effort into and is also really nice to talk to. Yeah, I'd like to do some drawings of Sleet and Dingo, but I never seem to find the time >There's nothing worse than being forced to share a dormitory room with a stranger because university is too cheap to rent out single rooms. Shit, that sounds awful. I know colleges have been for-profit hellholes for a while but they're so much worse now >>724 I think it's Libre by Nino Bravo >>728 >Too bad the pumpkin patch video got taken down. Should be in the archive at least
>>729 >Should be in the archive at least btw, anyone have a link to the archive? All I have is Flora Reading The Bible because I like talking about Christianity and The Bible with my Dad despite not really being religious.
This is a man who understands me on a philosophical level. Anyone can make shitty smut whenever they want to. This is a fact of life. In fact, the entire Japanese, Korean, and Chinese economies rely on this. If it wasn't for their ability to create base, soulless, bug-person graphic pornography, their countries would go back to being the shitholes they were when the British started taking over the world. Meanwhile, it takes a genius, and auteur, and, dare I say it, a man to create something as vibrant and powerful as Queen Aleena the Hedgehog of Planet Mobius. Throughout the Beginning Era to the Golden Era, she was always beautiful, intelligent, and devilish. Can tell me of another woman who was clever enough to make backwater tribals worship her children as gods? I didn't think so. But now, in the Messiah Era, Aleena has been allowed to come into her own... and as God is my witness, that makes me want to come into her.
>>689 Still letting you know I'm interested getting those keychains, don't let the other fags say otherwise of what I think. Still need my favorite autist/hedgehog MILF with me at all times.
>>742 Don’t take things over the internet too personal. You had no way of knowing that you were breaking a cultural taboo by replying to and encouraging the Carlos copycat. To be very clear, Carlos was an underage funposter that stopped talking after he got doxxed, which helped to keep Sonic Underground threads clean. Try to avoid responding or interacting with namefags on any board in the future. It may just save your life!
Oh, and here's my absolute favorite scene in all of Tamers' work. It's got something for everyone: great animation, cool one-liners, Sonic and Sleet actually doing something, stock images of hands holding guns, and most importantly, Aleena being dead inside >>740 Very nice!
Oh, and in case anyone's wondering why I use a capcode, it's because I run the website for the Sonic storytime (https://the-ride.neocities.org/ if anyone's interested) and I kbf turning it off since all the regulars recognize my posting style anyway >>746 It's just how YouTube is. You can't say anything too rude or do anything that might jeopardize their ad revenue. Fortunately Tamers has been able to successfully fight off most of his YouTube takedowns, even those from Disney >>747 If that's actually you Carlos, it's because you're underage and generally shit up every thread you enter. You need to stay away from adult spaces because you're frankly a prime target for grooming and it's only a matter of time before you're some pervert's discord kitten. I'm sure you think you're too savvy for that to happen to you but I guarantee that's exactly what the perverts are counting on
>>755 He's already been groomed. He spends all day every day on forums about europeans talking about how he wishes he was white and he can't talk to girls because of his race. /pol/ got to him and now he shits up everything he finds.
From the other thread https://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/143185302 https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/143185302
>>765 I hope he breaks out of prison and tries to lay low with the Hedgehogs >>768 That's a good point. I figured he'd end up some pervert's cocksleeve, but /pol/ will ensure he never knows the joy of romance, or even friendship >he wishes he was white and he can't talk to girls because of his race That's hilarious. Panama's probably the last country in the world where he'd need to worry about that considering 65% of the population is mestizo and only 7% is white
>>775 It's sad, really. Self hatred for something you can't control is a terrible mindset to have, especially as a minor that can have long lasting mental issues. I hope he grows out on it for his own sake.
>>793 Yeah, he may be irritating, but I genuinely feel sorry for him. Still, he's young enough to unlearn those behaviors and live a normal life if he really wants to
>>846 >proof? what forums? https://www.theapricity.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?129-Espa%F1a Here's one, there's more but they're hard to find since most of them aren't in English. He goes by "Spate Hicks" on most of them
>>862 I hadn't seen that thread, but I'll have to check it out. I actually started this one because I knew Tamers would be releasing a video in the next couple of days and wanted to make an op that had the right links and answers to common questions. The jannies over on 4/co/ have been pretty draconian with Sonic threads so I was hoping to give those anons somewhere to post freely without being harassed
New vid just dropped, in which Tamers adapts Peter Pan while refusing to watch it: Peter Pan 4/co/ thread: https://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/143394467 https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/143394467
>>1331 One of my favorite parts in the entire series I love all the crude, racy, poopy humor, but I think what I love even more is the parts played straight (ironic, I know)
I've been watching this series for as long as I can remember and I must say, I don't think we'll get another episode as perfect as "Doctor Robotnik has had ENOUGH" for a long time, everything since has either been "pretty ok", unremarkable or (as much as I hate to say it) filler. Nowadays Tamers12345' seems more interested in pandering to the 4chan part of the audience through making certain characters appear when not necessarily needed and writing in what feels like a half hearted "I'm in on the jokes too guys" style through using terms like "larping" and making other "muh heckin 4cuck culture" references here and their. The worst part is, is that I wouldn't mind all this if the episodes now didn't feel so boring and aimless in my opinion of course. Older episodes from what I've seen from my own eyes were mostly centered on the trio of Relatability, Humor and Realism and all three of those things have been cucked in one way or another due to Tamers slowly running out of ideas and once again leaned towards referencing and "bending the knee" to the 4chan audience to an extent by pushing in scenes centred on the "muh heckin waifu!!" characters more and more to the point where actual important members of the background cast are left out or given the short end of the stick. In my opinion of course.
>>1337 Pandering is the worst thing an artist can do, and he doesn't even need to pander anymore, this episode was shit, Tamers even admitted it, and people were still pretending it was good and still slobbering over Flora, when she wasn't even in it. He's got lifers, he should be able to do what he wants without worrying about them unsubbing
>>1340 Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about the new episodes. I almost feel bad for Tamers12345 (my interpretation of him of course since it's pretty common knowledge that no-one can see eye to eye online about "Tamers12345 The Person" since everyone almost has a personal idea of "who he should be" in their heads based on scraps of info and tidbits but anyway.) as he's pretty much backed into a corner of sorts now, he now has a pretty audible chunk of the fan-base who only watch the series for certain characters bitching and whining online due to characters not appearing and he's more or less forced to put them in to keep up discussion for the episodes one way or another, most threads if not all die out pretty quick when certain characters aren't shown due to the aforementioned chunk of the audience not having any new content of certain characters to milk dry. But at the end of the day, (Not to sound like a faggot but) I'll still continue to love the old episodes, openings, endings, music choice, lore, old character traits long gone, old writing style (once again) long gone etc etc and unless his channel and archives get nuked, nothing will change that fact, or something like that (inb4 "not your personal blog")
Are we really bringing this stupid whiny shit here as well? >muh pnadering!!! Boohoo the character you like hasn't shown up in awhile. The writing has changed, the jokes haven't changed, you're just butthurt he doesn't care about YOUR favorite character as much. It became pretty apparent when you randomly started complaining about Flora when she wasn't even mentioned at all (and truthfully she would've actually fit in this episode as tinkerbell since she's actually a pixie) and yet you cry that he's including characters in episodes when they don't belong? Why should you decide that? Tamers has, and always will, make whatever the fuck he wants. He panders to himself and puts out what he wants to see without fear of other people giving a shit. Stop your bitching and just watch the old shit if you're so upset.
i'll believe tamers isn't pandering to florafags when he does something that would piss them off, even make them unsub to his patreon, like say that flora doesn't actually have autism or make her trans