I need to share with all of you my experience with the music theory Youtuber Alex Yard, who chose to spend last week blowing up my notifications with constant unsolicited harassment. I apologise in advance for taking so long to speak on this 🧵
From 2022 to 2024, I was a MASSIVE fan of Alex. I loved his music theory content and I'd watch his streams at least once a week, in addition to being one of his mods. He was one of the very first people in the know about my Sonic CD project and was super supportive.

As a guy who's seen thousands of cartoons, I think its fair to say Sonic CD's intro is one of THE finest pieces of 2D animation ever made. It isn't just the insane production quality, but also how perfectly timed each moment is to the music. The guitar-riff at 0:37 SLAYS me 🔥 I've seen alot of people attribute the quality to a big-budget, but that's not at all the case lol. CD's animations were done in 4 months by a team of six people working for VERY little money. The quality is entirely due to Hisashi Eguchi's incredible direction and design-sense.

I try not to rag on 90's Sega of America too much, but it needs to be acknowledged how much snake-oil they've peddled over the years when it comes to Sonic's conception. A small thread of total BS stories pushed by SOA's former higher-ups! 🧵 Here's the old SOA President Tom Kalinske taking credit for giving Sonic his red shoes in a *published book*, despite joinning the company 3 months AFTER the Tokyo Toy Show with Sonic's finished design lmao.

One thing you might've noticed about JP Classic Sonic stuff back in the day: because the character is supposed to be American, Japanese language was *strictly forbidden*, especially in the music. This resulted in the many "mock English" Sonic vocal themes we know and love. The JP releases of the Sonic games always used English words and language exclusively. The only exceptions I can think of are the hidden staff credits in Sonic 1 and a few of the hidden images in Sonic CD.

PimpUigi, a well-known speedrunner and creator of the popular fan-mod “Sonic CD Restored”, is currently being federally investigated for serial sex-crime allegations. I have been personally reached out to by multiple of his accusers (1/25🧵) PimpUigi (real name Michael) is referenced in Chapter 8 of my Sonic CD video, and acknowledged as a research source in Chapter 33. He and I have only ever had amicable interactions, but that has zero bearing on these disturbing and specific allegations.