yall did younger me dodge a bullet-
So apparently alot of people grew up with the weirdest YouTube content known to man. I mean like The fucking content farm channels we have now but weirder.
I never experienced that?! My YouTube experience was watching this one kid play with Sonic plushies making weird yet oddly entertaining stories (low-key wish I remember the name of the channel of videos because nostalgia)
I was obsessed with these, and these videos were how I discovered my love for sonic as a whole, a love I still have now (I'm just not the most open about it)
Then I got yt taken away and would rewatch The adventures of Sonic the hedgehog over and over until the next time I had a device with YT access.
During this second time of having yt access, I would discover a few sonic channels that changed the very way I act (as well as discovering Sonic. Exe and the Tails Doll which still low-key haunt me. Especially those super well drawn renders... Eugh..)
These channels were Sonic and Tails pals, a very kid friendly reaction channel that pretended to be sonic characters. But the next few channels weren't as family friendly, the first of these being a Channel named shadow the hedgehog. I recently revisited the channel for nostalgia and boy. Has it changed. For the worse- now what do I mean by not as family friendly? WELL *ahem* it wasn't as bad as it could have been but it did involve swearing *which later either was censored or completely removed as time went on* as well as a lovely book of sex jokes. And a high implication that Shadow attempted to get Rouge drunk (as well as being drunk himself) to have sex with her, only to have been implied to have done it with Kermit the frog who basically was always high. It's hard to explain you just gotta watch it to know .-. but is was this shit that stuck in my brain and formed the way I thought. It also made me discover being gay is ok-
NOW THOS WASNT THE ONLY CHANNEL FROM MY CHILDHOOD, OH NO NO NO!!
*ahem* we have, TheblueBlur, aka not family friendly Sonic's channel, knuckles the echidna, infinite the jackle, Metal sonic, and many other channels like this, which all apparently worked together.
These channels were goofy reaction and VR chat channels that I was obsessed with.
I know these channels shaped how I think and what I found amusing because it made me go from perfect little daughter to not straight and more of a anarchist than ever.
But I also wonder what I would be like today if I had watched shit like Funvideotv or something of that nature rather than the shit I watched (which I'ma be honest didn't shock me as a kid because I had been watching Futurama since I was like 4)
Anyway I'm done rambling about my weird childhood, I'm Dotty, and I need therapy