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Currently trying to find a source for this, but it explains the changes
DEI has officially taken over Sonic the mother-fucking Hedgehog.
If it reads like an article, but you can't find any results by quote-searching a string of a few words from it, just assume it's fake. Articles get more money the more clicks they have, so any real one would be deliberately as easy to find as possible. Its use of the word "suggest" means it definitely isn't an internal document either, in case somebody tries to claim that. When it comes to anything like this, people love passing around shit they made up to try and fan the flames or get people on their side, like the fake NoA Employee from the Paper Mario remake earlier this year that got thoroughly debunked within a couple hours of being posted.
Looking at the excerpt closer, it reads like AI. Also, nobody on earth, not even the lowliest, dumbest, most shameless grifter journalist would write a whole article about this shit this soon into it, poring over every individual minor change and writing multiple paragraphs about each one. If I was ever writing an article with an entire subsection titled "Sonic's Interaction with Amy: A Shift in Perception," about Amy saying something slightly different to Sonic in a game that isn't even new in a scene with no bearing on the story whatsoever, I would close my laptop right there and take every pill in my medicine cabinet at once and then shoot myself.
In fact, no human would write it like that at all. It'd be like if you were writing a paper about something you bought at the grocery store and titled it "The Item From the Store" instead of whatever the actual thing is. The easy explanation for this is that phrasing similar to "Sonic's interaction with Amy" was used somewhere in whatever prompt was given to the AI to get it to explain the reasoning behind the change, so it reused the wording to best match the user's input. I couldn't tell you what AI in particular this was—I like to throw around ChatGPT's name the most, but at lower temperatures it sounds too dry to be that distinct from the others unless it's making a list—but I'm certain it's written by generative AI.
Whether it's someone who was looking to cut corners when making their fake culture wars ammunition, or a 16-year-old keyboard warrior retard who thinks AIs are 100% accurate search engines and anything they spit out is verified to be the truth and genuinely believed it when he posted it, who knows. I'm willing to accept that I'm wrong since I'm just eyeballing it here, but until I find a link to an article containing that text from an actual site, I cannot be convinced otherwise.