Google picks the one fight it will never win—with Sonic fans

The all-conquering tech giant that is Alphabet, nee Google, has finally overreached itself. The Google Play X account, essentially Google's public-facing games side, decided to do its own version of a popular meme, a thread that began with these fateful words: "Sonic, but as you scroll he gets older and older."

I've been doing this job a long time, and one of my learnings is that you don't fuck about with the Sonic fans. You don't look too closely at the fanfiction, you never image search for Amy...