An Official Sonichu Update

In this video Chris begins to settle into the pattern of using his YouTube account to keep his fanbase updated on his business. He concedes that Encyclopedia Dramatica has successfully raised the funds needed to remain operation, despite his best efforts, although he does not really admit failure in his campaign.

Chris also denies the reports on /v/ (later added to the ED page) that anon successfully stole his Sonichu medallion. In this video he employs a clever bluff, claiming to have multiple copies of the medal so that trolls will never know if they are stealing the true, official, original medallion or a decoy. Until the medallion was successfully stolen two months later, many were convinced that Chris indeed had multiple Sonichu medallions. However, as Chris himself revealed in his August 8, 2008 video, the original medallion has special markings on the back to authenticate itself, so no one believed it would be difficult to get the real one.

Chris then spends the bulk of the video inviting his personal army to contact Nintendo and Sega to pressure them to create Sonichu merchandise.

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This is an official update to all the loyal Sonichu fans on the Internet and everywhere else. Well, first off, th-while the Encyclopedia Dramatica page, the whole website, they, uh, did manage to get their ill-gotten money. But I say ['flips off viewer'] screw them. ['twists middle finger into ear'] In the EEEEEYAAAAR!

Well anyway, uh, aside from that note, let's get down to our serious measures. Well, th--well I have been hearing the rumor of the medallion-stealing, as you can see, it's still on me man, ain't nobody going to get it off me, 'cause more security measures have been taken. This one might be the real one, this one might be the false one. How are you to know? Hmmm, that's for your own understanding.

But aside from that, I wish to let you all know about how you can actually, officially have your own officially approved by myself and distribute, have your own officially approved and well-distributed similar medals. Okay, well, first off, about, uh, 2005 I sent a letter to Nintendo of America telling them about, informing them about my idea--and let me make it perfectly clear, perfectly clear: Parodies are legal to copyright. They c--as long as they don't claim to be the original, or never intend to be, they are spoofs, parodies, and they are, aforemost, legal.

So anyway, I sent a letter to Nintendo of America in April of 2005 and they sent me back a reply in the big envelope which I will now read to you a few quotes from as to like, uh, how they have...res--felt about the idea. So, in the first, so, just give you a few quotes here, so like they say, uh:

"We appreciate you taking the time to share your great Sonichu game idea with us"

And uh... yeah... it says here that, uh, yeah, it goes on to say that:

"Nintendo of America has some of the most devoted, enthusiastic fans of any game developer. Each week they receive hundreds of thousands of suggestions about their games and systems. While they would love to use ideas from fans to develop actual products, due to the volume of the requests they receive and the resources it would take to process them, they do not accept unsolicited game or product ideas. But they are committed to being at the leading edge of game and hardware development, though, and they can be sure that they are constantly working to develop new products and games ideas."

Now, here's the interesting part where they quote about how I can actually go further about, about them changing their minds and actually accepting the idea and helping me, uh, making it, making it totally real, with the video games and the TV animations and the action figures, and officially released, personally-approved medals. Instead of some crappy sugar cookie imitations, that like, you have seen in that pictures. Hey, they give me a free sample of that at the grocery store. It was delicious, that sugar cookie. And this is not a sugar cookie. This? Hard plastic. Haaaard plastic. I tell you what.

But anyway, getting back to the letter, they say that, uh [paraphrasing the letter] the best way to let other fans know about my idea or to generate hype about the future game I'd like to see is post the ideas to the forums on their site. Well like, I say, you all, like I've done, done better than that, hey: The website. The MySpace page. The group on the MySpace.com. And so many other things--some, a few videos on YouTube about myself. And you know what--hey, think about this--you help m--you lis--you take part of this, and you might be able to actually see official releases of the DVD I put together and--about when I turned twenty-five! Hooray.

All right, so anyway, getting back to that, what you can do to see all this in fruition and officially approved distribution, you go to nintendo.com. I-if you have an account, or if you don't have an account, you get yourself signed up for free. Talk about Sonichu, build up more hype in their forums everywhere, send them e-mails requesting that they bring them to frui-fruition, they talk to me about, about, about bringing all that to fruition. Send them the e-mails, handwritten letters to their official building in Seattle, Washington. You get the address off the back of any Nintendo of America distributed game--software. Also you could send such letters and e-mails in possible forms suggestions towards Sega of America. Do one or the other, or I would recommend doing both, sending the cop-, sending one to the other and the copy to the-, sending one copy to one and the copy to the other. You do that, and I will guarantee the more likely success of distribution of the official video games I've been dreaming of in my head, [sighs] you will definitely see more comic books, you will definitely see animations and distributions of official action figures and approved medals.

So there, that's all you've got to do. Let Nintendo and Sega know about the hype, send them your personal requests and everywhere, tell them to talk to meeee, they both--Nintendo of America and sen-and Sega of America--they know my address and my phone number, they have it in their systems. So, talk to them, have them talk to me. Bring the Sonichu idea to fruition!

And there's da update for now. Thank you for listening.