TSSZ, one of the best-known places for the world's most famous porcupine stalwarts, disappears.
TSSZ, one of the main pages around the Sonic fandom, has suddenly closed its doors after 21 years active with regular content. Along with Sonic Stadium, the Sonic subreddit, Sonic Retro and a couple of other sites, it was one of the main gathering places for the diverse community around the Sega mascot, which has come to an end after the owner you have decided overnight to dismantle the entire site and make it inaccessible.
"Our community and our world demands better, but now does so to unsustainable extremes. And in that, TSSZ can no longer be the platform it should be. The decision has been made to permanently close TSSZ, effective immediately."
We will not be missed. https://t.co/knooFSGCfy
– TSSZ (@tssznews) May 31, 2020
It was all due to a controversy over a tweet. The founder, Tristan Oliver, decided to justify the disturbing event coverage of the riots by the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement with an analogy about the "oppression" that Sonic lives in some installments. Given the sensitivity to the subject, the tweet was very poorly received. The response, however, by the author has been radical: the 21 years of content on the page, including thousands of texts by independent contributors and everything hosted on the forums has disappeared. When trying to access a message appears saying that "everything that is happening makes Sonic, Sega or video game news, frankly, irrelevant."
End of 20 years of monitoring Sonic
The message, which does not clarify anything and is lost in rhetoric about becoming "agents of change," does not explain the fact that a largely community job has been lost, without notice, only because of a unilateral decision by an owner who did not even It has granted a grace period so that each user could have the opportunity to archive their content, which obviously has not served the community well. A former collaborator, part of the editorial team, has already taken the license to store more than a thousand news and texts that he had made in his career, which remains as one of the (partial) files of what became the page.
