looking at “cringe sonic ocs” and it reminds me that people usually stop calling it cringe only if and when the art is supposedly good. like ive seen several suddenly get banger updated art a decade later and theyre “awesome now”. like you cant act like you didnt dog on it in winters past bc now it “looks good”. you aren’t suddenly “in on the joke”, you’re the one that turned someone’s special guy into a target in the first place. eat my shoe
you’re not cool for shitting on ocs.
and this goes for any and all ocs/aus. your self insert, your recolor, your sonas, your oc x canon, your mary sue, your fankid/family, your edgelord, your joke ocs, even your random background characters etc. they’re all important because they were made by someone. nobody’s oc is more valid than the other just because its “drawn/designed/written better” or their origins are “pure”. you can’t gatekeep how or why ocs are made. bullying people for having fun is a loser profession.
to those who have faced this bullying, you may try to hide and attempt to exclude yourself from this post because you’re embarrassed. maybe you did write and share self-servicing stories of everyone falling in love with your self insert at age 11 on wattpad. but at the end of the day it made you happy; those who shun you chose to feel that way, you did not make them.
please be kind to your past “cringe”, because that was once your present happiness.
and dearly behated, “cringe aficionados”, self-employ some fucking childish wonder and go make an oc.
