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Where's the African mythology?

I'm not talking about robots running around taking care of everything, but rather about people not developing as they should because of an intelligence that does everything for them when it comes to reasoning. AI was initially created as a tool for help, but we're not ready to have a tool like this without taking full advantage of it.

The artist community has become VERY suspicious because now you can't tell if a drawing is AI or not, writers are slowly losing recognition because an AI that can write a text in seconds according to what the reader wants (yes, I'm talking about C.ai and other chat bot apps), school or college students no longer think, they just do crtl+c crtl+v and done! a totally new answer! (by the way, the brain NEEDS to think to develop), not to mention that AI animations, besides NOT having any life, also take the jobs of real artists.

Amy Rose discourse has been a hot topic lately and I just wanna say something about it because as a woman who grew up in the early 2000s and was very into the Sonic franchise, I despised Amy.

And no, this wasn’t internalized misogyny, I was very much a girly girl who liked girly things. The issue was that Amy was genuinely an insufferable character in the early 2000s.

You cannot deny that her main personality trait was the fact that she was in love with Sonic. All of her character arcs in the early 2000s (if you could even call the character arcs) revolved around her chasing Sonic and wanting him to notice her.

Her entire character was centered around wanting a guy’s attention, being overly emotional, and the “annoying girl” trope.

As a little girl, I was beyond annoyed that THAT was my representation, a sexist depiction of girls dressed in pretty pink who’s dialogue mostly consisted of “SONIC SONIC SONIC”

It’s why me and a lot of other girls my age gravitated more towards Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow, literally ANYONE who wasn’t Amy. Because unlike Amy, they had an actual personality.

And yeah, there’s other female Sonic characters, but they weren’t give as much attention as Amy was since she was part of the main cast. So for a while, it was just Amy who was the only female character of focus.

Nowadays, people describe Amy as “boring” and “emotionless” when in actuality, SEGA took away everything that made her overly obnoxious. They expanded on her use of tarot cards, her love for her friends, and her kindness as a whole. It’s refreshing to see, it’s great to see actually.

And yet, people complain. People say they killed Amy’s character, that they took away everything that made Amy “Amy”.

But honestly, that is for the best. Because if Amy acted the exact same way she used to in the early 2000s, I know for a FACT that everyone would demand SEGA change it because it’s such a misogynistic way to write a female character, especially in the year of 2025.

Do you really want the old Amy back? The “Sonic we’re getting married and there’s nothing you can do about it”, the “where’s Sonic, I have to find him so we can go on a date”, the “Sonic Sonic Sonic!”

Do you really want THAT back?

She literally gets kidnapped and becomes the “damsel in distress” trope in her VERY FIRST appearance. Do you really want THAT back?

You all want to defend a female character so bad because she’s a victim of misogynistic writing that you circle back around to DEFENDING the misogynistic writing itself.

I like Amy now. I really do. I would take the modern portray of her over the early 2000s portrayal in a heartbeat.

Amy was - for the longest time - a one note caricature who's entire character was based around a man. Literally. Everything that she was, was entirely based around Sonic. Every other word out of her mouth was "Sonic is so dreamy" and if Sonic wasn't around her every word was "I wish Sonic was here, he'd know what to do".

And that's not counting the bad games where she was a violent nutjob who acted less like a girl with a crush and more like a psychopath stalker who got angry if you even dared to tell her no.