Longtime Sonic Fan Site TSSZ News Permanently Closes After 21 Years
Longtime Sonic fan site TSSZ News has permanently closed. The fan site has a huge legacy in the community primarily known for covering Sonic news, along with reviews and opinionated articles. TSSZ News primarily consisted of SSF1991, Noah Copeland, BlazeHedgehog, and site owner Tristan as writers.
Tristan the owner of TSSZ News made the decision to start using the site’s Twitter account as a personal account. Tristan posted a tweet which compared current events to Sonic being chased by G.U.N in Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Forces‘ plot. A lot of TSSZ’s followers found this distasteful and expressed so, including staff. This ultimately resulted in Tristan making the decision to permanently close the site. Unfortunately, the site’s sudden closure resulted in articles being lost.
Thank you.
Everything is an extraordinary circumstance right now. Too much is happening that makes Sonic, Sega, or video game news, frankly, unimportant. 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.
This site and those behind it have been accountable to you for the better part of 21 years. Amid our strong coverage of community events, stories that drew the ire of movers and shakers at every level, and Tweets that did little to navigate the waters of the social media cesspool, all of it was with the intent to make you think. The collective success of our team members, past and present, leaves no doubt of our impact.
Much will be speculated about closing in our current climate. Silence, indeed, is not an option. This platform has championed and molded change for nearly its entire tenure. With what is in front of all of us, it can no longer effectively do so–certainly not without continued deluded pleas for escapism and ignorance.
There is nothing to celebrate in this decision. Another voice in the community is lost. Another avenue for accountability is cut off. Another perspective on the world around us is gone. With any luck, better voices and perspectives will replace it.
TSSZ has endured 21 years of strong reporting born from strong collective decisions that few ever see or know of. There is little else for the platform to prove. Our team, now largely comprised of working adults, has bigger to fish to fry, and better lives to live.
As for me, T, I encourage all in these times to use their platform for a greater good. If the messages and issues you’ve seen from me here and elsewhere weren’t effective, craft better messages. It’s easy to shout people down, and cancel people and content you don’t agree with. It’s more difficult to take the uncomfortable step into the shoes of an agent for change–for yourself, and for others. I am confident in the collective power of the community this platform has covered for over 20 years to do just that.To a good future. © TSSZ News LLC 1999-2020
TSSZ News’ front page.
TSSZ News’ closure is a huge loss for the Sonic community. We hope TSSZ’s writers can recover all of their articles and move forward. We wish them all the best for the future.
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