April Fool’s Day is one of the worst days of the year to cover news. Treading carefully as you sift through what’s real and what’s a joke. It doesn’t all make for a nerve-wracking shift behind the news desk, though. Some April Fool’s stuff is downright amusing, like the moderators of theSonicsubreddit changing its profile icon to a picture of Sonic and Shadow making out and then watching the hedgehog’s community have a meltdown over it.

The Sonadow image replaced the regularly scheduled picture of an Eggman logo on an LGBTQ+ flag as an April Fool’s joke. However, the gag was such a hit that the subreddit’s moderators decided to leave it up beyond April 1. “We received a surprising amount of positive feedback on the Sonadow profile icon! In response, we would like to ask the community if you’d like to see the Sonadow icon used for the remainder of April,” moderators asked, providing a poll.

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The icon has been changed back to the Eggman one for now, but the poll, which is still open, is an incredibly close-run thing. So much so that moderators have said if it swings back the other way, Sonadow will return. Of the 5,200 votes cast so far, a little less than 52 percent of them are in favor of Eggman’s return.

Sonic fans have been unable to simply vote and move on while the results are tallied, of course. Not only has a fierce debate broken out in the replies to the poll, but other satellite posts have spun off in which the joke, and whether it should remain in place, is being hotly debated. While much of the chatter is amusing, like fans labeling it Sonadow Week and even Sonadow Spring, others have gotten predictably homophobic with it as moderators have been forced to delete a lot of comments.

Sonic had a pretty busy April Fool’s asSega revealed the world’s favorite hedgehog has died. An announcement that would normally be chalked up as a joke considering its proximity to April 1, but this was no prank. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is real and tasks you with figuring out who murdered the blue blur, andfans want to know if its story is canon or not.

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