During my interactions with them, their actions did get me a bit butthurt at the time. I was used to worse things in my life so I believed I could do something about it. She was an artist and one of my best friends at the time and I, being not that familiar with trolling and kind of naive, decided to confront the trolls about it. When a friend of mine was being trolled on DeviantArt she told me about it. There's actually a story before TGT that gave birth to the comic. I posted my art and short stories on the website without much attention. How old were you when you started Tails Gets Trolled and how did you first come up with the idea for the comic? What was your original intent?Ī: I was 18 years old and I was posting my art on Deviantart for a few years before Tails Gets Trolled (TGT) existed. Q: I want to talk about the origin of Tails Gets Trolled. The places I've lived the longest have been Missouri, Florida and Kentucky. I was born in Missouri and I currently live in Missouri but I've moved around quite a bit in my life. I and my brothers have piles of unfinished stories and we're coming up with new story ideas every time an idea pops in our heads. I love creating art and trying different types of art. Before we start, can you give me a quick rundown of who you are and what you do outside of Tails Gets Trolled?Ī: I'm Lazerbot I'm 29 years old and I'm an artist/story writer. Q: Hey Lazerbot, thanks for taking the time to speak with us. After a decade of mystery, we tracked down Lazerbot to talk to him about the legend of Tails Gets Trolled, how it started, and his thoughts on the comic’s future. Was Tails Gets Trolled an elaborate parody? A genuine work of genius disguised as a Marty Stu Sonic fanfiction? Who was Lazerbot, the creator of what could well be the most awful and brilliant piece of art on the web?Įarlier this year, with the comic (seemingly) in its endgame after ten years and 24 chapters, Lazerbot announced he was leaving Tails Gets Trolled, passing the comic on to his brother and co-creator embergram and the art team that emerged around Tails Gets Trolled. This raised questions of authorial intent. The jokes seemed more intentional and genuinely hilarious, and the stories grew more complex. Over a decade, the legend of Tails Gets Trolled grew, as did the quality of the comic. The story of Tails and the trolls blossoms into an epic filled with intrigue, murder, sex, betrayal and triumph - and this is all in the first few chapters. Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny are there and in love. Mario and Luigi show up and murder their parents. The “trolls” were actually part of a larger organization of trolls seeking power. If it stopped there, it may have been worth a laugh on some forums but ultimately would have been a footnote of internet history.īut Tails Gets Trolled didn’t stop there. The grammar is brutal and the non-sequiturs ( Knuckles waking up in a drunken stupor next to Donkey Kong comes to mind) are bafflingly hilarious. Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog gets bullied by some mean teens and then he, Sonic, and Shadow argue about how best to deal with them until it ends with Shadow viciously murdering the trolls. At first, the comic is bizarre and very funny, in a "look at this crap" kind of way. Tails Gets Trolled started in 2011 on the DeviantArt account of a user named Lazerbot. It’s also a legendarily “bad” piece of fanfiction, perhaps only less well-known than My Immortal, complete with what looks like a poorly disguised self-insert narrative from a dork fantasizing about getting back at his trolls, but it’s so much more than that. One could say that Tails Gets Trolled is a long-running webcomic series starring the cast of Sonic the Hedgehog and seemingly every animated pop-culture character to ever exist, but it’s so much more than that. Trying to describe Tails Gets Trolled in a short amount of space is nigh impossible. Considering the scope of things on the internet, this is no small feat. Here is genuinely nothing on the internet like Tails Gets Trolled.
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