The Furry Who Beat Everyone: The Story of SonicFox

[Music] sonic Fox means a lot of different things to a lot of different people they're the greatest Mortal Kombat player of all time they're a hero to an often maligned community guess I gotta at least say is that I'm gay black a very pretty much everything about public and hates and the best eSports player yes there are America's greatest hope in a genre dominated by the rest of the world they are an inspiration they're not what many people expect but they're everything an esports competitor should aspire to be we all have a top here and that's when dobkiss a win Sonic Fox's story starts out like so many esports stories that came before their brother Christian was a Tekken fan and Sonic Fox just three years old was mesmerized by it since then they've been obsessed with fighting games as far as you come a membered the very first game I ever saw second dream and I saw my brothers playing it I thought let us notice like with my earliest memories child but all happy to have been three when I first ever saw a game and like I can't literally can remember my life before that that's the very first memory very first early memories watching Tekken 3 be played and like just being astounded by it and then I tried and fell in love with it and then what'll come ception came out nice deception Deadly Alliance was out and I saw my brother playing that and after they fill up that wall accompied and ever since then I just knew that I loved fighting tournaments came a few years later though at 13 sonic was playing in tournaments up and down the East Coast traveling with her brother to play Mortal Kombat Soul Calibur and Dead or Alive among other games and even back then the Masters took notice and Kyani a French Soul Calibur Pro took a picture with Sonic Fox because she related to their story a young prodigy who may not have been taken seriously by their peers but was good enough to challenge the best as the years went on people learned what Kyani already knew sonic Vox was a name to be feared but he just wanted to that was a very good reaction by Sonic box jaw what that prediction it was that a dream I'm not sure if no it might have been a read cuz heats app is very fast so early yes my god yo stream Sonic she is not OD right now come on but long before song Fox knew they were a fighting game God they knew some other important things about themselves first they were a furry sonic Fox discovered their first Sona a blue Fox when they were around ten years old as the years went on they went more and more public with that part of their identity so I've always been at first I was longing simple number two because I grew up watching Happy Tree Friends and I always really really liked it I created my own character for the happy chief and so seeing and I was like I kind of want to see this character and a more anthos style than oh well I'm a fairy and that's all that happened but I just knew I have a bunch of friends and family inside of the community that were really important to me and I just I kept sticking with it as I was growing up and it just became much more and more powerful the furry community is often misunderstood while many see it as a purely sexual thing kind of kink for many furries it's more about a way of life a community they can belong to it's also a way to express yourself through your for sona an anthropomorphised animal that becomes an alternate identity a sort of avatar in the community people draw therefore sona's write stories about them and of course some are able to purchase elaborate custom fur suits letting them go to various conventions and meet up as their first sona and as sonic bugs grew more comfortable expressing that side of themself at tournaments it began to boost their own confidence at first it was like I thought it was cool second I eventually stopped caring oh there's nobody to stop me and then I said kept getting more and more involved for a community I just adding word costumes and stuff to that and exited getting paid all a bit more so I guess I doing a couple more cool stuff with it you know like I just kept progressing more and more into furry filth but there's another major facet to Sonic Fox's identity they're queer I wanna give a super shout out to all my LGBTQ plus friends that [Applause] Sonic's coming-out process has been pretty public after all they've lived most of their life in the public eye and definitely took me a while to come to terms with it it didn't have the fence that I had in high school I definitely wouldn't have figured it out ever but when I came to trim to that I was like I know it was like to have always hid that feeling that sucked so I don't want anybody ever to feel that way and I just want to be me all the time so I started being really really open with it after I got really comfortable with myself now look I want everybody else to be really comfortable with themselves as well Sonic initially came out as a gay man and then later identified themselves as a non-binary man as for why they do all this out in the open making sure everyone knows well it's about making it as accepted as possible letting everyone know they're welcome in the fgc how can I explain it it's like it makes it feel like I'm no different from anybody else in a community where it's kind of looked down upon to be that way you know so when I do things like that I don't know I feel good the thing is when one of the best fighting game players in the world is a queer black furry it's a lot easier for people to see themselves in the community Sonic Fox's presence and dominance tells people that there's a place for them no matter who they are and they too could be the best because very quickly Sonic Fox became the best Sonic's dominus began with injustice where they burst onto the North American scene with wins at final round 17 and CEO 2014 Oh again this could be in is that an input err our guest that's Daniel he's dead hop off switch in sonic Fox sonic classic one first major that girl has won her first big box he's definitely gonna go for super he wanted it right there 14 I told you ash up super to make him watch no unpause the game controller and sonic Fox is your CEO 2014 champion then came Evo the biggest fighting game tournaments in the world big one sec oh no she wanted that so bad though is one more mix up any block I push blocked and he gets the way and there's the DP this could be it bugs it's gonna take it 6-0 evolution 2014 champion those Grand Finals matches were many people's first look at Sonic Fox many saw them as a quiet young kid with an incredible understanding of the game as a younger player and I see this a lot in fighting games in general younger players who are very talented and very good they tend to take those risks a lot more often than you know seasoned players are even older players so to see him do well I think Batgirl is a perfect fit for him things like absolutely perfect fit for him but Sonic wasn't just good at injustice around the same time they played and excelled at dead or alive Mortal Kombat under night fix at the Rio and skullgirls that's it girl Seahawks Sonic Fox and another game is why catalog sonic was a fighting game prodigy they could pick up a game figure it out and dominate it in weeks the fgc has seen figures like this before for years justin wong would pop his head into a new game and win plenty of early tournaments but the difference between Justin and Sonic is that eventually Justin went back to his main games Sonic Fox went into a game conquered the competition and remained on top and a Sonic's trophy shelf grew it they became more and more confident with showing more sides of himself to the crowd Sonic quickly became known for their trademark hat and tail a sort of furry calling card people became so used to seeing Sonic in the Hat that it was a shock whenever they took it off nobody in the crowd saw this coming oh look at the glance from Tekken Master Wu inside [Laughter] I don't think we've ever seen that before we have he hikes we're seeing Pharaoh man bareheaded human sonic fly saw his brain would be exposed there but success breeds haters and sonic Fox had to brush off their fair share for years Sonic Fox was the unquestionable best player in the world when it came to Mortal Kombat and injustice but to certain members of the fgc at large that wasn't good enough the problem was you know there was always this reputation that the people who are good at m'kay weren't really actually good at fighting games they were just good and they were lucky that Street Fighter players didn't play because clearly they would lose and stuff like that to some Sonic's tournament record came with an asterisk sure they were the best Mortal Kombat player critics would say but the competition wasn't real Street Fighter Marvel vs. Capcom in the haters eyes those were the legit fighting games with deep pools of highly talented players and decade old legacies [Applause] meanwhile sonic Fox was playing smaller games newer games games that to some weren't as important I felt one crazy reddit thread I remember back in the day of someone saying like oh you know sonic Fox can't play Marvel because they need a block button which is just crazy because they were also playing you know they're playing like schoolgirls at the time and being incredible and under night and being incredible so just none of that made any sense but it was a way to you know kind of downplay sonic raucous achievements and keep pumping up the players that they liked and knew already it didn't hit them too hard but it didn't ship away at their legacy for people looking in from the outside it made sonic Fox look like a huge fish in a small pond so sonic Fox began to branch out but it wasn't because of the haters just upset a lot of people at high level that's like I don't even want to be the best I don't upset people I really love Taikan and my main characters back so we'll see how that goes but I'm putting in the no time award to show people that hey I got it but every game I set my mind to Sonic Fox finished top eight at the first-ever Street fortified premier tournament beating the eventual Capcom Cup champion knuckle do in the first major tournament of the year hit those oh my gosh he's slidin he's coming at him he's going for the lodge and he pops off he pops off sonic box they play Marvel vs. Capcom infinite the next year barely missing out on qualifying for the game's first and only World Finals one trap real reset all the while sonic was still the person to beat in NRS games the lowest they ever placed in a Mortal Kombat X tournament was fourth and they want twenty tournaments including of course two back to back and bow titles to win twice in two years it's not a feat that many fighting game players have accomplished you know some people have won evo twice over a course of several years in different games and certainly that is incredible I think as far as I know one of the only other players to have done it was Daigo when Street Fighter 4 came out in 2009 2010 and that is this achievement is you know in that way die go s right it is this show of dominance as if to say I am sonic box right saying I am the greatest player to play these games but the time injustice to world around Sonic was nearly unstoppable in the NRS scene 15 tournament wins in a year and a half and though they missed out on the Evo titles they still picked up both Pro Series finals titles earning the last official tournament victory of the game's life closing out its era as its true champion sonic Fox closes out at any second here and that could be a game not just not not just like but still in this is a very tense moment mechanical back what can it do well the overhead and I don't too but all the while there was one more game that Sonic was excelling at the game that would truly silence their haters [Music] [Applause] Dragonball Fighters release was exciting for fans who wanted their favorite characters in the game but hyper and its release really focused on which legendary fighting game players would pick it up it brought together people from you know guilty gear and Street Fighter and Marvel and even Smash Bros and of course the NRS community any kind of fighting game people came in to Dragon Ball and so you had people really paying attention to you know from smash guys like lessons from Marvel's Capcom guys like Chris G and you know from the NRS community sonic box sonic tooks DB FZ almost instantly and made sure that they were given the respect they deserve in the game that brought together the FG c 3o 3o sexist showdown the North American community rallied around Sonic box but across the Pacific go Ichi another fighting game legend was being hailed as the best in the world and the pair loved to play into their international rivalry so yah sony cooks oh one thing up go Ichi oh my G daddy pair of ivory from that point on became like the best rivalry I think takes us in a fighting game because it's like we just want to push each other to her absolutely yes like oh they could ever ask for somebody in any fighting game to do for me go Ichi and sonic Fox didn't have too much in common but there was one thing that tied them together go Ichi was known in Japan as the king of poverty games a classification given to games that tend to have anime aesthetics extremely complicated mechanics and of course low to non-existent price pools he's played like ever every poverty anime game that you and I I've never heard of he's like multi-time champion and he's actually I heard that he was like a rhythm game champion in Japan there's like some rhythm game in Japan that he's like the best that to you but there was like one year where anime Evo held like a bunch of side tournament and go Ichi I think won like five titles that Evo or something go hu was a solid Street Fighter 5 player but he was the god of games that rarely got their time in the limelight Dragonball Fighters represented a chance for both players to dominate in a game that everyone was paying attention to a game where no one could say they were just beating players who weren't good enough to cut it in the big leagues and very quickly Sonic Fox and gooey cheese rivalry became Dragonball Fighters main event you know what great job from go Ichi he called them out and he finished the job Ted for for the obvious and there it is that may be curtains and all she wrote and go week she goes into the loops final flash and coming after this energy field and this is gonna be enough to through the top don't eat see is your final ground champion what a tremendous grand finals the guaranteed it's settled now don't we see is without question the best in the world look inside a box on the down all the Rockets abandoned okay it's time to get up good luck oh but he's gonna DP in the bed yes he does and go each sheet snakes it I'm pretty sure sad if I thought that was gonna be safe look at that Ichi your Victor yes he is go Ichi won their first few sets but sonic [ __ ] caught up fast winning the next three protectively want mix up away ladies and gentlemen from taking this away sonic your combo breaker 2018 Dragonball Fighters champion air-to-air you got under owning box gonna take it away from you fourth place for going she in the summit of power you know what safe to say I think at this point that is gooey cheese demon oh my god this type of coochie but that's gonna be it tired Pollock fault once again defeats coach in tournaments the table has turned between these two and he qualifies into grand finals winner sighs heading into Evo they were all tied up it's up for grabs well we got it here winners finals of evolution lots go eat you one more time now sonic boss tag buttons he's too good in the Scramble the god king of all scrambled no this is looking absolutely free right now the sonic buck snap yes get him outta give me the blue I want to see you so Pat it really base marking or does he think to take the other character bring the character back okay we take that we take that he gets the whole thing yes he is healthy make some hero the extra hell he's summoned Center on and everything javelin come on is that actually nothing yes it is sonic boxing grand finals winners side older men is excited sonic fox13 oh but with the Swift win over his teammate Fenric gucci clawed his way back to grand finals for a second showdown with his rival javelin bang energy field okay one on the board we'll go eat see looking way better than he did in the winners finals I will say that oh god I'm clean air task 4 thoughts on cars running up they say I'm plenty of are ya even be made to vanish with two weights knocked him down and that might be enough final flash sonic hogs knowledge no pixel pixel pixel pixel pixel God Oh ran all the way up and it's gonna be a reset so go Ichi climbs his way back into Grand Finals from the losers bracket goes as a Grand Finals and annihilate sonic Fox in the first set right he resets the bracket three oh it is insane and everyone thinking holy craps going she's got this and then sonic boss requests the other side of the south yeah the questions on it boss apparently asked me if there can be a side switch in between the sets he wants Flair one knows some people thought that Sonic box was like maliciously trying to get the upper hand I don't think that was the case I think you know it was language barriers and harmonic box feels more comfortable on that side but at the end of the day it ended up completely whole thing go eat cheese momentum I don't know it might be a stretch but sign of us maybe did that just to cool the man off and you think Oh each eagerly salad bars like your bro are you serious like what let's get this going and in Dragon Balls final match of the night it was Sonic Fox who personifies it's done it bucks Oh we'll finish no and do not tell me we're going to summit are we gonna summon 2018 he's dead he's done it yes it like I said it felt great it's not only that I win in a non NRS Title I beat the best player in Japan to do it so that's the very first time I was in Grand Finals with players from Japan ever and the fighting game and Evo and I defeated him too because something of the hard work that he put him into hard work I played but very happy to say at that moment that I was the best Dragon Balls played Sonic Fox put themselves at the top of a game played by everyone where the competition was fierce and no one could dispute their success that night they were the best fighting game player in the world in a world where the top players tend to be reserved hyper serious and traditional sonic bugs bucks the trend by standing apart they stand as an example that anyone can be a star anyone can be the best so to have Sonic Fox who's a gay furry you know very young and and also african-american or black I should say who's also black you know represent the fighting game community I am a hundred percent for at CEO 2018 Sonic folks gave their fifth place Dragon bullfighters medal to a kid watching them in the crowd and promised him a first-place medal the next year at CEO 2019 they made good on that promise combat neck view with a first-place metal that singular moment on its own stands as an example of what sonic fox means to the fgc they're an inspiration for future generation a generation that can play whatever they want be whoever they want and still be the best I mean it's only a good thing right to have someone like that be our ambassador who's lifting the trophies and taking the awards and talking up fighting games it tells people who might not be part of those stereotypes who might not associate with those stereotypes that they're also welcome they can be whoever they want to be and love fighting games and play fighting games and maybe even be the best fighting game player in the world well the next year of Dragon Ball fighters was a little less kind to our hero they still put up a second-place finish at Evo after a tense run back against go eg closets took both sides I'm blocking both sides now H mystic ball this is huge sonic box normal reset the challenge go Ichi was ready for it he brings them up this is it drop up keep it simple there it is go Ichi your Dragon Ball Fighters 2019 Evo champion but instead of being salty they stood next to their rival and raised up his hand I want them to get stronger and I want myself to get strong because if they don't get stronger how can I get stronger right like I want people to push me to my limit I want people to kill me for silly mistakes and I want my first I want me to kill them for their silly mistakes because we will become better fighting game players if it could really pushes us also limit that's another one of the many things that stand out about Sonic Fox when they lose they're never off sulking they're laughing and smiling they're just happy to be doing what they love playing fighting games and putting on a show right after that finals against go ichi sonic fox walked right over to the mortal kombat setups and got to work they were easily the best mortal kombat player in the world at that point but that didn't mean victory would be free Sonic Fox plowed through their bracket and after a close match with dragon in the winners finals proceeded to demolish him 300 in grants to the flaws blocks down the race to punch one angel but no other back things up ocean 2019 champion they proved once again that they were the best mortal combat player in the world once again no one could touch their legs they played two championship caliber top eight back-to-back second place and one person the other I can think of very few other players who can match that Sonic boxes professional career is only about five years long but it's easier to forget that given just how much they've achieved in that time in just five years they've assembled a trophy cabinet that rivals some of fighting games greatest talents they've become an example of everything great about the fgc they've become an ambassador for eSports I think Sonic Fox is one of the best ambassadors we could possibly have for the FTC I love it right because one of the things that I want the FCC to be known for to pride myself on the FTC is the diversity that we have here they've won over 60 first-place trophies including five evil world titles they're one of the greatest fighting game players of all time but perhaps more importantly they're an inspiration and that will be their legacy no matter who I am no matter where I am no matter what I'm doing with it's gaming or in the work field I'm going to be me that's the only thing I could have asked for to be fine [Music] thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite-sized videos you will find anywhere else hit up our Instagram Twitter and Facebook pages

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Id: R77ZNA5n-Ok

Length: 27min 17sec (1637 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 26 2019