Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-679780-20140930230517/@comment-679780-20141001223840

Time Biter wrote: It's about as much blood as a scraped knee. Yes he's bleeding from the eyes but I decided to be dignifying about both the meme and the children and remained honest on Sonic.exe apperance. If anything I made him appear less bloody than usual fan art made him. But it's blood coming ''out of a children's character's eyes. ''There's a difference between blood and blood coming from a recognized character. Also, in the event that kids come here, consider that they may know nothing about Sonic.exe. You may see Sonic.exe, but the people who haven't will see Sonic bleeding out of his eyes. I drew Sonic.exe as he is because I really doubt children would find it all that bad. I chose not to censor him or make it sweet because thats how he is. I done it this way because it is the audience, especially the young ones in mind I've been treating with honesty and dignity than just treating them like widdle-kiddy children.
 * Since SNN is viewed by various age groups, having blood is inappropriate.

In yet it is the older members here that have the most gripe about it. It is the older members who find offense in it.

Time Biter wrote: It is Halloween. That is entirely the point on why I had him on background. I'm not going to hold your hand for you. We're not asking for you to hold our hand, we're asking you to consider that there may be more sheepish people who come here. Haloween is may be "scary" but there is a difference between scary and potentially scarring. Heck, you can make the argument that, at least for a family friendly place, Haloween should be a little "spooky" at best. And let's be honest here, when we think of Haloween, we think of pumpkins and scarecrows, not people bleeding out of their eyes. So far, all I've been getting is general complaints regardless if they're trying to protect another group or not, so fear one way or another. Meanwhile there are those who know it's all light-heartedness and that there really is nothing to fear behind it.
 * Sonic.exe is scary.

Still, I don't want to bother with this anymore since I took the background down. If you want to do something about it by all means. I had nice plans for October but if no one likes my commitment to SNN I can promise I will leave October alone.