It's still cool and adorable how SEGA and Sonic Team decided to roll with the "Creepy Doll" idea for Tails Doll. Archie, IDW, social media. It's neat to see how everything started as a joke in a forum.
If this video was around back in 2010 it would've saved me a lot of sleeples nights. Thank you for all the research you've done, I trully appreciate it. I'm not used to typing without an autocorrect, but unlike my phone and PC my tablet doesn't have it, so please excuse any gramatical errors.
Never knew it went this deep. I was first exposed to Tails Doll from an old GamerFromMars video way back in the day when he covered creepypastas and Pokémon theories. Excellent work!
Nobody gives Crystal Gonzalez enough credit for her version of Tails Doll, that being the version from Sonic Shorts Vol. 2. People just steal her art for their shitty .exe games and such, and it is a real shame.
thank you so much for your research, was a huge reader of the OG "Tails from the Crypt..." site (2009-2012). looking back now it's really quite a bizarre and obscure internet urban legend, much of it is lost to time. i used to fully believe in lots of the stuff posted there. would tell my cousins and friends about it, made for quite a thrilling experience, haha.
and my heart wouldn't be skipping a beat, I would have not been enraged over the fanbase, I would feel less empty inside, people would take the curse as a joke more, people wouldn't compare my boy to that piece of rubbish, and so on.
Its just an old meme from 2005, he was my childhood but sadly in 2012 people made a creepypasta version about the curse and took it seriously with people going too far with it, I am a Tails Doll expert and Tails Doll was compared to Weegee who was a 2007 meme. Tails Doll in canon is just a racer and deserves more respect, most info about him is unknown and he is the vaguest sonic character.
I didn't even know a creepypasta version caused it to resurface until a few months back. When doing this video, I found it odd that most wiki posts about Tails Doll don't acknowledge the old meme and how rampant it was in the early 2000s
@@TheMentok I hate those who say Tails Doll originated from a creepypasta, its so disrespectful towards both the actual Tails Doll and the meme, and as a Tails Doll fan, I hate the creepypasta, Both Sonic R and the meme were part of my childhood but when the creepypasta version came out I start to get pissed and they did my boy dirty. The curse was made for meme horror but people took it seriously and suck the fun and humor out of it.
@@goosethehonker340 It's not that serious unless you're really young and gullible I doubted most people actually think it's real. It's nothing but a harmless internet story.
@@PeterGriffin11 Yeah its just a internet meme that scares people for fun, just like with Weegee where your not really going to turn into a Weegee clone. I could make my own meme horror story and yet it would just be for fun and anyone sane won't believe its serious
Really glad I was recommended this. I was watching mid way through and I was wondering if you would of found the pasta archives. I was terrified of the idea of tails dall as a child. But I will say, I remember comments about the Tails doll from 2003. I was in grade 3 at that time and remembering being in a paranoid state to the point it became an issue at school and at home. But maybe it was closer to 2004 or early 2004 and im mixing them up. Great video. Braught me back lol
@@krocolate1300 I forgot about the whole Miyamoto seal thing and laughed when I came across that part of the story. Those forum posts were a blast to read. Thanks for watching!
I unironically worshipped the Tails Doll in high school. I also bashed all Sonic games from Adventure on for making Amy instead of Sally Sonic's love interest. Knowing that the Tails Doll owes its existence to Adventure would have blown my teenage self's mind.
Haven't watched the video, but I remember it was someone on the gamefaqs sonic adventure 2 board. That's the first time I remember hearing about it anyway. This was back in maybe 2003.
Tails Doll needs to be more playable in other Sonic games, all we seen him do is fly and float on water and that's it, he should start off as a villain and work up into being an anti hero, maybe he should be the Sonic version of Kenshiro, Metal Gear Raiden and Giorno Giovanna. Maybe his story should be a side story like Golden Wind where its like a combination of Fist of the north star and JoJo Part 5 Golden Wind #TailsDollNeedsMoreLove
Just wanted to say I came across your videos recently and I've been watching a lot of em. You make some pretty quality content. It's interesting learning all this stuff about these characters. I was so afraid of the Tails Doll when I was younger, lol. I wouldn't have guessed that it started off as a joke in the early 2000s.
I loved this video, the truth is that I investigated the history of creepypasta as much as I could and came to a call you're the man dog where I found things from approximately 2005, from there I knew that the origin of tails doll was much further back. the only thing I found sadly were some old discussions about it and that everyone concluded that "Rebekkah G. A" was the creator of the story, but I knew there was more to it. Here in Latin America TD is still a famous creepypasta, but it has a different version created by a user supposedly called iron7humb, of which there is no record. I am very happy with this video last night to see more background of this character, the whole history of Tails and his legacy on the internet is interesting, the truth is, as a curious fact there is a book based on creepypasta called "the tails doll strikes", for If you want to see all this in more depth, I can't get it but I would like to have another vision of the story.
7:24 he is my fav character so im already doing that also I own a copy of shadow the hedgehog in my bedroom so im good with that too. should i try this out?!?!?!?!?!?! at 3AM DRINKING THE SUS POTION!?!?!?!?! maybeee
When I first saw Tails Doll, i thought the nose was its mouth. I feel like i just figured out it wasn't while watching this video. Although I don't remember how i was introduced to this character exactly, it was definitely around the release of Sonic Gems Collection.
Idk if Mentok's gonna reply to this but, I detect Higurashi right in your Google searches (at 5:09 specifically), could you be a fan of it, or are you just getting into it? Or did it just randomly pop up in your searches? Either way, if that's the case with the first two guesses, then I'm genuinely glad to see someone else who knows about it or at least enjoys it. 👁👁
Always been interested but never got into it. Higurashi and The House in Fata Morgana have been on my list for a while. Should I make the leap? I have less time for visual novels these days but I used to be a HUGE fan of 999, Ever 17, Danganronpa, all Gyakuten Saiban games etc. I know the writer is working on the new Silent Hill coming out so that's exciting.
@@TheMentok I'd say it's worth it. I haven't played the VNs myself yet if I had to be really honest here. But I heard the VNs are really great and worth the read, I'd say they touch on more things than the anime did. It even goes into FAR more detail in one of my favorite arcs (which is Meakashi-hen) and the character that's the main focus of said arc. If ur wanting to make the leap eventually and check it out, anime or VN, I'd say it's worth a shot regardless. I hope u have fun though no matter what if you do get into Higurashi through any means whether that's the anime, manga, or VN. It's a nice horror series. It does have some of it's weird moments in some places, but asides from that, it can be enjoyed! Sorry if the comment above was really random for a video relating to the Tails Doll. I just get rlly excited when I see the series mentioned anywhere. And yes, Ryukishi definitely IS working on the new Silent Hill which I'm genuinely a little excited and curious to see how that will go, or if he'll take some inspiration from some of his own works and implement it. The new Silent Hill F teaser, at least the setting it takes place in almost gives me the rural village vibes Higurashi already has.
Somewhat related: How has SEGA not seen the money making opportunity in selling the Tails Doll as a physical plush toy, day one the shelves would be empty. DAY ONE.
Maybe a cool rewrite for the myth could be to tye it in with the Needlemouse rewrite and make it so that the Tails Doll is basically a Bloody Mary type of character who hates everything to do with the other robotic characters that Eggman created as it's a vain demonic creature. It's also basically incredibly childish, so it doesn't like adult stuff, especially Shadow the Hedgehog. So, you could play a game like Devil May Cry or any Persona game and the effect would still stand, just not nearly as effective as Shadow. Play a bad game, like any of Konami's pachinko machines or EA games or anything else like this and the Tails Doll would mock you as it comes closer and closer. So basically, it's an incredibly vain and childish demonic doll that is basically a third party to the rest of Needlemouse's story, a "mercenary/unbeatable monster" type of character.
my theory is that the ruby that made Tails Doll move might have contained an evil spirit the could be as powerful as Dark Gaia and as brutal as Solaris but possibly something older than the former. either a demon or a being similar to Solaris that was sealed in that ruby by who knows what or who as a attempt to seal the creature. which would have worked, until Eggman found it and used it to make the Tails Doll and in a Annebelle fashion, the being possess the Tails Doll. as for the curse, it might be due to the being's ability to travel through reality into our world to kill whoever activated the curse and use their soul to advanced the being's own power.
Hey bro unrelated to the video but I’ve been listening to your content as I push through my final semester of senior year and it helps me to get through it when times are tough! Love what you’re doing and hope ya keep up the good work :)
I needed this. Glad my content is helping you through the semester! Hoping to keep it flowing this year and best of luck on your last semester. The relief you'll feel in the end will be worth it
Been binging your channel for a few days now, just wanted to say thanks for all the interesting and really well researched videos. I know 5 bucks ain't a lot, but it's what I can do to show my appreciation a bit better than just hitting like. Keep it up Mentok, you keep making em and I'll keep watching em!
Getting to this a bit late but thank you so much! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying the content and I’m hoping to continue delivering 🙏🏽 $5 is more than enough
My older cousin was online during her sonic fan years so she would read lies or misinformation and tell them to me thinking they where real. She read me the tails doll story and I thought it was real so I was terrified of the song can you feel the sunshine. Whenever it would show up in games I would run away or close my eyes and ear but then one day it came on suddenly but couldn’t be bothered to move. I thought I may died but at least the song is fire.
This is such a blast from the past. I remember frequenting the Shadow Shrine all the time as a kid, at the time Shadow the Hedgehog hadn't been released and there was a LOT of hype around it. Browsing around forums and other sites eventually led me there, and I quickly became obsessed with all the Tails Doll stories that popped up. Being around 12 at the time, I ate up all of the stories and remember asking for Sonic Gems when it released constantly, just so I could finally play the game that had inspired all those stories. Insane how it kind of helped pioneer creepypastas as a thing.
That tracks. I graduated HS April 2005 and was aware of the Tails Doll curse by the time I purchased Sonic Gems that year. Was a commonly known urban myth on the forums for Advance Wars Network, which is defunct now. I wonder how much of internet history is lost to deleted forums and mIRC and AIM.
Going into Tails Doll lore I always wondered what became of quacker and bowen, I loved that webcomic, plus Marks other stuff like the tongue in cheek Shadow the hedgehog church and geek eats youtube channel where great. But like a decade ago he just vanished with no traces off the web and I hope he's alright and thriving at least.
Dude, this is important work. As internet myth becomes internet legend we forget that kids just coming into these things have no more information than we do. Thank you for documenting this
I found out about the tails doll from some old pixel Sonic animation on UA-cam. They’ll talked in robo voices. No idea what it was called. Also found out about Dead Space from the same series.
I remember that website!!! It had a lot of funny rip offs of horror movie plots, as well as some fun fan created stories. I used to browse that a lot when i was like 13
Tails Doll was the reason why I didn’t listen to Can You Feel The Sunshine for most of my life. Which sucks cause I was missing out on a really good song 😭
quacker and bowen is what i remember being the origin/earliest tails doll curse website i looked at back when i was obsessed and drawing this thing a lot. i recognised that url and black webpage. i think that forum is definitely the origin of this fandom meme.
when i was a little kid in like 2009/2010 i remember i found a story lost in the old links that creeped me out at the time. It said that a Sega worker never had time to play with his son because he was working hard on the next game that was called Sonic R, and his son was pretty sad about it. So he gave him a tails doll, so he could play with it. However, his son started getting bullied at school because he would always be with the doll everywhere he went. One day, some kids hit him and started mocking him, hurting and bullying, etc. Suddenly, some lighting came out of the doll and the kids dropped dead. The son then went far away from there, since there were no witnesses. The kid went back home, the dad was working there, recording things about Sonic R on a CD. The game was already finished and he had to deliver it to Sega . The kid entered the room and stood there. His father told him to seat down while he was making the last recordings. He finished the CD, and as he was holding it, he took a look at his son. His eyes were empty-like, soulless. Then he looked at the doll and noticed something that he didn't notice it was there: a ruby gem glowing red connected above the doll's head. He then started panicking, tried to grab the doll from the kid, but he wouldn not let him go. Then the ruby started glowing too bright, and some lightning started coming out of the doll at his direction. As a last instance, the dad held the cd in front of him, what made the lighting revert back to the doll and his son. Then some strong scarlet flash came, and the dad was blinded for some time. Everything stopped then, and as the dust had settled, he looked at his son. He was laid at the floor, lifeless, and the doll was gone. He cried a lot, got desperate. After some time, he put the CD to run, and as he was looking at the unlockable characters, there it was: Tails Doll himself. The dad then coded a seal that would never let the doll get out of the CD, as he put the impossibility of Tails Doll managing to get Super Sonic at the tag game. But the doll wouldn't let that stop him. That's where the curse came from. A bit goofy, i know, but that was terrifying when i was a kid, and the night i read it i couldn't sleep lol. I was about 8 years old
I'm watching this at 2am. 💀 The Tails Doll was the first creepypasta I ever came across, when I used to regular the Sonic GameFAQ boards in 2005 when I was like 12 and I used to have that pic of Tails Doll as my desktop wallpaper 😹👀 also i used to browse that Quackers site, they used to update a section with fan submitted Stories
Don't try activating this curse at home. Happy Halloween!
Check out the origins of the scary Sonic genre ► ua-cam.com/video/OSu2focrf8g/v-deo.html
My cousin that’s 18 or 19 is doing it
idk why
The idea that you can keep yourself safe from Tails Doll by frequently playing Shadow The Hedgehog for the Playstation 2 is comedy tbh
That part was so cringe reading how many years later 🤣 I miss the old internet
When you play Shadow the hedgehog in 4k you will feel badass😎😎
Can't blame me the game is so damn edgy broo
At this point just let the doll take me
so if you play it on gamecube or xbox it doesn't work?
It's still cool and adorable how SEGA and Sonic Team decided to roll with the "Creepy Doll" idea for Tails Doll.
Archie, IDW, social media. It's neat to see how everything started as a joke in a forum.
If this video was around back in 2010 it would've saved me a lot of sleeples nights. Thank you for all the research you've done, I trully appreciate it.
I'm not used to typing without an autocorrect, but unlike my phone and PC my tablet doesn't have it, so please excuse any gramatical errors.
“If I met Yuji Naka Id ask him to get me a sonic doll, he’s a nice guy” aged worse than milk
Wait. Living in the City Backwards
I thought it was Can you feel the sunshine
I am so proud to say I was a regular member at Sonic HQ during this time and can confirm this is true. I have nothing but my memory though!
good video man!!!
I tried the tails doll once.
Didn't expect a goofy lil' creepypasta to have such a huge rabbithole. Nice video esaay
tabls doll relal!!!!!
Nah bro, I’m the real one.
Tails del real
Never knew it went this deep. I was first exposed to Tails Doll from an old GamerFromMars video way back in the day when he covered creepypastas and Pokémon theories. Excellent work!
Nobody gives Crystal Gonzalez enough credit for her version of Tails Doll, that being the version from Sonic Shorts Vol. 2. People just steal her art for their shitty .exe games and such, and it is a real shame.
Yeah
Early exe games were notorious for stealing stuff
Wait,Comickpro is a woman?
@@Cr102y Yes, she is
@@SmokeTheHorsehog Man,that’s news to me hahaha. But yeah,her Tails Doll is easily the most iconic version of the character,she deserves more credit.
thank you so much for your research, was a huge reader of the OG "Tails from the Crypt..." site (2009-2012). looking back now it's really quite a bizarre and obscure internet urban legend, much of it is lost to time. i used to fully believe in lots of the stuff posted there. would tell my cousins and friends about it, made for quite a thrilling experience, haha.
Bruh who tf associates tails doll with _Living in the City_
It's always been
_C a n Y o u F e e l t h e S u n s h i n e_
Usually backwards
I feel if people didn’t make tails doll a creepy pasta he would be a loved character that eggman made like gamma
and my heart wouldn't be skipping a beat, I would have not been enraged over the fanbase, I would feel less empty inside, people would take the curse as a joke more, people wouldn't compare my boy to that piece of rubbish, and so on.
I'll just build a Metal Sonic and have it beat up Tails doll.
Won't even hurt me, it would just be Raiden punching Senator Armstrong all over again
The Curse is dumb and stupid and a mockery towards me.
Everyone look! It's the actual TAILS DOLL :D
I always thought you would hate the Tails Doll Curse
A piece of my childhood has been given a conclusion. Amazing work.
Its just an old meme from 2005, he was my childhood but sadly in 2012 people made a creepypasta version about the curse and took it seriously with people going too far with it, I am a Tails Doll expert and Tails Doll was compared to Weegee who was a 2007 meme.
Tails Doll in canon is just a racer and deserves more respect, most info about him is unknown and he is the vaguest sonic character.
I didn't even know a creepypasta version caused it to resurface until a few months back. When doing this video, I found it odd that most wiki posts about Tails Doll don't acknowledge the old meme and how rampant it was in the early 2000s
@@TheMentok I hate those who say Tails Doll originated from a creepypasta, its so disrespectful towards both the actual Tails Doll and the meme, and as a Tails Doll fan, I hate the creepypasta, Both Sonic R and the meme were part of my childhood but when the creepypasta version came out I start to get pissed and they did my boy dirty. The curse was made for meme horror but people took it seriously and suck the fun and humor out of it.
@@goosethehonker340 It's not that serious unless you're really young and gullible I doubted most people actually think it's real. It's nothing but a harmless internet story.
@@PeterGriffin11 Yeah its just a internet meme that scares people for fun, just like with Weegee where your not really going to turn into a Weegee clone. I could make my own meme horror story and yet it would just be for fun and anyone sane won't believe its serious
All I want is to get back to into the racing scene like fr
Thank you for teaching me something. I've loved Sonic R for years, but I did not actually know that it had a plot behind it!
Yeah, same, honestly thought it was a racer with no plot at all.
Really glad I was recommended this. I was watching mid way through and I was wondering if you would of found the pasta archives. I was terrified of the idea of tails dall as a child.
But I will say, I remember comments about the Tails doll from 2003. I was in grade 3 at that time and remembering being in a paranoid state to the point it became an issue at school and at home. But maybe it was closer to 2004 or early 2004 and im mixing them up.
Great video. Braught me back lol
Also the GC had a seal with chicken blood doused inside lol
@@krocolate1300 I forgot about the whole Miyamoto seal thing and laughed when I came across that part of the story. Those forum posts were a blast to read. Thanks for watching!
@@TheMentok that part has me dying. You're welcome. Thanks for the great work you put out
I unironically worshipped the Tails Doll in high school. I also bashed all Sonic games from Adventure on for making Amy instead of Sally Sonic's love interest. Knowing that the Tails Doll owes its existence to Adventure would have blown my teenage self's mind.
Haven't watched the video, but I remember it was someone on the gamefaqs sonic adventure 2 board. That's the first time I remember hearing about it anyway. This was back in maybe 2003.
Hmmm…if true that predates the earliest forum posts I found around 2004-2005. Though if it’s gamefaqs I think those threads would still be around
Great research and deep dive man! It's so strange that they decided to design it to look like a creepy plushie instead of a intimidating mech lol
Tails Doll needs to be more playable in other Sonic games, all we seen him do is fly and float on water and that's it, he should start off as a villain and work up into being an anti hero, maybe he should be the Sonic version of Kenshiro, Metal Gear Raiden and Giorno Giovanna. Maybe his story should be a side story like Golden Wind where its like a combination of Fist of the north star and JoJo Part 5 Golden Wind
#TailsDollNeedsMoreLove
Just wanted to say I came across your videos recently and I've been watching a lot of em. You make some pretty quality content. It's interesting learning all this stuff about these characters. I was so afraid of the Tails Doll when I was younger, lol. I wouldn't have guessed that it started off as a joke in the early 2000s.
I loved this video, the truth is that I investigated the history of creepypasta as much as I could and came to a call you're the man dog where I found things from approximately 2005, from there I knew that the origin of tails doll was much further back.
the only thing I found sadly were some old discussions about it and that everyone concluded that "Rebekkah G. A" was the creator of the story, but I knew there was more to it.
Here in Latin America TD is still a famous creepypasta, but it has a different version created by a user supposedly called iron7humb, of which there is no record.
I am very happy with this video last night to see more background of this character, the whole history of Tails and his legacy on the internet is interesting, the truth is, as a curious fact there is a book based on creepypasta called "the tails doll strikes", for If you want to see all this in more depth, I can't get it but I would like to have another vision of the story.
7:24 he is my fav character so im already doing that also I own a copy of shadow the hedgehog in my bedroom so im good with that too. should i try this out?!?!?!?!?!?! at 3AM DRINKING THE SUS POTION!?!?!?!?! maybeee
When I first saw Tails Doll, i thought the nose was its mouth. I feel like i just figured out it wasn't while watching this video. Although I don't remember how i was introduced to this character exactly, it was definitely around the release of Sonic Gems Collection.
Idk if Mentok's gonna reply to this but, I detect Higurashi right in your Google searches (at 5:09 specifically), could you be a fan of it, or are you just getting into it? Or did it just randomly pop up in your searches? Either way, if that's the case with the first two guesses, then I'm genuinely glad to see someone else who knows about it or at least enjoys it. 👁👁
Always been interested but never got into it. Higurashi and The House in Fata Morgana have been on my list for a while. Should I make the leap? I have less time for visual novels these days but I used to be a HUGE fan of 999, Ever 17, Danganronpa, all Gyakuten Saiban games etc. I know the writer is working on the new Silent Hill coming out so that's exciting.
@@TheMentok I'd say it's worth it. I haven't played the VNs myself yet if I had to be really honest here. But I heard the VNs are really great and worth the read, I'd say they touch on more things than the anime did. It even goes into FAR more detail in one of my favorite arcs (which is Meakashi-hen) and the character that's the main focus of said arc.
If ur wanting to make the leap eventually and check it out, anime or VN, I'd say it's worth a shot regardless. I hope u have fun though no matter what if you do get into Higurashi through any means whether that's the anime, manga, or VN. It's a nice horror series. It does have some of it's weird moments in some places, but asides from that, it can be enjoyed!
Sorry if the comment above was really random for a video relating to the Tails Doll. I just get rlly excited when I see the series mentioned anywhere.
And yes, Ryukishi definitely IS working on the new Silent Hill which I'm genuinely a little excited and curious to see how that will go, or if he'll take some inspiration from some of his own works and implement it. The new Silent Hill F teaser, at least the setting it takes place in almost gives me the rural village vibes Higurashi already has.
new tails doll video in my recomended?
The algorithm is working
I tried it it didnt work
Fun fact: if Sonic Adventure didn't had Sonic/Tails/Knux dolls in first Gamma stage, Sonic R Tails Doll would probably never existed.
I always thought that the red thing on the doll's head was a poorly inflated balloon.
Somewhat related: How has SEGA not seen the money making opportunity in selling the Tails Doll as a physical plush toy, day one the shelves would be empty. DAY ONE.
Maybe a cool rewrite for the myth could be to tye it in with the Needlemouse rewrite and make it so that the Tails Doll is basically a Bloody Mary type of character who hates everything to do with the other robotic characters that Eggman created as it's a vain demonic creature. It's also basically incredibly childish, so it doesn't like adult stuff, especially Shadow the Hedgehog. So, you could play a game like Devil May Cry or any Persona game and the effect would still stand, just not nearly as effective as Shadow. Play a bad game, like any of Konami's pachinko machines or EA games or anything else like this and the Tails Doll would mock you as it comes closer and closer. So basically, it's an incredibly vain and childish demonic doll that is basically a third party to the rest of Needlemouse's story, a "mercenary/unbeatable monster" type of character.
my theory is that the ruby that made Tails Doll move might have contained an evil spirit the could be as powerful as Dark Gaia and as brutal as Solaris but possibly something older than the former. either a demon or a being similar to Solaris that was sealed in that ruby by who knows what or who as a attempt to seal the creature. which would have worked, until Eggman found it and used it to make the Tails Doll and in a Annebelle fashion, the being possess the Tails Doll. as for the curse, it might be due to the being's ability to travel through reality into our world to kill whoever activated the curse and use their soul to advanced the being's own power.
Hey bro unrelated to the video but I’ve been listening to your content as I push through my final semester of senior year and it helps me to get through it when times are tough! Love what you’re doing and hope ya keep up the good work :)
I needed this. Glad my content is helping you through the semester! Hoping to keep it flowing this year and best of luck on your last semester. The relief you'll feel in the end will be worth it
Been binging your channel for a few days now, just wanted to say thanks for all the interesting and really well researched videos. I know 5 bucks ain't a lot, but it's what I can do to show my appreciation a bit better than just hitting like. Keep it up Mentok, you keep making em and I'll keep watching em!
Getting to this a bit late but thank you so much! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying the content and I’m hoping to continue delivering 🙏🏽 $5 is more than enough
Fans turned this little boi into a creeptpasta :(
My older cousin was online during her sonic fan years so she would read lies or misinformation and tell them to me thinking they where real. She read me the tails doll story and I thought it was real so I was terrified of the song can you feel the sunshine. Whenever it would show up in games I would run away or close my eyes and ear but then one day it came on suddenly but couldn’t be bothered to move. I thought I may died but at least the song is fire.
This is such a blast from the past. I remember frequenting the Shadow Shrine all the time as a kid, at the time Shadow the Hedgehog hadn't been released and there was a LOT of hype around it. Browsing around forums and other sites eventually led me there, and I quickly became obsessed with all the Tails Doll stories that popped up. Being around 12 at the time, I ate up all of the stories and remember asking for Sonic Gems when it released constantly, just so I could finally play the game that had inspired all those stories. Insane how it kind of helped pioneer creepypastas as a thing.
so the tails doll gives you two choices:
eternal servant
eternal damnation
Moral of the story: Mods are the fun police
😂Trust me, I was upset knowing some power hungry dude from the early 00s potentially destroyed history
So no one is gonna talk about how he is watching some sus stuff?
I'm 25. I was terrified of it and believed it when I was like 10
Sonic superstars : NUH uh 3:57
9:32 anyone knows the name of the video on the left?
That tracks. I graduated HS April 2005 and was aware of the Tails Doll curse by the time I purchased Sonic Gems that year.
Was a commonly known urban myth on the forums for Advance Wars Network, which is defunct now. I wonder how much of internet history is lost to deleted forums and mIRC and AIM.
Going into Tails Doll lore I always wondered what became of quacker and bowen, I loved that webcomic, plus Marks other stuff like the tongue in cheek Shadow the hedgehog church and geek eats youtube channel where great.
But like a decade ago he just vanished with no traces off the web and I hope he's alright and thriving at least.
Dont even get me started. That thing gave me nightmares for 3 years when I was 12
The curse is 0% real
Dude, this is important work. As internet myth becomes internet legend we forget that kids just coming into these things have no more information than we do. Thank you for documenting this
Will possibly start knocking at your bedroom door at 2AM if you’re not careful.
Me: At 1:51AM 😳😳😳
It’s not even scary
Finally I have respect for you
I found out about the tails doll from some old pixel Sonic animation on UA-cam. They’ll talked in robo voices. No idea what it was called. Also found out about Dead Space from the same series.
It's almost like the Tails Doll itself wants people to forget. So it can have more victims 😂
I remember that website!!! It had a lot of funny rip offs of horror movie plots, as well as some fun fan created stories. I used to browse that a lot when i was like 13
The only reason I look at this video because I was playing Roblox and this was a Morph
In a Roblox game
Tails Doll was the reason why I didn’t listen to Can You Feel The Sunshine for most of my life. Which sucks cause I was missing out on a really good song 😭
Says he does research.
Has videos on anime girls dancing saying it’s research of tails doll.
fr tails doll was kinda just weird and not creepy
Can you feel the sunshine?
Dose it brighten up your day?
0:28 okay i already feared this demon before but good god that is creepy as hell
Tails Doll isn't scary
The only scary thing about Tails Doll is the dark side of his fanbase.
What the heck is this guy watching on his montiors thats cringe
13:38 HEY LOOK ITS TOM FROM THE SONIC MOVIE
The gem on tails dolls head is the phantom ruby
Tails Doll ran so Sonic.exe could walk
quacker and bowen is what i remember being the origin/earliest tails doll curse website i looked at back when i was obsessed and drawing this thing a lot. i recognised that url and black webpage. i think that forum is definitely the origin of this fandom meme.
The Tails Doll weakness is sunshine
sonic racing was one of my favorite games as a kid
when i was a little kid in like 2009/2010 i remember i found a story lost in the old links that creeped me out at the time. It said that a Sega worker never had time to play with his son because he was working hard on the next game that was called Sonic R, and his son was pretty sad about it. So he gave him a tails doll, so he could play with it. However, his son started getting bullied at school because he would always be with the doll everywhere he went. One day, some kids hit him and started mocking him, hurting and bullying, etc. Suddenly, some lighting came out of the doll and the kids dropped dead. The son then went far away from there, since there were no witnesses. The kid went back home, the dad was working there, recording things about Sonic R on a CD. The game was already finished and he had to deliver it to Sega . The kid entered the room and stood there. His father told him to seat down while he was making the last recordings. He finished the CD, and as he was holding it, he took a look at his son. His eyes were empty-like, soulless. Then he looked at the doll and noticed something that he didn't notice it was there: a ruby gem glowing red connected above the doll's head. He then started panicking, tried to grab the doll from the kid, but he wouldn not let him go. Then the ruby started glowing too bright, and some lightning started coming out of the doll at his direction. As a last instance, the dad held the cd in front of him, what made the lighting revert back to the doll and his son. Then some strong scarlet flash came, and the dad was blinded for some time. Everything stopped then, and as the dust had settled, he looked at his son. He was laid at the floor, lifeless, and the doll was gone. He cried a lot, got desperate. After some time, he put the CD to run, and as he was looking at the unlockable characters, there it was: Tails Doll himself. The dad then coded a seal that would never let the doll get out of the CD, as he put the impossibility of Tails Doll managing to get Super Sonic at the tag game. But the doll wouldn't let that stop him. That's where the curse came from. A bit goofy, i know, but that was terrifying when i was a kid, and the night i read it i couldn't sleep lol. I was about 8 years old
cool video, love the deep dive history search
My biggest takeaway is that Sonic R has a plot. I never knew that lol
i think this is the first creepy pasta
lupus creepus is ballsy for doing all of these rituals and shit, mans did hide and seek by yourself
Yo I think I broke Miyamoto's seal, anyone got a copy of Shadow the Hedgehog soaked in Holy Water?
7:01 - 7:10 My favourite part
2:52 good video but this was tough
This shit right here literally made me lose the better half of my childhood sleep and I never played as tails again 😂😂
I'm still surprised that people found this thing actually scary. I thought it was just a joke.
I love tails doll also TD began because he looks to uncanny to be in a Sonic game so that's all I knew so the more you know
Schluuuuuummmmmmmpy!
0:30 OH HELL NO
I heard one fan of this curse later became a writer for SCP related stuff
this needs more views.
Absolute chad
great job!
Great video
Fourth
I'm watching this at 2am. 💀 The Tails Doll was the first creepypasta I ever came across, when I used to regular the Sonic GameFAQ boards in 2005 when I was like 12 and I used to have that pic of Tails Doll as my desktop wallpaper 😹👀 also i used to browse that Quackers site, they used to update a section with fan submitted Stories
“You gotta play Shadow the Hedgehog to ward off the curse!”
Me: no thanks man, I think I’ll just die.
I haven't seen these websites in years holy shit I'm not surprised most of them are gone
I remember hearing that Sega was concerned that the tails doll rumors were gunna hurt their sales of Sonic Gems collection
Thankfully Miyamoto placed that seal over it
Man this are some memories
So I can blame Quacker Duk for giving me months of anxiety as a 9 year old? The bastard.