Sonic was designed to be recognized. He’s a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who works in a primarily visual medium.
While Shakespeare excelled with the written word, I doubt he could crouch down and rotate his body more than a few dozen RPM without getting dizzy and needing a lie down or whatever British people do when they get overwhelmed.
As there are exactly zero images of Shakespeare that can be considered genuine, it would be a miracle if anyone would recognize him. Some people might recognize the one or other portrait with debatable relation to him, that’s it.
The post is probably referring to his works.
This is “Mario is more recognisable than Mickey Mouse” all over again lol
Well, Shakespeare is known for his writing. Do you know every face of every writer you like? Sonic is a character, not a writer. Weird comparison.
Glad I’m not the only one. I was just thinking, “I have no idea what Shakespeare looks like,” other than the caricature of him they do in TV shows.
The only way I recognize Shakespeare as Shakespeare is the giant collars he wears that seem to be in every picture of him.
You’re thinking of Lil’ Nas X.
The only author whose face I would reliably recognise would be Rowling, and that’s because she’s constantly in the news for being a hateful Terf. I haven’t read any of her books.
I’d probably recognise Pratchett as well.
But yes, I’m not sure what you’d expect.
Not sure I’d recognize Rowling outside of context, but I’d definitely recognize George R. R. Martin, despite never having read or watched anything he’s made. He’s got a very distinct look.
Well he does look like a writer. If you just saw him in the street and didn’t otherwise know who he was your general assumption would be that he was some kind of writer or artist.
He really does, now that you mention it.
You’d probably recognize Steven King also, but yeah the list is extremely small for everyone
You never know for sure if its King or Koontz tho.
I’d recognise Poe, Pratchett as long as he had his hat, probably A. C. Clarke. There might be more, but that’s about everyone I can think of right now.
I googled Asimov and that’s a very distinct look, but I can’t say I recall ever seeing him before.
Everyone mentioned so far is also a recent writer who actually has photographs available.
Is there any photograph available from Shakespeare? I am a bit oblivious now when that technology started and if Shakespeare had access to it. Otherwise there are only drawings available and I think we all have seen how different the same person can look on historic documents.
There are no photographs of Shakespeare. He lived way before the invention of photography.
As far as I understand there is a painting that might be of him, but it’s difficult because it doesn’t say “this is a painting of Shakespeare” on the bottom. It’s just a painting of a random man who probably was Shakespeare, but we don’t have proof.
Even if the painting is of him we are assuming that it’s an accurate painting.
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Idk, I don’t think most people would be able to name him if they were shown his picture without context
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Forsooth I bite my thumb at thee.
So, Lion King…
I think my first memories of seeing Shakespeare’s face was on a credit card hologram? The only image I can find is this:
But maybe it’s a false memory.
Looks like a bird to me…
… Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Typical gen z! 🙄
Jk
“The younger generation recognizes 100+ Pokémon but almost no domestic bird. “
Yeah, most birds don’t spout their own name constantly though. Imagine a dove yelling “Dove! Dove!” while shitting on your head.
Pretty much every native NZ bird is named after the sound it makes.
Even the Puteketeke, New Zealand’s Bird of The Century?
First (& very common) bird I looked up seems to be the exception?
Fantail / pīwakawaka Known for its friendly ‘cheet cheet’ call and energetic flying antics, the fantail is one of the most common and widely distributed native birds on the New Zealand mainland.
Yeah but they have a tail which looks like a fan. Not the same but also quite a descriptive name.
I think the majority of animals have descriptive names. However the discussion isn’t even in the vicinity of whether the names are descriptive.
In addition to all the other comments on how this is just Gen A hating on Gen A+1, it’s pretty easy to miss possibly the biggest reason Sonic stands out: he’s fucking BLUE
Ngl I like this. A+1. Now do we go B+1 and continue from there or A+[1-255] first?
Only until A+F, it’s obviously hexadecimal.
Also those new movies were a lot more fun than they had any right to be.
Time to make a really bangin’ Shakespeare video game.
It should be a strand-type game.
Yeah, that’ll really capture the young audience.
Did you know it’s an entire genre, originally invented by the inventor of the strand genre as a genre for his game that he also invented, a strand game called death stranding which is the original strand game and idea. It is also the only strand game ever invented in strand games genre and you do things like sneak and watch cutscenes like in all other games in the tactical espionage action genre that he also invented but also use asynchronous buggy online crafting to make roads and sometimes see other people’s roads which is just brilliant just entirely brilliant, a genius of immense vastitude and inventor that can invent new entire genres on an afternoon when he is bored but he is also busy and intelligent
We have a handful of portraits of one, and hours of animated material of the other. Who do you think gets looked at more? If that survey was actually conducted that was a huge waste of time.
*quits phd*
Realistically, is that a bad thing? Who cares what he looked like. Plenty of people don’t recognize people like Socrates, DaVinci, etc. does it matter if people can recognize them?
DaVinci
That’s a weird way of spelling Dewinky.
Holy shit, people are more aware of things relevant to the time they live in and the things they actively take part in than things from literally hundreds of years ago that are difficult to establish as relevant in a modern society because it has no tangible relevance to the current era?! THE CHILDREN ARE DAMNED!
Seriously, is there anything more to these lines of thought than a fear of being outdated?
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*Klingon
It really is a shame that Shakespeare’s works were never translated.
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Native speakers of modern versions of English don’t initially have a great grasp of the English used in Shakespeare’s texts either. It takes a little extra focusing and effort to get a grip on for even the smartest Shakespeare newbies.
I remember when the same was said about millenials except the comparison was between Ronald Mcdonald and Jesus/George Washington.
Is this purely a visual comparison of appearance or also work like “to be or not to be”
Or did they simply ask. “Do you know who x is” and take peoples word for it if they say yes.
If you dug up shakespeare, I wouldn’t recognize him either and I’m a millennial.
I can’t remember there was a Shakespeare videogame. But I played Sonic The Hedgehog from it’s first releases.
I guess I haven’t missed something.
