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Hana Hyperfixates

@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social

Hana Ahmad is going fast | Ad astra per aspera | Non-binary Arab Palestinian | Grown-ass man | Extremely Low Tier YouTuber (they/them) https://www.youtube.com/@hanahyperfixates Literally brand new at this, so getting the hang of Bluesky!

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Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last mo.

Join me at Dashcon2 in Toronto on Aug. 1-2 for a meet-and-greet and for a panel on my fave fashion disaster, Shadow the Hedgehog! Meet and greet: Aug. 1st at 6 p.m. in the Heritage Court of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Center Panel: Aug. 2nd at 3:30 p.m. in Multi Room A-B

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Guys I finished this script, I am so fuckin happy

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 4mo ago

POV your fuckass brother shows up at your door at 2 a.m. #sonicfanart #sonicthehedgehog (i was having a good art day when i drew this)

fanart drawing of Sonic the hedgehog, slightly beat up, standing at an open door with a sheepish smile asking "i could crash here for the night, right tails?"

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New Video: The Feminine Horror of Shadow the Hedgehog Who will you become when you are told from birth that you exist for the consumption and control of others? LINK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsU6...

laura (comms open)@shardikart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

class is in session ,lets learn about the american dream

Hana Hyperfixates@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Over a year ago, I set out to make a short, straightforward, easy Gravity Falls video on The Book of Bill, and why it includes 6 pages of The Great Gatsby. I never made that video, but the monstrosity I DID make is LINKED BELOW!

paíge • comms/shop open @freshasketch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

i can't imagine how much work went into the details in this video it's actually insane hana's recent shadow vids have been some of my favorites on youtube but this one is next level (also alex hirsch cameos if you need more incentive to watch)

Hana Hyperfixates@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

HEY KIDS. IT'S TIME FOR SOMEONE TO LEARN A LESSON. OHW WKH JDPHV EHJLQ. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZ2...

You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Absolute FLEX in who they got as the professor lmaooooo

Hana Hyperfixates@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

HEY KIDS. IT'S TIME FOR SOMEONE TO LEARN A LESSON. OHW WKH JDPHV EHJLQ. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdZ2...

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tomorrow. Get ready, students. It's almost time for class. #gravityfalls #thebookofbill #billcipher

A glitchy cover of The Great Gatsby, corrupted and edited to make the title read: The Book of Bill

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ANOUNCEMENT! I'm coming to Phoenix! Can't catch me at Dashcon 2? No problem! I'll be running the same Shadow panel, along with my Gravity Falls Trivia panel, at Phoenix Fan Fusion! (You'll also probably catch me walking around. Say hi, but fair warning: I'm a yapper!) Con/Schedule details below!

A graphic showing details for Hana Hyperfixates panels at
Phoenix Fan Fusion in June.

Text reads: What should Shadow the Hedgehog wear to Pride? West 212A Anime | Friday June 5, 2026
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Shadow the Hedgehog has a long storied history of traits and symbolic associations with the queer community (yes, really!). Help YouTuber Hana Hyperfixates go through Shadow's metaphorical AND literal closet to rank which of Shadow's outfits/game skins would look best at Pride.

Gravity Falls Trivia Jeopardy
West 212BC Anime | Saturday June 6, 2026
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

How well do you know your Gravity Falls lore? Join Gravity Falls Youtuber Hana Hyperfixates and put your knowledge on the TV show, books, comics and show-development trivia to the test.

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🥳🥳🥳BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!🥳🥳🥳 I’m hosting a panel at DASHCON 2!🎉See me Sunday, Aug. 2, and hear me talk about Shadow the Hedgehog's gay lil mobile game skins (yes, including that cheetah print outfit). Hope to see some of you there!! Link below!! (1/2)

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW VIDEO! (Or a couple of days old, but I had the flu and forgot to promote) Maybe the real decade-long hyperfixation was the friends we made along the way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfD...

Gravity Falls, 10 years later | What it gave me

YouTube video by Hana Hyperfixates

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A good year for Sonic the Hedgehog and personal reflections as @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social looks at how Shadow the Hedgehog (the game and possibly the hedgehog?) were shaped by the reaction to 9/11 and how this impacted them growing up Arab in that climate

Shadow the Hedgehog and the War on Terror | A Video Essay

YouTube video by Hana Hyperfixates

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daily bunnies 🐇✨@dailybunnies.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A dark gray bunny lies on a soft, white surface. Four different hands point towards it, creating a star shape.

Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 10mo ago

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Things aren't always looking up for him. #ShadowTheHedgehog #SonicTheHedgehog

An illustration of Shadow the Hedgehog, looking up at a shattered full moon in a forest, surrounded by blue flowers. The sky is colored with nebulae and stars, and the perspective of the piece is a worm's eye view.

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Get in, losers. We're watching The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) to overanalyze the Halloween-event Sonic skin that has ruined my life. This isn't just a deep dive. It's a love letter. Link: youtu.be/7Z7AUfW4Ap8

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · 12mo ago

HEY HOLY SHIT To celebrate 30K subs, I am planning a Q+A video (to come out at some point after a couple of other vids). If you have any behind-the-scenes questions for me, let me know below!

Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴@brutumfulmen.bsky.social · last yr.

I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡

A review for a Little Caesar’s somewhere by Kevin S:

Stopped into this Little Caesars just trying to get a $6 pizza and ended up in a full on action movie. Just as I grabbed my order, this furious dude barges in yelling about how I cut him off in traffic earlier.
Before I can even respond, he throws a punch but then out of nowhere the guy behind the counter jumps over it like he's been waiting for this moment his whole life and just beats the living hell out of the guy. The guy ran off and the cashier just dusted himself off. I said "are you ok man" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "B*tch, this is Little Caesars. We always hot and ready."
Five stars. Will absolutely return.

That GF FAN @thatgffan.bsky.social · last yr.

Hard to believe it's been a year already. The Book of Bill was the first new #GravityFalls book in 6 years. It was a long wait but so worth it. Summer 2024 was unforgettable and a chapter in this show's life I'm so grateful to have been here to not only see but be a part of. 🔺👁️

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

You live like this? (Background illustration I've been tinkering with for a couple of days. Also, I do background art commissions: ko-fi.com/hanahyperfix...)

a digital painting of a bathroom mirror surrounded by rust-stained yellow tiles.

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

My husband brought my shadow plush to keep me company after my surgery (I had a massive kidney stone and my body is in hell)

Abby Denton @abbydenton.com · last yr.

This is a really good video!! I am impressed and a little concerned that this is one of the most evenhanded and sensitive discussions of American culture post-9/11 I've ever read including, like... Actual historical and anthropological analysis

Hana Hyperfixates@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) and the War on Terror | A Video Essay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybeC...

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

anyways, happy birthday to sonic the hedgehog

digital fanart of sonic the hedgehog doing a midair split with one hand pointing at the viewer. he has a smile on his face, and the scene is depicted in shades of magenta and blue

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

Guys my next video is so fucking weird but I'm having so much fun

rocío 🌧️🐞@frailfangs.butchsky.social · last yr.

this is a fantastic video that i would recommend you watch even if you don't know a lot about sonic as a franchise tbh. loved every bit of it

Hana Hyperfixates@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) and the War on Terror | A Video Essay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybeC...

BlackAutMedia (He/His)@blackautmedia.bsky.social · last yr.

@hanahyperfixates.bsky.social YouTube kept auto-deleting my comments. Thank you again for all the work and vulnerability you displayed in putting together a great discussion about Shadow the Hedgehog. I figured you might find it cool to have more lit that covers what you did.

Love that you made this. I was actually planning a video about the portrayal & relationship between disability/militarism in the Sonic series & you touch on many of the same points. Because of that, I have a bunch of additional context that can help give more support to your read of the games.

Alien invasion plots functionally serve the same purpose that "weapons of mass destruction" did for the US. It constructs a simple situation in which the US military is framed on the defensive against an unambiguous evil & because of the enemy's overwhelming power justifies the escalation of weaponry surveillance. It's why a lot of propaganda isn't "the police/military can do no wrong" it's "they can do things that are bad but it's ultimately a necessary evil for the greater good." I would suggest "National Security Cinema" because it talks about the way that many of the films, including several of the ones you mentioned or referenced in this video are straight up military or government funded & influenced. It's not really a new thing as I'm sure you're aware.

I'd even make the argument that SA2 is not anti-military. At worst, they're obstacles, but never framed as explicitly villainous even if I agree with you that they're the root cause. Looking at the game through a perspective of disability instead, the main conflict is set into motion by Gerald's insanity. The game relies on madness & constructs a disabled villain that ends up simplifying the narrative so that even though GUN is really responsible for this, the game instead relies on madness to explain why Gerald & by extension the biolizard are real threats.

The biolizard is a disabled villain. The most obvious detail is that it wears a life support system, but in the context of the game it's imagined as an inherently violent, dangerous creature that also is symbolic of Gerald's grief & loss of sanity.

You can also look at cop/military movies in the 80s (that were also military & government funded/influenced) like say the Dirty Harry movies that were produced in reaction to military spending & the war on drugs in the early 1970s. In one of the later films they do a similar argument where any kind of questioning or attempts at critique to the police are undermined by the introduction of a mentally disabled & thus inherently violent & mad villain.

In the war on terror, madness was one of the main ways they would help portray those labeled terrorists as evil. It wasn't just that we're dangerous but inherently irrational & thus must be contained & controlled. A lot of the author Jaspir Puar's work talks about this at length.

So while it pains me to say, I think especially given how closely Shadow's character is tied to disability, that Sonic Adventure 2 focuses more on madness & saneism than anti-policing & military, which is how so much of the rest of the series can also be so sympathetic to GUN as an institution.

It doesn't then surprise me that the Paramount Sonic films, (the same institution that donated a million dollars to Israel) not only had everything that went down in the trilogy films, but took the time to sit Knuckles down with a Krav Maga instructor, a FBI agent, & a cop to sympathize with them as people who train strong warriors.

This comment is going way too long, but Knuckles & his racialization going back as far as the first Sonic Adventure game ends up contributing a lot to GUN's military sympathies in the series as well. The first Sonic Adventure is essentially the vanishing myth & changes the lore of the chaos emeralds like that. Specifically the game changes the context where the chaos emeralds are now seized resources of the US military from a race of Afro-Maya Echidna who are framed as having brought their own genocide on themselves and proving themselves irresponsible wielders of their resources that in SA2 are now held by the US military.

In short, a lot of these media are a lot less neutral when you consider the decades of military funding & influence in the industry that helps shape these narratives & how further blurred it becomes when multiple politicians at the time would openly reference Jack Bauers as if he's a real person.

Your entire last section about the inherent suspicion toward Shadow also is something you might find valuable by reading the work of "The good Arab/Muslim" by Evelyn Alsultany. She writes about how a lot of propaganda media would use this trope where to counter the evil terrorist stereotype, they instead had a "good" Arab that still justified the inherent suspicion toward them like they did Shadow, but instead shows their sympathy is contingent on their serving the state. Shadow is still suspicious & that suspicion is framed as reasonable, but he can only express his heroism in serving the US military as a result. Alsultany would call it a simplified complex representation.

I deeply appreciate you sharing your experience at the end. I hate how common it is–I grew up in a similar environment–but it still means a lot to hear it shared and talked about.

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) and the War on Terror | A Video Essay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybeC...

Hana Hyperfixates @hanahyperfixates.bsky.social · last yr.

I have fewer followers here, so y'all get a sneak peak at my next video essay that im not posting to twitter or tumblr.