Zifei Wu, founder of this very website and SonicNEXT, is leaving Sonic fandom to venture into E-Commerce. Here are his last words posted on SN Monday:
You might be wondering why there’s been no updates for the last 20 days. Well, I had a lot to do in real life. And I had some time to set down and think.
I’ve been with the Sonic internet fandom since the early days. 1995 to be exact. Around that time, no one really cared to make a Sonic webpage any good. Rat.org was a good archive, but a terrible page. The Freedom Fighter Network showed that a good Sonic page could be done. So I went out to try to make a true Sonic page.
Zifei’s Sonic Page was a graphical disaster at first, what did I know? But it grew around the bases of original ideas, not copy and paste. When I founded Sonic HQ, I knew that it would turn in to something great. Because the staff and the fans were so positive in support.
Well, the summary of the story is that my work is done with the Sonic internet fandom. It has matured from the early crappy pages into mega hit pages. I am no longer needed to advanced the fandom just for the reason other poeple such as Kedzie-K, WB, Total Neon, Tristan, Rlan, and others are doing just that.
I’m heading into e-commerce in a company I’m forming called Internext. I’m also making a Ender’s Game webpage called IFHQ. Oh yeah, I just found out John Weeks, the great midi maker happens to goto the same school I goto (which is White Station High School in Memphis, TN), I need to catch him sometimes in the halls.
My position as owner of SonicNEXT will be transfered to Jonathan Lazor (Vector). All the hosted pages will not be affected by any of this.
…Goodbye, Sonic, Sonic fans, and others. For the last time, this is Zifei Wu reporting.
We wish Zifei the best of luck in his new projects; we hope that he brings as much magic and creativity to those as he did with Sonic HQ and SonicNEXT.